JUDAS
This poem was written by Mervyn Eustes Morris a Jamaican poet. Morris usually stresses upon the importance of nation and its language through his verse. He wants to redefine the aspect of Jamaican culture and their creole language. In the first stanza it had told thaat the master gave Judas a mocking smile. But actually Christ simply smiled at Judas , but in these lines Morris has exggerated the smile into a mocking smile. The word 'mocking' seemed to be the striking word and therfore poet wanted to highlight the 'mocking glance' of the master.
The poet explains the Judas feeling of being partial by his master who had given the priority for John to sit in his right. This was again the poets partial feeling even in his own homeland by the colonisers.He has said that the truth which is in the side of colonised is alays complicated in the foreign eyes. also the coloniser is the ''knowintg judge of man'' in the sense whart ever they say is believed by the world.
On the whole the poem 'Judas' by Mervyn Morris is nothing but a representation of history by the point of view of the victim. He had deconstructed the real and the past i.e. deconstructing the already existing ideas. Also he wanted to say that the colonised people's ideas and life thoughts are not accepted whereas the colonisers idealogy, life and thioughts were accepted. The poet uses the word 'master' and 'lord' for christ inorder to avoid the religious conflict. Though he describes the pathetic condition if 'colonised' people in the poem the comparison used in this poem is quite controversial however the poet tried to escape of controversies through his careful selection of words and diction.
The old man out is always
Judas 'we're from Galilee'
(Nasty little province,
smells of fish!)
This poem was written by Mervyn Eustes Morris a Jamaican poet. Morris usually stresses upon the importance of nation and its language through his verse. He wants to redefine the aspect of Jamaican culture and their creole language. In the first stanza it had told thaat the master gave Judas a mocking smile. But actually Christ simply smiled at Judas , but in these lines Morris has exggerated the smile into a mocking smile. The word 'mocking' seemed to be the striking word and therfore poet wanted to highlight the 'mocking glance' of the master.
The poet explains the Judas feeling of being partial by his master who had given the priority for John to sit in his right. This was again the poets partial feeling even in his own homeland by the colonisers.He has said that the truth which is in the side of colonised is alays complicated in the foreign eyes. also the coloniser is the ''knowintg judge of man'' in the sense whart ever they say is believed by the world.
On the whole the poem 'Judas' by Mervyn Morris is nothing but a representation of history by the point of view of the victim. He had deconstructed the real and the past i.e. deconstructing the already existing ideas. Also he wanted to say that the colonised people's ideas and life thoughts are not accepted whereas the colonisers idealogy, life and thioughts were accepted. The poet uses the word 'master' and 'lord' for christ inorder to avoid the religious conflict. Though he describes the pathetic condition if 'colonised' people in the poem the comparison used in this poem is quite controversial however the poet tried to escape of controversies through his careful selection of words and diction.
The old man out is always
Judas 'we're from Galilee'
(Nasty little province,
smells of fish!)
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