Nature
By: H.D. Carberry
About the author
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
Types of weather
Malaysia
• Uniform
temperature
Korea
Jamaica
4 seasons
Tropical Marine Climate
• Winter
• High temperature –
all year round
• High humidity
• Spring
• Copious rainfall
• Summer
• Well known for its
sunshine and warmth
• Light wind
• Autumn
• Rainy season (May to
Oct)
• Probability of
hurricane
Temperature
Malaysia
Korea
Jamaica
23 °C to 40 °C
Lowest:
Upland
Lowest: 10 °C
40 °C – in Chuping,
Perlis
- 15.3 °C
Highest
But the lowest ever
recorded is in
Cameron Highland
7.8 °C (1978)
35 °C
Lowland
15 °C to 31 °C
Introduction - Jamaica
I can see clearly now by Jimmy Cliff
The poem
We have neither Summer nor Winter
Neither Autumn nor Spring.
We have instead the days
When the gold sun shines on the lush green canefieldsMagnificently.
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.
Synopsis of the poem
The poem tells of the weather conditions
in Jamaica although it does not have the
four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and
winter. The weather conditions of golden
sunny days and wet rainy days are just as
good and are almost equivalent to the four
seasons
Understanding the poem

Lines 1 to 10
◦ The poet tells about his homeland , Jamaica
and rejoices the beauty of this island. Jamaica
has no seasonal changes. It has a tropical
climate which is hot and wet throughout the
year. The days of golden sunshine are glorious
and magnificent. There are many canefields in
Jamaica as sugar is one of the main exports in
this country.
Understanding the poem

Lines 11 to 15
◦ In the ending of the poem, the poet tells us his
favourite time – days when the flowers of mango
trees and logwood blossom. He uses imagery of
sound and smell to illustrate abundant life and
activity in the bushes when the ‘sound of bees
and the scent of honey’ add to the charm and
beauty if Jamaica. He describes the fields filled
with lovely yellow buttercups. All this happens
when the rains have stopped and the beauty if
nature emerges once again.
Themes
Beauty of nature
 Appreciation of one owns 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.

Tone, mode & admosphere
Appreciative and happy
 Carefree and light-hearted
 Sense of beauty

Point of view

Third person point of view
Guango tree
Canefields
Buttercup
Logwood blossom
Winter

Weather is cold
Spring

Weather becomes warmer and plants
start to grow again
Summer

Weather is hot and warm
Autumn

Weather becomes cooler and leaf fell off
the trees