Checking Out Me History Quotes Flashcards
First lines of checkin out me history
Dem tell me
Dem tell me
Wha dem want to tell me
Use of repetition creates an accusatory tone, showing his anger.
Quote from checkin out me history talking about how he hasn’t learned about his own history due to the education system
Bandage up me eye with me own history
Blind me to me own identity
Injury like connotation, implies that the speaker feels he has been hurt by his sheltered upbringing.
Almost humerous way of dissmissing British history in checkin out me history
Dem tell me bout 1066 and all dat
Dem tell me bout Dick Wittington and he cat
Paragraph using A-A-A-A rhyming scheme and contrasting fairy tails to important british history
Dem tell me bout de man who discover de balloon
And de cow who jump over de moon
Dem tell me bout de dish ran away with de spoon
But dem never tell me bout Nanny de Maroon
Sub section in checkin out me history about Mary Seacole
From Jamaica
She travel far
To the crimean war
And volunteer to go
And even when de british say no
She still brave the russian snow
A healing star
Among the wounded
A yellow sunrise
To the dying
Last 2 lines of checkin out me history talking about general message of poem
But now i checking out me own history
I carving out me identity
Volta, goes from “dem” to “I”
Haitan figure
“Toussaint”
(Toussaint L’ouverture)
In italics symbolises his importance and many don’t know who he is.
Comparisons to checking out me history…
Ozymandias
The emigreé
London
Structure in checkin out me history
Italics used to seperate the distinct stanzas regarding european history and figures in black history
Uses mixture of stanza forms to show him breaking away from british history
Mixture of ryhme schemes as british history rhyme schemes are more childish
Use of carribean language shows him trying to make british people feel like he has his whole life
Context Checkin out me history
John Agard is a guyanan Poet who was born in the UK,Deprived of an education of his own history
