checking out me history

Question 1

dem tell me
dem tell me
wha dem want to tell me

Answer 1

powerful form of repetition to show it is a protest poem (anerfora)
asonans
blooding up a Rythm to make a politicle point
very simplistic rhyme steam
aimed at child and adult audience
educate his weight reader ship
British education prejudice (unintentionally racist) excluding any other history but English history

Question 2

dem tell me
dem tell me
wha dem want to tell me continuation

Answer 2

dialect not standard English opposition to “them “over coming them by using his own dialect b y using Dem show how his protest he believes is going to be victorious
is going to change our way of thinking
repetition of me shows his person experience but ids represent all the immigrant
bold move saying his story I representing many others

Question 3

bandage up me eye with me own history

Answer 3

metaphor not blind he has been told he has been damaged terror got the bandage put around his eye
nothing wrong vision just been obscured
the false view on history
mirrored by the false treatment of his eye
eye is a homophone for I ironic sound pun as his identity is being bandaged
his own history that blinded him
fact about slavery and transportation
positive side of his history that has been tucked away

Question 4

form
toussaint
a slave
which vision
lick back
Napoleon

Answer 4

childish ryhm aaa
restrict Britain was a restrictive experience for him
when he taks about afro carribian history the form changes to ver free verses
the rhymes occur m8ch more quickly and upridictably
enfisising personal freedom limnked to cultural freedom
contrast to the start show the new found freedom by fining out he is history

Question 5

choice of historical example
toussain
Napoleon

Answer 5

which this contrast he is trying to show as the a mer slave is actually more powerful than a concur in Europe
Napoleon couldn’t concur toussaint
shows hoe he can over come the great European historical perspective

Question 6

dem tell me bout Columbus and 1492
but happened to de caribs and de arawaks too

Answer 6

give a sense of guilt about our own history
incredible reruns where done
but we too had our eyes bandaged up irony

Question 7

a healing star

Answer 7

metaphor
muthorligieing Mary secole
making her represent something much moree than her self as tho she isa star in the sky to guide us
he want to do the same but not through violence but through healing
he’s being conciliatory

Question 8

grade nine content

Answer 8

sues made consolations of historically ensuring people as a beacon of hope and tis is what agreed is trying to be

Question 9

but now I am checking out me own history carving out me own identity

Answer 9

being his history he now has a new identity
ends in a cuplit rounding a power off when u have a happy ending
speaking as a role model
carving presenting him as a sculpture
when u carve out your own identity it will be a master piece
think his poem is a work of art bu not just pretty but change your point of view