Checking out me history

Question 1

‘dam tell me dam tell me wha dem want to tell me’

Answer 1

• anaphora
• repetition of ‘d’ assonance
• rhyme suggests lack of freedom in British education system

Question 2

‘bandage up me eye with me own history’

Answer 2

• metaphor
• homophone for eye, nothing wrong with his eye
• false view of history been taught
• his side of history has been blinded

Question 3

‘toussaint/ a slave/ with vision/ Napolean’

Answer 3

• like Napolean he wants to overcome British history

Question 4

‘dam tell me bout colombus/but what happen to de caribs’

Answer 4

• only positive side of history taught (British)
• carribs were killed, not taught
• our eyes have been bandaged up from this

Question 5

‘a healing star/but now checking out me own history/carving out me identity’

Answer 5

• Mary Seacole
• he wants to be the same
• wants to heal with us and come to an agreement
• metaphor
• Cepheus king of gods turned good people into stars
• couplets at the end signal happy ending
• carving out his own identity into a sculptor