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Lorna Goodison's Road of the Dread Analysis
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  • Caribbean Poetry
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  • University Of The West Indies

These poems by Lorna Goodison have been dissected and analized in order to obtain understand the themes carefully woven into their words. These analyses have also landed several students on the regional and territorial Caribbean Merit list for CAPE examinations

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  • December 13, 2019
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  • 2015/2016
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  • english literature poetry english poetry caribbean poetry lorna goodison

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  • University of the West Indies
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Another free verse contemporary poem centred on the themes of:
 Power of Femininity
 Religion
 Embracing of one’s culture
 Sexuality
Written during of the late 80’s, early 90’s, an era of recognising women’s
rights and furthering steps toward gender equality. In such a small space of
time, there was the Miner’s strike, the Women’s against PA Closures,
Abortion Rights and more Black women running for Congress than ever
before.

Structure
 The poem is written in Free Verse, meaning there is no set rhythm or metre.
It varies in length, from a single line to a cinquain. This offers a more natural
tone to the poem, lending to the use of Voice;

 The spacing; the line break; of the stanzas creates white space, used to single
out or to emphasise specific lines. It also adds to the visual form of the
poem, on resembling a person expressing their opinion;

 Punctuation, is abundant in this poem, also highlighting specific lines in
conjunction with other devices with this purpose and offering a much more
conversational tone to the poem.


Literary Devices
 Metaphor/ Allusion: “You with poodle and John Crow covers about you,
recognise them!”
Here Lorna calls out to fellow Afro-Caribbean people, to an extent the entire
Black race to remove these “John Crow” laws from themselves. Laws that
mandated the segregation of schools, public places, transport, restrooms
even fountains. Rules that limited and dehumanized black people. John

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