colonization in reverse

• 'colonization in reverse', ironic title no comparison between the oppressive, brutal way that the British Empire colonized Jamaica, Jamaica was invited to come.
• 'ah feel like me heart gwine burs.' - exaggeration and simile, joyful for new opportunities.
• 'Englan in reverse'- ironic?- mocking-> teasing tone

  metaphor? revenge?
• 'by de hundred, by de tousan from country an from town, by de ship-load, by de plane-load Jamaica is Englan boun.' Personification- cautious tone? listing- sense of entusiasm.
• 'pour out a Jamaica;'- metaphor/verb- Jamaican people and culture spreads- enthusiastic?
• 'an settle in de motherlan.' -> ironic -> is England the mother of Jamaica?
• 'what an islan! what a people'- exclamative sentences, powerful emotion, is it real?
• 'a tun history upside dung!' - metaphor, reversing history.
• 'Dem countryman like fire'- simile, flames that will ignite England. However, also symbol of danger.
• 'de seat a de Empire.'- ironic metaphor, not an empire anymore- sarcastic? -> barbed comment?
• 'oonoo se how life is funny, oonoo see de tunabout?- cheerful tone/ rhetorical question-> do you see how life is funny.
• 'Jamaica live fi box bread out a English people mout.' -> ironic personification, taking bread out of English people's mouths.
• 'some will settle down to work, an some will settle fi de dole.' - unemployment benefits, some decide to not find a job as its 'free money'.
• 'dat suit her dignity'- powerful noun- matches her self respect.
• 'for all day she stay pon Aunt Fan couch.'- irony?- wealthy coloniser exploited Jamaica in the past.
• 'what a devilment a Englan'- connotations of devil?- evil? (means goodness me England!)- exclamative sentence.
• 'but ah wonderin how dem gwine stan colonizin in reverse'- cautious fear for the future - contrast/change of tone.

  Unknowingly foreshadows windrush(generation)events.