... although they are written by people from completely different places, they feel discriminated against because of their accents. In both poems phonetic spellings are used to emphasize the point the poet is trying to make. By using the kind of ...

... three of us sailed to England. Prickly heat had me screaming on the way. I ended up in a cot in my English grandmother's dining-room, found myself alone, playing with a tin-boat. I pictured my birthplace from fifties' photographs. When I was older there was conflict, a fractured land throbbing ...

... a word or phrase stand out and to put a point across to the reader. For example at the beginning of the first few lines it states 'explain yuself', 'wha yu mean' and 'when yu say half-caste'. This makes the ...

... the country was still a British colony until 1966. In 1977 Agard moved to England. This is where he became the light of the new West Indian British dawn of various bardic compositions. Agard is a poet whom blends calypso ...

... stops. It has what (at a first glance) seem to be random forward slashes, but I have now realised that it seems to welcome a pause after each forward slash. In "Unrelated Incidents" there aren't any capital letters except for ...

... stone lanterns illuminated pleasant ways" The second answer is about the birth of children as it says "to delight in blossom" linking the birth of a child to a sprout of a new plant. It then says "but after the ...

... ya eye' and not just half. It is trying to put across the message that because someone is half caste, do not think of them as half the person you are. The poet is suggesting that people who look at ...

... lower tone. The describes the surroundings very well and puts this image in your mind.' Amiable weeds'. This is a quick summery of the ground because you start to see and build up an image of the surroundings. The language ...

... controlled anger. Segregation is used to show the separate identities of blacks and whites. It is set out in 7 stanzas. The formal punctuation and structure is very organised which makes the poem seem like a story. Language is used to ...

... already just by his presence, you get the feeling that this unwelcoming man would stop at nothing due to his obvious yet unclear appearance and background. He has a shackle on his legs, binding them painfully together. His body is soaking ...

... these poems, the writer is dealing with the issues of racism. The two writers are expressing their anger and want the readers to take notice of how they feel. The two writers both use repetition throughout the poem. Tatamkhula used the ...

... also relays to you the fact that even if you've forgotten your mother tongue and don't speak it for some time it will always come back and blossom if it is used enough. The poet also puts the point across ...

... she is confused about which language is her. It also shows how people don't understand how she feels or understand what she is going through with her struggle with the two languages that she uses. For it says: "You ask me ...

... do themselves. Agard exaggerates his ideas in order to make his argument a lot clearer. "..an when moon begin to glow I half-caste human being cast half-a-shadow..." It is obvious that half-caste people do not caste shadows different to anyone else, but ...

... three of us sailed to England. Prickly heat had me screaming on the way. I ended up in a cot in my English grandmother's dining-room, found myself alone, playing with a tin-boat. I pictured my birthplace from fifties' photographs. When I was older there was conflict, a fractured land throbbing ...

... My Business' is about the violence used by the state authorities against the people of Nigeria. The poet: Niyi Osundare believes that you should stand up for what is right, regardless of whether it bothers you at that specific time. ...

... very polite but immediately after the poet is acquiring the 'reader' of suggesting he is half a man by using the words 'half-caste'. He uses informal language throughout the poem, the language is also written in john Agard's dialect. It ...

... the mother tongue..." This can be found from line 4. The quote tells us she is forgetting her other language (or her other tongue) and so her importance of identity comes from her language. In English speaking, we sometimes ...

... criticises racist superiority while Hardy criticises social superiority. Both stories explore conflict between parents and children. In KMC Jolil is embarrassed of his dad's English and the way he dress. "He felt shy going around with him and sitting at the teacher's ...

... is an introduction and the ending is similar to a final conclusion. Perhaps the second stanza is the longest because Agard dives into more detailed and explained points where he tries to understand what people mean by the word 'half ...

... by using humour the poet gets the audiences attention and the poet asks the audience to accept him. By standing on one leg he is being sarcastic and mocking, he is suggesting this stance is because he is half caste ...

... On the other hand Nichols talks to the hurricanes like they are her own personal objects, and that they are a part of her alone, ' Talk to me Oya.' The cultures of the two poems are portrayed in very ...

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... of anger and perhaps slow the poem down for dramatic effect. Half Caste is also written in an angry tone. The uses of derogatory term such as, 'ah rass,' are used to emphasize his attitude towards the ignorant people in ...

... being called this; these are the questions he is generalising into this one verse "explain yuself wha u mean when yu say half-caste". He then starts to mention Picasso, a well-known artist and cultural idol and asks when he mixes ...