I Am Tourist
The poem “ I Am Tourist” addresses the concept of a tourist during a holiday. This poem is read to be more personal to the reader as it is written in first person and we can all personally relate to this poem through past experiences as we have all either encountered a tourist of we have ventured on holiday as a tourist ourselves. In order to portray this effect in the poem, Our author has clearly investigated literary devices such as humoristic devices but also creating imagery of the tourists surroundings to stress this overall effect. I personally feel that the author has done this through irony and his own personal touristic experiences.
The title and the first line state: “I am a tourist”, this is again repeated throughout …show more content…
We can tell the our protagonist is on a flight to a destination since there is a mention of the “Burt Reynolds movies” which probably were the present entertainment at the time on the plane. It is also implied that the tourist is either in business or first class stated in the poem: “across the seas with a cold glass in my hand” which sounds like he received a complimentary drink on his flight. A rhyme is composed in the following lines: “With my Chocolate-coloured spectacles” and “my blue travellers checktakles”. Here there is the first physical description of the protagonist in the poem and he is described as a typical tourist (accompanied by his purring …show more content…
The poem contains huge contrast between the Tourist at the beginning who has a very upbeat and adventurous attitude to travelling and then the very relaxed and lethargic tourist who is quite happy to investigate the bar and lounge by the poolside. However when you are on holiday there is freedom to do what you please and this is shown, not only by the choice the couple make at the end of the poem but also y the overall structure of the poem that symbolises the lack of structure one had on holiday and the freedom to do whatever you so wish to do. This is particularly obvious towards at the end of the end since there is no full stop or punctuation of any kind which I believe shows that this is an ongoing occurrence when a tourist such as this one going on
The poem “ I Am Tourist” addresses the concept of a tourist during a holiday. This poem is read to be more personal to the reader as it is written in first person and we can all personally relate to this poem through past experiences as we have all either encountered a tourist of we have ventured on holiday as a tourist ourselves. In order to portray this effect in the poem, Our author has clearly investigated literary devices such as humoristic devices but also creating imagery of the tourists surroundings to stress this overall effect. I personally feel that the author has done this through irony and his own personal touristic experiences.
The title and the first line state: “I am a tourist”, this is again repeated throughout …show more content…
We can tell the our protagonist is on a flight to a destination since there is a mention of the “Burt Reynolds movies” which probably were the present entertainment at the time on the plane. It is also implied that the tourist is either in business or first class stated in the poem: “across the seas with a cold glass in my hand” which sounds like he received a complimentary drink on his flight. A rhyme is composed in the following lines: “With my Chocolate-coloured spectacles” and “my blue travellers checktakles”. Here there is the first physical description of the protagonist in the poem and he is described as a typical tourist (accompanied by his purring …show more content…
The poem contains huge contrast between the Tourist at the beginning who has a very upbeat and adventurous attitude to travelling and then the very relaxed and lethargic tourist who is quite happy to investigate the bar and lounge by the poolside. However when you are on holiday there is freedom to do what you please and this is shown, not only by the choice the couple make at the end of the poem but also y the overall structure of the poem that symbolises the lack of structure one had on holiday and the freedom to do whatever you so wish to do. This is particularly obvious towards at the end of the end since there is no full stop or punctuation of any kind which I believe shows that this is an ongoing occurrence when a tourist such as this one going on