The first stanza is about a man working up to the sound of the sea, but which is all in his mind. This is because he has lived in the Caribbean for so long, that he is imagining it and waking up in the morning to the sound of the sea but he's really waking up in London to the sound of traffic and people also maybe rain, which is probably pouring on the windows of his flat.

This Caribbean man maybe is homesick so that is why he reminisces about his past enjoyable experiences of waking up to the sound of nature. Waking up in the morning to the peacefulness of the Caribbean island and then abruptly waking up in a totally contrasting environment to which he envisaged just before, the weather is gloomy. These are so appealing he doesn't want to let go.

By the caption I can straight away tell that there are two men who are black and have time on their hands and are spending their time on a park bench in Leicester with nothing to do or go anywhere.

Two old black men on a Leicester Square park bench.

At first these two poems tell us that they are about African men who have come from a sunny, hot, and peaceful places and in the first poem (Island Man) that man has come from the Caribbean and maybe the second as well.

But the only difference is that the island man has just newly come to the United Kingdom and the Leicester Square men have spent most of their lives or you can say the young years in the United Kingdom by earning.

The men in these poems are tried in the different way at this time in their lines like the island man is in bed and the language shows that he is forcing himself to get out of bed and the man in Leicester shows that they are tired because of their lives, the way they have lived and worked and their lives have just gone by wasted. This I believe shows that when these men in Leicester it shows that they are tired because of their lives, the way they have liked and worked and their lives have just gone by wasted. It shows these men in Leicester were young and first came to the UK they were like the Island man who has come to England for the same reasons the Leicester Square men had come to earn.

'And the sun was traded long ago', which gives it a sad ending to the that they couldn't go back to the sunny tropical country but had to stay in this dull grey and wet weathered country

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Approximate Word count = 1314
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)