Unknown Girl And Electricity Comes To C
Explore the ways the poets present a particular event in ‘An Unknown Girl and ‘Electricity Comes to Cocoa Bottom’
The two poems “An Unknown Girl” and “Electricity Comes to Cocoa Bottom have both similarities and differences. An Unknown Girl is about Moniza Alvi who is in India and is getting her hand decorated by henna by an unknown girl in a bazaar in India. Electricity Comes to Cocoa Bottom is about electricity coming to a Caribbean village, which does not have modern technology.
The poem An Unknown Girl starts with a description of the setting. Moniza Alvi uses many metaphors to describe the scene. ‘In the evening bazaar studded with neon.’ The phrase ‘evening bazaar’ makes India seem is exotic and different as bazaars do not exist in the ‘West’ The word ‘studded’ suggests the marketplace is colourful and there are many colours to see. We can imagine the bazaar studded with neon lights. Moniza Alvi then uses a metaphor to describe the colours in the bazaar where she is sat. ‘Colours leave the street and float up in balloons.’ This metaphor shows to us that the bazaar is full with different colours and the colours are flying around her. This imagery vividly describes the scene for the readers. Moniza Alvi also describe at bit more of the scene later on in the poem ‘Now the furious streets are hushed.’ This tells us that normally the streets in India are rushed and excited but now it is gentle and calm.
In Electricity Comes to Cocoa Bottom Marcia Douglas describes the setting of the poem very vividly. She emphasizes light in her description ‘Watching the sky turn yellow, orange. ’ The children are so curious and expectant of the electricity that they are watching the beautiful sky. This description builds a very good image in the readers mind. ‘The kling-klings swooped down from the hills, congregating in the orange trees.’ This makes the Carribean island seem exotic with ‘kling-klings’ and ‘orange trees’. Marcia Douglas makes Cocoa Bottom seem glamorous and
The two poems “An Unknown Girl” and “Electricity Comes to Cocoa Bottom have both similarities and differences. An Unknown Girl is about Moniza Alvi who is in India and is getting her hand decorated by henna by an unknown girl in a bazaar in India. Electricity Comes to Cocoa Bottom is about electricity coming to a Caribbean village, which does not have modern technology.
The poem An Unknown Girl starts with a description of the setting. Moniza Alvi uses many metaphors to describe the scene. ‘In the evening bazaar studded with neon.’ The phrase ‘evening bazaar’ makes India seem is exotic and different as bazaars do not exist in the ‘West’ The word ‘studded’ suggests the marketplace is colourful and there are many colours to see. We can imagine the bazaar studded with neon lights. Moniza Alvi then uses a metaphor to describe the colours in the bazaar where she is sat. ‘Colours leave the street and float up in balloons.’ This metaphor shows to us that the bazaar is full with different colours and the colours are flying around her. This imagery vividly describes the scene for the readers. Moniza Alvi also describe at bit more of the scene later on in the poem ‘Now the furious streets are hushed.’ This tells us that normally the streets in India are rushed and excited but now it is gentle and calm.
In Electricity Comes to Cocoa Bottom Marcia Douglas describes the setting of the poem very vividly. She emphasizes light in her description ‘Watching the sky turn yellow, orange. ’ The children are so curious and expectant of the electricity that they are watching the beautiful sky. This description builds a very good image in the readers mind. ‘The kling-klings swooped down from the hills, congregating in the orange trees.’ This makes the Carribean island seem exotic with ‘kling-klings’ and ‘orange trees’. Marcia Douglas makes Cocoa Bottom seem glamorous and