There is no real sense of anger at slavery as you might expect but rather the sense of it, like the limbo stick, is an obstacle that can be overcome.Suffocation and being overwhelmed (“the water surrounding me”, “the silence is over me”).If the limbo stick represents the shackles of slavery or life, then the dance is an act of liberation and a way to be free of these ties (figuratively and literally) (“up up up / and the music is saving me”) Feelings:.Although the limbo dance is now thought of as a spectacle for tourists, its history comes from the exercises slaves used to do to keep themselves fit on the slave ships Attitudes:.“stick knock” (“ck” sound again like something being struck) Alliteration:.
“stick is the whip / and the dark deck is slavery” Personification:.“long dark deck is the silence in front of me”.“And limbo stick is the silence in front of me”.Slaves brought from Africa by these European countries to work in the sugar cane fields and other crops SURFACE MEANING During a customary limbo dance the dancer is reminded of the history of Afro-Caribbeans as slaves LANGUAGE Imagery Simile = “limbo like me” – either join me in this dance or I am in limbo Metaphor:.Colonised by European countries in the 18th century.
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