Checking out Me History

Meaning
1. racism of education system
2. black history is not taught in this poem/school
3. white bias only teach the white history in their school
Imagery
1. "Bandage up me eyes" normally bandages are to help someone but in this case it is doing the opposite
2. "Blind me" blinding him from his identity and his history
3. nursery rhymes
Tone
1. sarcasm
2. frustration
3. anger
4. confusion on his history
structure
1. no obvious structure he just writes what he wants to
  1. reason for this could be that he wants to be different
    1. rebel against the education system
2. all the points that relate to the white history have more structure
  1. black history seems to be just more of a list as if it wasn't important
form
1. 1st person narrative
  1. story
2. dramatic monolouge
3. one opinion
  1. one side of the story
Language
1. uses dialect, local tounge
2. you have to read it how he would say the poem
3. forces you to talk like him just like the education system has forced him to learn
4. takes control
5. repetition
6. "Dem-people", white education system, it group references different people
7. slang is used that proves that the education system has failed to teach him
8. Irony
  1. "Bandages" usually used to help people and heal them but in this case has done the exact opposite
  2. identity covered, hurts him
Theme
1. identity
2. Ironic
3. sarcasm
4. racial divide
5. Bias education system

Resource summary

	Created by Jade Randall about 11 years ago