checking out me history Flashcards
1
Q
summery
A
the spreaker is recounting all if the historical figures that he was taught as child, he then lists alot of black people who werent mentioned
2
Q
where was john born
A
guyana
3
Q
what type of education did he recieve and why
A
british education because guyana was colonised
4
Q
what did the british education for john therefore mean
A
he was deprived of learning his cultural heritige and his identity
5
Q
what was the poem inspired by
A
reading from a schoo textbook
6
Q
what was the collection the poem was in called
A
’ half caste and other poems’
7
Q
what did the collection focus on
A
culture and racial identity
8
Q
what was the structure and why
A
daul structure
the division between the use of italics shows what was taught by schools and what was real and deprived
