Gardening in the Tropics Literary Elements

The poem ‘’Brief Lives’’ is told

The poems are written in a modern style and thus there is no form and meter which we can analyze in the poems.

The pig is used in the poem ‘’The Tree of Life’’ as a metaphor to suggest the ruling class. Through this metaphor, the narrator wanted to transmits the idea that the ruling class only wants to take care of itself and that, in reality, they do not care for those below them from the perspective of a third person objective point of view who watches from afar the injustices which take place into his own country. who are more than often suffering.

We find an alliteration in the poem ‘’The Immovable Tenant’’ in the line "It's no joke, for once or twice’’.

An ironical element is presented in the poem ‘’The Tree of Life’’ where humans, upon noticing that the Pig was hiding something from them, sent another animal, the Rat, to find out his secret. Ironically, the one who was sent to find out the secret began to keep the truth from the humans as well, trying to keep all the food for himself.

Most of the poems starts as narrative poems, presenting the lives of various people or in some poems, such as in ‘’The Tree of Life’’ and ‘’Amazon Women’’ present some mythological story and then they evolve to being meditative poems.

The action in the poem ‘’The Immovable Tenant’’ takes place in the building where the narrator was living. The time when the action takes place remains unknown.

The tone in the poem ‘’Amazon Women’’ is one that transmits wonder and transports the reader into a land where everything is possible.

The protagonists in the poem ‘’Amazon Women’’ are the women, both fictional and the real women presented in the poem, and the antagonists are the men trying to suppress them.

The major conflict in the poem ‘’Tropical Love’’ is between the woman in the poem and her partner or husband who stopped taking care of the family as he should have.

The poem ‘’The Immovable Tenant’’ reaches its climax when the narrator decides to join forces with the oppressive tenant instead of working against him.

In the poem ‘’Brief Lives’’, the narrator starts the poem with the sentence ‘’you never know what you’ll turn up’’, making reference to the skeletons one might dug up without even realizing. This sentence also foreshadows the frequent reference made to the skeletons discovered by the various characters in the poem

One of the understatement in the poem ‘’The Immovable Tenant’’ is that the man who bought the apartment from the old lady and who tried to buy other apartments form other people had their best interest at heart and that they did not want to steal and cheat them.

One of the allusions made in the poem ‘’Amazon Women’’ is that European and American women are much weaker than the Caribbean women who took over the jobs previously done by when they left for war or died. This is alluded by the fact that many European men who visited the Caribbean islands were surprised to see women perform duties associated with men.

In the poem ‘’The Immovable Tenant’’, the narrator claims that one man came and bought everything around their building, including the air they breathe. The term ‘’air’’ is used in this context in a general way to suggest to complete control the man had over everything in the area.

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We find a hyperbole in the line ‘’My heart had turned to stone’’ in the poem ‘’Love in the Tropics’’.

We find an onomatopoeia in the line "screaming at his tenants and everyone within hearing’’ in the poem "The Immovable Tenant’’.