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• context

  Grace Nichols

  born in Guyana > move to capital while it gained independence> moved to england at 27

  speaks about police brutality / gender / climate change

  themes- heritage / vulnerability / climate change / nature

  links - homing / name journeys
• "used car tyres, plastic bottles, Styrofoam cups / rightly tossed back by the oceans mood swings"

  mp - speaker talks about rubbish on seashore

  asyndetic list - no end to amount of rubbish / too late to fix / becomes overwhelming for speaker to see home like this

  personification - "tossed" - disgust, unworthy / beautiful thing shouldn't be treated like this

  noun phrase "mood swings" - unpredictable / emotional / ocean did this to protect
• "heading back like a tourist to the sanctuary of my hotel room"

  mp -speaker in disbelief of her island + heads back

  simile - drastic change / unfamilar / outsider / not involved in culture

  noun "sanctuary" - island is unsafe / uncomfortable for her

  sense of belonging - Nchols lost belonging as island is overwhelming
• "dwell in the air conditioned coolness on the quickening years and fate of our planet"

  mp - speaker loses hope

  alliteration - speeds up speech, reflecting us destroying the planet / using AC shows she isn't used to heat of her home town > unfamiliar

  noun "fate" - inescapable / bring warning

  possessive determiner "our" - our planet, we should help , reader feels involved , emphasises how bad this can be