YEAR OF THE RAM.

This whole piece is hauntingly real. The tourist fantasy is tackled by images by football players and dissected by museum directors. There are also images of bombs going off and comparisons to Vietnam and America. I also find it interesting that there was a question of whether to refer to the year as the year of the ram or as a sheep. The two animals are in the same species but what’s the significance of Cliffords use of the Chinese Astrology? The poem speaks of globalization within Hawaii and dwells on the tourist industry of Hawaii seemingly dismissive attitude towards negative issues that stem from colonization and continue to plague humanity.

Upon doing some further research the year of Ram is characteristic of followers, creative, charming, auspiciousness, and appealing while some of negative aspects are indulgent, irresponsible, disorganized and careless. While the people of born in 1991 do not have much to do with this reading of Cliffords Year of the Ram it does delocalize the idea of Hawaii and show how the state of Hawaii is contained within the context of the world but Clifford warns in his comparisons that Hawaii tourism industry might lead to an implosion of the island.