Comparing Immigration Experiences

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Fajer A.                Saturday, 13th December 2008

IMMIGRATION                Word Count: 889

COMPARING IMMIGRATION EXPERIENCES

Many wrote about the issue of immigration; some were immigrants themselves, others were against immigration and are frustrated about illegal immigration. In this essay I will discuss different immigration experiences in Britain.

        An immigrant poet called Linton Kwesi Johnson wrote a poem describing an immigrants’ party named 'Dread Beat an Blood’. The poem starts with the phrase “brothers and sisters rocking”, Johnson does not mean genetic brothers and sisters but he means extremely close friends enjoying music. He then mentions “pulsing fire, burning” which demonstrates smoking weed. In addition, those friends gather and have a “chocolate hour” in the “darkness” of the night. Smoking weed occurred in a “small hall“ in a house when it was “soaked in smoke”.  Till now, the friends are gathered having fun, listening to music and smoking weed. They then continue to do this stuff in addition to fighting which results in “blood” and “bleeding out”. There is a “red bulb” hung on the ceiling of the hall. The colour red connotes to many things and could be signifying anger and aggression. Therefore, when the friends, or brothers and sisters look at the red light they feel anger which result in continuous “brewing”.  When they smoke weed, “ganja”, till a point where it begins “creeping to the brain” resulting in hurt and annoyance when seeing “cold lights”. The routine continues of fighting and “blood, bitterness” then smoking weed and “exploding fire” then again “wailing blood and bleeding”. In conclusion, the friends which have a relationship like a relation of brothers and sisters gather in the middle of the night in a house and party listening to music and smoking ganja. Due to over taking weed, they began to fight and bleed and get frustrated from cold lights.

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        Another black immigrant poet named B. Parthasarathy wrote a poem about his feelings when he first arrived to Britain and how they have changed during time. This poem is called ‘A Northern City’. He starts the poem with describing the city with its suburban “pockets bursting with immigrants” indicating that this city is overloaded with immigrants. By using the term “busting”, he highlights that the city is crowded or perhaps over-crowded with what British call “coloureds”. He also states that the city is “no jewel. But ugly and wet” which suggests that he did not migrate to that city to ...

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