Checking Out Me History - John Agard

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GCSE English (Poetry) Mindmap am Checking Out Me History - John Agard, erstellt von Samira Choudhury am 21/04/2017.
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Checking Out Me History - John Agard
  1. Direct address - Talking to reader
    1. 'Dem tell me' - Repetition, different to him, white people?
      1. Rhyme - Mocking white history/what he is taught
        1. 'Nanny de maroon' - Ends on black historical figure, focus, important
          1. 'Blind me' - Metaphor, doesn't want him to see who he really is
            1. 'Bandage up me eye' - Metaphor, held back purposefully
              1. Enjambment - Anger, lack of control, wants to get it out
                1. 'All dat' - Not important to him, vague
                  1. Song/rap - Black icons can't be controlled
                    1. 'Mountain dream' 'Hopeful stream' ' freedom river' - Natural influences on him, nature
                      1. 'Slave' - Noun, only black history taught
                        1. Italics - Emphasizes importance of black historical figures
                          1. 'Wha dem want to tell me' - Forced, learn what they want, what they choose to show him
                            1. 'I carving out me identity' - Metaphor, takes time, hard to do, ends on poet, important
                              1. 'Beacon' - Hope
                                1. 'I checking out me own history' - Doing it himself
                                  1. 'Caribs 'Arawaks' - Compound sentence , forcing black and white together
                                    1. 'Healing star' 'Yellow sunrise' - Metaphor, positive
                                      1. 'Mary Seacole' - Did more than Nightingale without help, still not remembered
                                        1. Free verse, oral poetry
                                          1. Non-standard phonetic spelling, no punctuation - Refuses to use, forces us to adopt his accent
                                            1. Born and raised in Guyana, Caribbean (British colony)
                                              1. Pride, white power, identity, culture, challegeing racist attitudes
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