The Caribbean Sea Essay Example

The Caribbean Sea Paper Compare and contrast these two poems, explaining their effect on you:Windjammer by A. L Hendriks and The Fringe of the Sea by Paul Keens Douglas Both these poems, as their titles suggest, are about the sea. Windjammer by A. L Hendriks is written in Caribbean dialect, the narrator is on board a boat in the Caribbean Sea. He seems to hate the rough sea An ah wish to god ah did stay home. The Fringe of the Sea by Paul Keens Douglas is written in Standard English. The narrator is idealising the sea and he seems to love the sleek and decorous Caribbean Sea. Each poem creates vivid images and clever mind pictures. In the first poem you get the impression of a scared, self-piteous man, swaying, green-faced, on a rickety, smelly, fishing boat and Dem seasick pills dont work neither This is a great contrast to the second poem. Here you get the impression of a lazy, carefree man barearmed, barefoot, bareheaded able to saunter aimlessly beside a serene, resplendent sea. The form of the two poems is completely different.