Lorna Goodison, makes a lot of points about great stones throughout her story. Goodison used these stones as a reference to certain people without actually coming forward and say whom they are. By reading this poem you easily get what these people are going through. Throughout this paper I am going to relate these stones to the different phases of the Caribbean history, show you the themes in them, and also compare her writing styles to two fellow Caribbean authors. .
To get an understanding of how I"m going to compare these stones to certain people, you must first get a good understanding of what the stones actually mean and represent. Lorna uses her stones as a reference to certain people, and being from the Caribbean you can narrow it down to the people of the caribbean. She really makes these stones come out to mean happiness when she says, "Mother, stones are pillows for the homeless to sleep on concrete sheets" and "giving our children stones to eat". It makes these stones something that someone wants, and needs in their life to achieve happiness. When she states at the end of the poem that these stones got to move, she really meant that these stones moved forward, becoming more civilized, or becoming more important as a whole. .
This poem is great when describing the different stages of advancement of the Caribbean. In the poem they go through stages where they talk about the stones being the hearts of people, and how much hard work the people have put into getting these stones to move. They then talked about what they needed to do to get the stones to move by things like the growing of harvests, more than likely to make money and advance their placement in the world. Then at the end of the story they talk about how the stones got to move, when they actually achieved there over all happiness. The stones are great references to the Caribbean because the Caribbean went through stages exactly like this.
Now, it is very difficult to define what got broken here. ... The above narrative validifies the stanza in Lorna Goodison's For Rosa Parks; "But the people had walked before in yoked formations down to Calabar, into the belly of close-ribbed whales, sealed for seasons." ...
