have coming
to Dover!
, This poem is about the experience of immigrants to
England, and has been cleverly written to be read in
parallel with Matthew Arnold’s Dover Beach. Nagra’
poem reflects the themes of Arnold’s poem, written
hundred years ago, where the he imagines the
conflict and chaos that might result if the there was
no religious basis to our society. Nagra also
About dramatizes an uneasy nation, as one idea of Englan
is replaced by another — the latter, Nagra’s vision,
uglier, with hostility to immigrants and pollution.
The title is ungrammatical, Nagra teasing his own
people for their incorrect English with gentle humou