i have this poem to do and answer some questions on it and i need some help...

Skeete's Bay, Barbados
One always missed the turning, but found, in time
The broken sign that pointed crookedly, loath to
Allow another stranger here. Perhaps this Tom
Or Dick has plans for progress that will tow
The boats away and make them "quaint"; that will tame
This wild coast with pale rheumatics who tee

Off where sea-egg shells and fisherman
Now lie with unconcern. Naked children
And their sticks flush crabs from their holes
and a bare-legged girl, dress in wet folds
Wades slow towards a waning sun.

And the sea tossed angrily
For it knew that freedom here was short.
It remembered other coasts
Made mod by small-eyed men in big cars

And as before it knew she'd vanish
The bare-legged girl; the children and their crabs
Would leave; a better world would banish
them to imitation coconut trays

But those small eyes reflecting dollar signs
Have not yet found the crooked finger to this peace;
And down the beach the women bathe their sons
Who'll never talk, like Pap, of fishing seasons past.

Only memory will turn down this way
When some old man somewhere recalls his day
On this beach were sea-egg shells once lay.

Robert Lee

these are the questions:

1. Point out any 4 things that can be said about Skeetes Bay in the 1st paragraph.

2. in what way does the persona suggest that skeetes bay will change.

3.identify the tone of the voice in lines 18-19 "Would leave; a better world would banish
them to imitation coconut trays"

4. what does the persona mean by "...Would leave; a better world would banish
them to imitation coconut trays"

5. what does the narrator use of "but" at the beg. of the 5th stanza suggest.

6. what do you consider to be the central theme of the poem? give 2 pieces of evidence to support your ans.

I'm out of my element here (sorry bad pun from a chemist) but it's been a week since your post.

Skeetes Bay is in the Caribbean.. near Barbados
It's not well developed.. (a broken sign that the locals don't need is trying to keep strangers away)
It seems to be fishing village but there is a golf course..that tourists go to.

Tom or Dick seem to be wishing for a change to the area to make tourism the dominant business instead of fishing.

But... The greedy folks have not yet found this area
there is still some hope to maintain the old ways
The tone of voice sounds bitter that the real life girl and the kids with sticks would no longer be found on the beach but only as pictures on cheap trays made to look like a real beach.



Your final question..
The central theme shows regret of progress a loss of inocense of an area. Things change