Checking Out Me History Flashcards
“Dem ____ me, ____ tell me, ___ dem ____ to ____ me”
“Dem tell me, dem tell me, wha dem want to tell me”
“Carving out __ ______”
“Carving out me identity”
“a _______ star”
“a healing star”
“Bandage ___ me ____ with __ own _______”
“Bandage up me eye with my own history”
Context
-Agard was born in Guyana and received a British education, when it became an independent country he realised how much of his identity had been deprived
-The poem is written from the perspective of someone from a Caribbean culture as the title is written in Creole dialect
-Use of historical figures important to black and colonised people show Agards passion and pride towards his own history
Structure
poem is in two distinct styles through use of italics, shows the separation between the history he was taught and black history.
Caribbean creole dialect
