Answer:
In the poem 'Point of View' by Gabeba Baderoon, the tone can be described as contemplative and introspective. The speaker reflects on their own experiences and emotions, offering a nuanced perspective on identity and belonging.
Step-by-step explanation:
Point of view by Gabeba Baderoon Poem Analysis Distant reading Stages or phases of the poem 1.The three stanzas in this poem represent three different places and three different viewpoints. Explain. The first stanza is set in a kitchen, as seen in line 1. The viewpoint represented is someone who struggles to find a kitchen utensil, a “nutmeg grater”(line 1), and remembers that the nutmeg grater is not in the kitchen of the place she is currently living, but is somewhere else. Where this other place is not explained to the reader, but there is a sense of nostalgia and a sense of longing created in the stanza.The woman represented here seems to miss the familiarity of another place that she is far away from, and the repetition of the word “another” (2,3) adds to this sense of longing and distance in the stanza.The viewpoint is of someone who misses something and some place, but cannot get them back. Thereis a tone of longing, frustration and nostalgia in the stanza. The second stanza represents someone, perhaps the same woman, who fills in an address on an envelope or a piece of mail, and realizes that she has written an address of a place “she has left behind”(5). The place is a post office, and the viewpoint here is slightly different. The woman shows an increased sense of frustration, shown by the words “tears up”(6), but also a lingering sense of haunting from the old place where the woman used to live.The image of lines 8-9, where “[h]er mail follows her/ like outstretched hands” is almost menacing, but also reminds one of a child reaching out its hands for a maternal figure. This adds to the sense that the speaker has left a place that she felt very connected to and even loved, and now has to “[start] again”(7). In the final stanza, the place is in the outdoors as a character returns home.The viewpoint here changes again, shown through the use of the word “home” (10), which indicates that there is a sense of home between the character and the new place she lives.However, the hawk “pinning the sky” (13) is another menacing image. Hawks are birds of prey, and there is the sense that the hawk is stalking or looking for prey. The image is ominous(threatening), and challenges the speaker’s idea that she can feel at home in the new place she is in when there are dengrous eye watching her.