Compare And Contrast Half Cast And Island Man

Half-cast and island man

In the half-cast poem by John starts he starts apologizing to the reader for being half-cast, which is very ironic because what he is trying to explain in his poem is how angry and frustrated with the term half-cast. He finds it very disrespectful and with nonsense when people uses this term to describe him. When he talks about “I half-caste human being
cast half-a-shadow
but yu must come back tomorrow
wid de whole of yu eye
an de whole of yu ear
an de whole of yu mind” is saying that he feels that when people use this term is like saying he doesn’t exist, that being half-caste is nothing human or pure, John invites the readers to be open minded and change the way people see him. In the other hand in the island man
In the other hand Grace Nichols in the island man he talks about a situation of a man that dreams of a place where he dose not longer live in it, but wants to be in there because it brings him peace, he feels that’s where he belong, but the reality hit him and shows him the he does not longer live in that place and find it tedious to live in London and addresses it as “another London day”. In one poem a man wants to fit in the new society and the other want’s to go back were he used to