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Nature: by H.D Carberry

H.D. Carberry's poem "Nature" describes the climate in Jamaica, which does not have four distinct seasons. It summarizes that Jamaica experiences days of bright sunshine alternating with heavy rains, as well as times when leaves fall from trees and cane fields become bare. However, the poem notes that the best days are when trees and bushes bloom after the rains, filling the air with beauty, scent and sound.

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Nature: by H.D Carberry

H.D. Carberry's poem "Nature" describes the climate in Jamaica, which does not have four distinct seasons. It summarizes that Jamaica experiences days of bright sunshine alternating with heavy rains, as well as times when leaves fall from trees and cane fields become bare. However, the poem notes that the best days are when trees and bushes bloom after the rains, filling the air with beauty, scent and sound.

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NATURE

by H.D CARBERRY
Form 4 Literature Component
-Poem-
About the poet…
• Hugh Doston (“Dossie”) Carberry was born July 12, 1921, the

son of sir John Carberry, a former Chief Justice of Jamaica, and

Lady Georgina Carberry, in Montreal, Canada. He came to

Jamaica in infancy and spent most of his life there. He had his

primary education at Decarteret school in Mandeville, Jamaica

and then attended Jamaica College. After working with the Civil

Service, to which he qualified as second out of over 100

applicants, Carberry went to St. Catherrine College, Oxford

University, where he obtained his B. A. and B. C. L.


He read Law at Middle Temple and was called to the Bar in 1951,

then returning to Jamaica to engage in private practice. In 1954,

Carberry married Dorothea, and they had two sons, Martin and John,

and a daughter, Christine. In addition to his career in law, Carberry

was a poet and gave outstanding service in the cultural field, being a

member of the Managing Committee of the Little Theatre since 1951.

A devout Christian, he was also a pillar of the Providence Methodist

church as Class Co-leader. Carberry was Clerk to the Houses of

Parliament from 1969-1978 and a member of the commonwealth

Parliamentary Association. He was appointed Judge of the Jamaican

court of appeal in 1978 and served for a decade. H. D. Carberry died

on June 28, 1989.

 
Synopsis…
• This poem describes the climate in Jamaica,
where there are no four seasons. It has days
of bright, golden sunshine alternating with
days of heavy rain. There are also days when
the leaves fall off guango trees ad the cane
fields become empty. Then, nature blooms
again when the mango and the logwood
blossom, and the rain has gone.
Nature
by H.D Carberry
We have neither Summer nor Winter
Neither Autumn nor Spring.
We have instead the days
When the gold sun shines on the lush green canefields-
Magnificently.
The days when the rain beats like bullet on the roofs
And there is no sound but thee swish of water in the gullies
And trees struggling in the high Jamaica winds.
Also there are the days when leaves fade from off guango trees’
And the reaped canefields lie bare and fallow to the sun.
But best of all there are the days when the mango and the logwood blossom
When bushes are full of the sound of bees and the scent of honey,
When the tall grass sways and shivers to the slightest breath of air,
When the buttercups have paved the earth with yellow stars
And beauty comes suddenly and the rains have gone.
Paraphrase of the Poem…
• Lines 1-5
Jamaica does not have the four seasons . Instead,
it has days when the sun shines brightly on cane
fields.
• Lines 6-8
At other times, the rain comes pouring down and
beats on rooftop. The only sound that can be
heard is the sound of water flowing in gullies. The
trees have to struggle against the fierce winds.
• Lines 9-10
There are also when leaves fall off trees and the fields
are left bare.

• Lines 11-15
However, the best days are when fruit trees bloom.
They are days when the bushes are full of bees and
the smell of honey, and the grass sways gently in the
breeze. They are days when yellow buttercups filled
the land and the surrounding is beautiful again after
the rain has gone.
Theme…

• Beauty of nature

• Appreciation of one’s own country

• Differences in appearances but similar in

effects
Moral Values…

• We should appreciate what we have in our own


country.
• We should not long for what we do not have.
• We should be aware that different people have
different skills or beauty.

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