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Look, We Have Coming To Dover! (Title (Epigraph. (taken from Matthew…
Look, We Have Coming To Dover!
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Symbols and images.
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Parallelism.
"swarms of us" refers to David Cameron's description of immigrants entering the UK - this is the government's voice in the poem.
Sound and phonology.
"Gobful of surf phlegmed by cushy, come-and-go".
colloquialisms (informal words) and neologisms (newly coined words not yet commonly used). This language technique allows us to show the foreignity of the speaker and the influences he has taken from multiple different places in the country.
"phlegmed" shows how speaker has turned a noun into a verb which emphasises their inability to speak fluent English and that it is their second language.
Rhyme.
odd rhythm and erratic (unpredictable) rhyme scheme with the addition of neologisms could mirror the experience of the immigrants: in a place where societal traditions are important but are confusing to them.
Semantic field.
"burdened" "ennobled" have negative connotations suggesting they have the feeling of a heavy weight on their backs as they try their best to live a normal life in a place they have no knowledge about.
however, their feelings of ambition and new opportunities outweigh their feelings of the "heavy weight".
Tone and mood.
speaker speaks in such a way that it emits feelings of hardship and poverty, both explicitly and implicitly.
unlike the"cushy" tourists, the narrator and all the immigrants have very little choice and power of the lives they can lead, both physically and financially.
use of word such as "huddles" "hutched" "burdened" "grafting" show they are hidden out of sight and stay away from the attention from the people already living in the UK.
despite the overwhelming odds that the country has set out against them, they still believe there is a chance of attaining a future where they are successful, safe and leading a good life.
Verb and tenses.
there are many colloquialisms: "gobfuls" "scramming" "hoick" "lingoes" form joyful hybrids of words that mirror the mixture of multiple different cultures with a funny effect on the reader. the funny effect it produces show the blind optimism of the immigrants.
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