Look We Have Coming to Dover!

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Its rhythmical, phonetic delicacies offer a colourful insight into British-Asian culture and are an inspiration to read.

We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. There is no consistent rhyme or rhythm scheme in the text but the patterning of the lines is similar and a reader can find structure through the images used by Nagra. Intriguingly, a reader today may find this line even more notable than in 2007 (the year in which the poem was published) due to former Prime Minister David Cameron’s description of migrants crossing the Mediterranean as a “swarm”. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.There is also frequent use of commas and hyphens throughout the poem, which may represent the idea of diversity and change within society due to the frequent use of these different types of punctuation.

Descriptions such as “swarms” take individuality out of those coming to the country, showing how identity can easily be removed and stereotypes applied. Nagra’s poem reflects the themes of Arnold’s poem, written a hundred years ago, where the he imagines the conflict and chaos that might result if the there was no religious basis to our society. is a great example of how poems can share so many ideas and thoughts regarding key contemporary events and issues within society. Some readers may also interpret the less even structure as reminding them of their own experience with foreign languages, in which those who are less practiced may struggle to have an even and regular flow of conversation.They can be seen from the start with the contrast between the arrival of the immigrant and the presence of the tourists. They could one day have “beeswax’d cars” and clothes, symbols of their freedom from the oppressive eye of the law. Tagged with Conflict, Daljit Nagra, Edexcel, English, English Literature, Identity, Look We Have Coming to Dover! The use of words from a variety of languages and origins is an important way in which the merging of cultures is shown, while the structure can be seen to represent cultural cycles.