This piece of Caribbean literature illustrates the concept and struggle of leaving a life behind for a better place. The poem is written with each stanza starting with "O!", and then a compliment about Jamaica, as if it were a great place to live, but then continues the stanza with bad living conditions, except the last stanza to conclude the conflict of the characters. ends with the decision to leave or not. Marson uses a lot of imagery in this poem to give the reader as much attachment to the country as she does. The images also help the reader understand the landscape of experiencing there and that of someone going on vacation to Jamaica. The vivid description of the beauty of Jamaica is seen in each verse and the amenities it offers, but especially in the fourth verse, “there's golf, there's dancing and swimming. And spells they had never seen before” (27-28) makes it sound like someone is reading aloud the catalog and its advantages of Jamaica. The verse continues with “they call it the Garden of Eden” (29). Marson makes a biblical reference that it is known to be a beautiful place of trees and water. This reference illuminates the description of Jamaica because the Garden of Eden is known to be a magical, beautiful and perfect place and connecting these two places and saying they are similar means that Marson believes that this place is all there is