V. S. Naipaul Poem Analysis

“If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.” This is German-born poet Rainer Maria Riike, quote on society’s lack of appreciation for nature. Nobel Prize winner V.S. Naipaul is a Trinidadian author who won the award for literature in the year 2001, he was born Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul in Chaguanas in the year 1932. As a teenager he attended the Queen’s Royal College in Port of Spain where he was awarded with a Government Scholarship to attend any university in England in which he chose, Oxford University. Some years later he migrated to England where we got married and began his career in writing. Miguel Street; a collection …show more content…
Naipaul used language as a device to identify with his audience, he used vernacular in the dialogue and story to differentiate the narrator from the poet, when the boy speaks in the dialogue his dialect gave the impression that he was not well educated, for reference, when Wordsworth told the boy that he is a poet, the boy responded “you really think I is a poet?” but in the actual narration of the story the boy spoke in a mature nature. B. Wordsworth spoke as though he was an educated Englishman which only made the boy more intrigued but his mother cautious. The narrator said, “His English was so good it didn’t sound natural, and I could see that my mother was worried,” (Naipaul) The author also employed a literary device in the naming of the poet, Black Wordsworth the name is an allusion to the poet William Wordsworth. This ironic play on words is used to further imply that B. Wordsworth was as true a poet as his namesake. Imagery is also used to depict the beauty of the …show more content…
Wordsworth, even though his mother disapproved, they secretly met to converse as poets. B. Wordsworth is a symbol of nature, which speaks poetry to him. Naipaul used the literary devices of language, allusion, irony and imagery. The narrator learned to appreciate nature and the value of life in the lessons by Wordsworth. In the work, Naipaul employs the character B. Wordsworth to motivate the reader slow down, to stop and see the poetry of the world, to search deeper within to experience the beauty that exists beyond the uncertainty of life. Through the authors work the reader becomes aware of the lack of admiration for the world that the Lord made. Through this story I reminded to stop and smell the roses, to live like there is no tomorrow because life can be