Identity Poems

Question 1

Checking out me History: key quotes, summary, context, key poems

Answer 1

key quotes:
-‘Dem tell me Wha dem want to tell me’
- ‘blind me to my own identity’
- ‘Nanny see-far woman of mountain dream’
-‘I carving out me identity’

summary:
John Agard is frustrated at what British school has taught him about history, and displays the negligence towards equally important black historic figures

context:
The poem is written in Guyanese Creole, spoken in Guyana, in which John Agard is from which reflects his pride within his nationality and language

similar poems:
The Émigrée
Tissues
London