👨🏾‍🤝‍👨🏼 checking out me history quotes

Question 1

• checking out me history
• repetition
• accusatory tone and anger of the miseducation

Answer 1

‘Dem tell me’

Question 2

• checking out me history
• injury-like connotations
• metaphor
• deliberately held back to his own history

Answer 2

‘Bandage up me eye with me own history / Blind me to me own identity’

Question 3

• checking out me history
• rhyming of ‘oon’
• nursery rhyme reference mock the presentation of history
• semantic field of childhood implies that the speaker feels he has lost his childhood

Answer 3

‘balloon / moon / spoon / Nanny de maroon’

Question 4

• checking out me history
• metaphor
• positive natural influences
• nanny de maroon offer path to freedom for slaves

Answer 4

‘hopeful stream / to freedom river’

Question 5

• checking out me history
• strenous task to actively seek out find our identity
• at the end of the poem so the speaker has a new-found sense of his identity

Answer 5

‘But now I checking out me own history / I carving out me identity’