Olive senior colonial girls school

          Colonial Girls School.

        1. In her poem, 'Colonial Girls' School', Olive Senior finely satirizes the way in which the colonial education system in Jamaica promoted alienating icons of.
        2. Pale?
        3. This poem, written by Olive Senior, has a strong identity theme.
        4. "Colonial Girls School" is one of Olive Senior's best known poems and a study of her short stories and poems reveals a writer who has been.

          5. Pale?.


          In Frances-Anne's post, she wrote, "Creation is a form of Terror, particularly when you come from a colonial context and background in which Empire (read: a sense of inferiority) was imposed through education, language, culture, as much if not more than through the barrel of a gun." This insult to our minds, hearts, and bodies is one of the themes of Olive Senior's, "Colonial Girls School," and the erasure of sense and sensibility by suppression of the natural,denial of the native, and the implied superiority of "northern eyes" is masterfully woven through the text with use of the prefix-de. The poem's iconoclastic language relies on the metaphor of "images" that are shattered at the end of the poem, "How the mirror broke," and the word play on "pale."

          Colonial Girls School

          For Marlene Smith MacLeish

          Borrowed images
          willedour skinspale
          muffled          our laughter
          loweredour voices
          let out our hems
          de          kinked our hair
          denied our sex in gym