Checking out me history

Question 1

quote 1

Answer 1

dem tell me
dem tell me
what dem want to tell me

Question 2

quote 2

Answer 2

bandage up me eye with me own history/blind me to me own identity

Question 3

quote 3

Answer 3

a healing star/among the wounded/a yellow sunrise/to the dying

Question 4

context

Answer 4

-received a british education
-childhood shaped by colonialism
-much of caribbean poetry parallels the themes agard typically wrote about

Question 5

structure

Answer 5

-diatribe is chaotic and varied
-written in free verse with some set stanzas on european history and some extended stanzas on his own history, breaking through convention
-white history mentioned structurally before black as ironic criticism
-enjambment , refusal to use any punctuation to rebel against education system , punctuation would restrain intensity of emotions