Look We Have Coming to Dover!

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Even more intriguing is that this poem was published in 2007, almost a decade before the European Migration Crisis and numerous migrant controversies around the world and in the UK.

Conflict: As a result of these societal, cultural and identity differences, it is easy to see how there is potential for conflict as different groups and different ideologies are merged into this one poem. A similar technique is the use of British references and imagery to juxtapose with the non-English words and ideas. This device of creating words to convey meaning, for example ‘lash’ and ‘brunt’ used as adjectives, or ‘phlegmed’ and ‘prow’d’ as verbs created from nouns, is known as anthimeria. The list of words and phrases in this stanza goes on for a few lines as the speaker elaborates on their way of being in England.The use of non English words is an intriguing way in which Nagra can be seen to be critical of anti-immigration ideas and sentiments, demonstrating how English has naturally evolved to incorporate words from other languages. It wants to be fun but it just comes off as foolish, and I was left asking why I paid for someone else's indulgence. While some choices of language and structure may be challenging for students, the variety of techniques enables a whole range of comparisons, and the themes and meaning are still likely to be understood by most students. Modern Britain is scarred by hostility to immigrants and even the thunder ‘unbladders/yobbish rain’, like the yobs who will attack them. The immigrants maintain their culture throughout the poem, even in the dream future they still keep their language in the safety of their middle-class homes.

This also enables a broad range of interesting comparative points with other poems from the ‘Poems of the Decade’ collection.The poem is a dramatic monologue, the voice that of the poet, using the first person plural ‘we’ and in the last stanza ‘I’. This includes phrases such as “diesel-breeze” which alludes to pollution and environmental damage as a result of travelling, and harsh and unpleasant industry-heavy areas. It is scary, employed by the speaker to show how those in England would view the immigrants coming to their country.

We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. is a poem by Daljit Nagra which considers immigration to the United Kingdom and the development of cultures as they mix and merge in different countries. Home to William Golding, Sylvia Plath, Kazuo Ishiguro, Sally Rooney, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Max Porter, Ingrid Persaud, Anna Burns and Rachel Cusk, among many others, Faber is proud to publish some of the greatest novelists from the early twentieth century to today. One interpretation of the specific use of five could be as a reference to the ‘five oceans’ of the world, which have all proved vital to traditional movement and travel over the centuries.He speaks -- or rather, his characters speak -- in a whole variety of voices: teenage Jaswinder who wishes she was black and chilled, querulous Kabba laying into his son's English teacher ('my boy, vil he tink ebry new/Barrett-home Muslim hav goat blood-party/barbeque?

Once again there is another light-hearted phrase within the poem to contrast with the more serious issues being raised, helping to present people as normal and approachable to a reader. Nagra, whose own parents came to England from the Punjab in the 1950s, draws on both English and Indian-English traditions to tell stories of alienation, assimilation, aspiration and love, from a stowaway’s first footprint on Dover Beach to the disenchantment of subsequent generations. It is white, indistinguishable from other similar vehicles and likely the perfect on land camouflage. This could therefore be interpreted as a criticism of those who are see immigration as hugely detrimental or even dangerous. However, this is juxtaposed with the idea of being “stowed” and hidden away unnoticed, with it unlikely for people to be able to invade a country with no supplies.When they finally make it to shore they drive off in an inconspicuous van and try to make lives for themselves. It is a hard life they are living as they are stuck between the dark spotlight of night and the hope of the sun.