“Be not afeard. The isle is full of noises,
Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices
That, if I then had waked after long sleep
Will make me sleep again; and then in dreaming
The clouds methought would open and show riches
Ready to drop upon me, that when I waked
I cried to dream again” (Act III, scene ii, 130–138).

This is Caliban’s beautiful speech about his native island to Stephano and Trinculo, foreigners unfamiliar with the island. It is important to note why Caliban spoke about the island in a poetic sense. Though he claims that his newly learned language allows him to curse, it shows that he is also capable of using speech in a sensitive way. Caliban’s poetic descriptions of the mysterious island are considered to be one of the most poetic in the play. It is pretty ironic to hear “the isle is full of noises, sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not”, such a delicate line, from a drunk man-beast. Just as bad as Caliban was seen as a character with bad language and behavior, Shakespeare decides to throw in that beautiful speech to remind the audience that Caliban is not all earth and anger. He has something within himself that Prospero, Trinculo, Stephano, and the audience either cannot or refuse to see. Caliban doesn’t know of the blissful noises of the island, but that only strengthens his love and respect for it. The way he described the island implies his attachment and attitude towards it. Whether its Prospero’s magic, Ariel’s music and spirits, or the nature of the island, Caliban deeply appreciates it and wants his visitors to know that.