Compare Neighbours and One Other Poem in Place - 889 Words

Compare the ways poets show the relationship between people and places in â€Å"Neighbours† and in one other poem from place. In the poem neighbours by Gillian Clarke, the narrator reflects on the effects of the Chernobyl disaster. At first she begins pessimistically describing the widespread damage, but then goes on to say how it made people come together to become â€Å"neighbours† ,ending the poem in a more hopeful note. In â€Å"Price we pay for the sun† by Grace Nichols, the narrator also starts pessimistically by challenging the stereotypical view tourists have of the islands. In comparison the narrator ends the poem in a more serious note by expanding on the poems title-poverty is the price paid by the islanders for the sun. In Neighbours,†¦show more content†¦She also uses enjambment between lines 9 and 10 which suggests that the poet’s thoughts might be disturbed or agitated. Conversely, Price we pay for the sun is written in three stanzas with three distinct ideas. It has short lines with non-standard grammar and not much punctuation; this makes it sound like the speech on the islands. There’s some rhyme but its irregular perhaps this shows the irregular thought of the tourists seeing islands as a place of haven instead of thinking about what really happens behind closed doors. In conclusion, both poems use form and language to portray the relationship between the people and the places in them, but while the price we pay for the sun ends negatively, neighbours ends with a more hopeful note towards the people. I enjoyed both poems. Neighbours is very effective in conveying the relationship between the people and the place by using innocence as an image of the people and contrasting it with the after effects of the Chernobyl Disaster. 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