Jackie Kay Essay (student paper)
Here's a smart and capable response from one of your fellow classmates. I thought you might enjoy the read :-) Jackie Kay Choose between 1-3 themes explored in Jackie Kay’s poetry. How does she engage her reader to think about these themes ? All throughout Jackie Kay’s collection of poems « Life Mask », she explores various themes and engage her reader to think about them. Jackie Kay published a variety of beautiful collections of poems and « Life Mask » is one of them. In this collection she particularly explores the themes of nature, love and aging which are key themes in all her work. First of all, Jackie Kay uses the theme of nature to describe the gorgeous African landscape and biodiversity which brightens her poems but can also make them more profound and raw. Nature is particularly explored in the poem « Life Mask » with animal and floral imagery. Firstly, the animal, « an earful of birdsongs » creates auditive imagery and engages us to think about