When reading Caribbean poetry one must understand that form and style of literature has risen from the ashes of our own history. Laurence A. Breiner states, “West Indies literature begins in this century virtually from nothing” (Breiner 59). The world of Caribbean poetry has suffered great pain in re-solidifying their environment, physically and emotionally, after being torn apart and mixed within a reductive colonial atmosphere. In Edward Kamau Brathwaite’s poem “Wings of a Dove” he asserts the colonial made ideology of his culture’s migratory mentality. In respect, he looks to the past for proof, and hopes for change in the future. Through the vernacular voice of the Rastafarians, he aims to rebuild a new culture by extracting the colonial ingredients and bridging his people’s similar migratory instincts toward Africa.

Colonial oppression familiarized and polluted the lands of the West Indies, and this is no secret to the Caribbean people. The people of the