Kamau Brathwaite is "Jamaican me crazy"

Kamau's journal excerpt and his poetry offer us a similar writing style, that of a poet who does not stop on the poetry page. His poems offer the reader a native view of how rough it must be in Jamaica. In "Calypso," there is a tension between the field boss and his workers. But the workers get that tension off with a little Calypso music and dancing. "Stone" is about what happens when you try to fight the management. His journal, framed around the time his wife is about to die, is similar to his poetry because of the repetitive pattern of words, phrases in either small or large type, and the sense that almost no narration is taking place. There is a narrative, but only at the beginning and end of each entry. Everything else is just a lot of prose lamenting the future loss of his wife. Why he does not tell his wife that she is going to die, I have no notion of it. I know if my wife was going to die, I would tell her about it. The only clear thing about this situation is he is very sad about what is going to happen to him. This is especially felt when he sees his house flooding with mud as a foreshadowing to his wife's illness.