Checking Out Me History & Mld Flashcards
Theme of
Power
Paragraph 1
First person to show feelings about power
P1 checking out me history
“Dem tell me”
Caribbean dialect repetition
“Dem tell me”
Caribbean dialect repetition
(Checking out me history)
Emphasises how he feels powerless and is seperate from ‘dem’ and their culture
P1 mld
“My last duchess painted on the wall, looking as if she were alive I call”
First person & rhyming couplets
“My last duchess painted on the wall, looking as if she were alive I call”
First person & rhyming couplets
(Mld)
Speaker desire to have power and control
Paragraph 2
Duke has lost power and agard has had no power
P2 chucking out me history
“Dem tell me about lord nelson and Waterloo, but del never tell me about Shaka de great Zulu”
Contrast
“Dem tell me about lord nelson and Waterloo, but del never tell me about Shaka de great Zulu”
Contrast
(Checking out me history)
Demonstrate how Caribbean figures are just as worth in his eyes
P2 mld
“That spot of joy”
Repetition
“That spot of joy”
Repetition
‘Spot’ = blush of wife
Displeased duke is with it
Lost power over her
Paragraph 3
Agard has little power as child
Duke has power which he used extremely
P3 checking out me history
“Bandage up me eye with me own history, blind me to me own identity”
Metaphor
“Bandage up me eye with me own history, blind me to me own identity”
Metaphor
Ironic ‘bandage’ (healing)
Bandage = handicap ‘blind’
P3 mld
“I gave commands then all smiles stopped together”
Euphemism
