DANNISE BAPTISTE

TOPIC: LANDSCAPE PAINTER

  Virtue attended school and worked for the Jamaican Department
of Public Works in Kingston, Jamaica, where she was born. He
relocated to London upon his civil service retirement in 1960. He
worked for the Poetry League of Jamaica as the assistant
secretary, librarian, and vice president at the end. He served as
vice-president and a founding member of PEN International's
Jamaican Center. In addition, he was a fellow of the Royal Society
Bibliography of Arts and a member of the British Royal Society of Literature.
Virtue translated works in Spanish by poets from the Caribbean
and Latin America, as well as poems by José-María de Heredia
from French into English. The Institute of Jamaica awarded him
the Silver Musgrave Medal in 1960.Virtue was married to Rhue
Hope McKay, daughter of writer Claude McKay and his wife, the
former Eulalie Imelda Lewars.Virtue died in London in 1998 at the
age of 87 after an extended illness from heart disease and
bronchopneumonia.
  Simile:
 “Grandchildren about the knees”
 Imagery:
 “On corner of the Twisted climbing mountain track”
 “dips, darts, now here, now there”

Figurative  “…Puzzles of pigment bloom in the pallets wild small garden”

 Metaphor :
Devices  “ tireless hummingbird, his brush”
 Personification :
 “ the mountains pose for him”
 “The little Hills fidgeting”
 “sprawl grandchildren about the knees”
  Nature

THEME  PLACE
 ART
Figurative  Methopher: A tireless hummingbird, his brush Dips, dartS, hovers
device now here, now there
  The landscape painter Albert Huie, a famous Jamaican painter by
the poet admires the painter’s process as he watches this method
Summary and speaks in awe as he captures the scenery as if the landscape is
a living thing getting ready to be painted and showing their best
side for this painter. Capturing the painter in his element.
 Stanza 1:
 The first stanza gives a feeling of awe and calmness as the pater
Stanza by Stanza Analysis sets up to begin painting. The easel is set to cover a part of the
mountain, “straddling precariously” the way the easel is set can be
said to reflect the free will and freeness of painting as well the
tone of the poem itself.
  The poems encapsulate the essence of the environment, the
painter paints the landscape as well as him painting uses
metaphors of parts of the environment to show the process. This
stanza describes the movement of his brush like a hummingbird,
Stanza 2: quickly moving from one colour to the next drawn to them like the
hummingbird drawn to the different flowers for nectar in a
garden. The use of the word like “tireless”, “Darts, dips” that are
used add to the feeling of quickness in this stanza.
  This stanza begins to personify the landscape giving a mood of
wonder and whimsicality to the poem, it could also be that the
painter has such command over his craft that it seems like the
mountains are in cahoots with him and are doing exactly as he
wants. The mountains are described as “Dignified, self-conscious,
against the wide blue screen” showing the prominence of the
Stanza 3: mountains in the painting against the sky as if showing authority.
The hills are referred to as grandchildren at the knees of the hill
because compared to the mountains they are small they have yet
to reach the size of the mountains, but mountains still have a ways
to go. As the blue mountain peak is behind them, the highest
point in jamaica. “Shouldering the sky” gives an image of how
high the peak is.
  Stanza 4:
 “And the professional gaze studies positions, impatiently waiting
for the perfect moment to fix” the painter is now getting ready to
Paint the mountains we get the sense of the meticulous nature of
the painter how fixated he is on getting capturing the perfect
Stanza 4: scene.
 “ their preparedness to confine them for the pleasant formality off
the family album.” the mountains are again being personified. We
get the imagery of them all together ready to be painted on
canvas, it is not an actual album but a metaphor for them being on
the canvas all together in the painting.
  “His brush a humming-bird meticulously poised” this line is
repeated again bringing us back to the beginning again the
hummingbird although it is a quick bird keeps its balance a
beautiful bird that is also an emblem of jamaica itself, its scenery
Stanza 5: and nature. The image of the painter with his brush painting in
great detail, careful and precise . “the little hills fidgeting” as it
was referenced before the hills are seen as the grandchildren and
as children do they move but that is not the reality as hills are
stationary. It could be how the painting is viewed by virtue
  Intrigue

Tone  Admiration
 bemusment
  Fascination

Mood  Wonder
 Reflection