Checking out me hsitory Flashcards
summary
spekaer expains eachers eaching him about hisory expressies as ense he feels ignoran o how own ideni , speaker presne as carribean brihish man .
lots key but distant dated in british hisotyr and nusery rhymes he been atugh t.
alo gives informitonof nny he marron and mryseacole all iconic Caribbean historicla ihres he ws enevr hought .
end by declrign he is fidnign about his own hsiory for hismef .
key aspects of the poem .
agard uses carribean dilect to creare a discinictle personal voice .
conrats ht eprpnouns ‘dem ‘ and ‘me ‘ t show reclamaiton of powe r.
strucutre shoes how crribean hsitroy is sepaarate fro european .
settign england
england is represneed a colonoal power and impoisng its history on the speaer regardless of his actualheritiage .
Intexual referecnes liek cow jumped over moon is imporant as is eeuroccentric view of hisory and to aard is is jus as ficitional and ridicult as nr=urdser rhyme ss
simplisc rhym e cheme , he is mocking how hisotry is presented as childish and insignificant o agard .
theme of poem is idenitty
he represnets hsitory as a key to understanding idnenityt , caribben dialece like dem to show his rela identi .
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he has been delibealey blinded form hi identity ‘abanagded’ ‘blided’ show hie experineces lack of hnwledge of hitory as a kind og disabilith
strucutre
stanzas end in names of crriean emphasisises significance of carribeann histor rhymes build u to tan imporant member in cribean hsitor . no puncutaro , puncuttion is restirction a set of rules enforec ad=nd told we mus learn nd bide bgy , agarrd not uses it is agard breakg thorugh these restricitions , fidnig his own identity .
the eurocentric view of history only alkd abtbritish hsitory hose how hae power cahnging ounderstadning of identy .
strong rhym nd form higighing htishosuld be remebrer criticism of those hwve segreated white nad blck history .
quotes
‘dem el me’ carrieban dialenct hsows clear idneity
rpetio of this hsows dullness of hsiry taugh in uk no balck hsiotry .
they tell me jusxtaposion of pronous how ho he speker is taking back he poer form them .
‘bandage up me eye - metaphor imposed visual impairmen demosntrates tat beignig kept ignornt of his history is disablign .
language
when talking about brithish histor the information is plain and factual contrastign with imaegyr rich carrbieam ,materia; . ending each stanza with carribean figure empahsises improanc e.
aspiratinal semanitc field creared when he alks about fire woman , how she has infleucned agar .
-heaing star’ meaphors of home rooted in anture .
last quote i carving out mye idneity
rweptio of i assers spekers freeodm .
metaphor of creful creating shows how he hismelf has sculpted his idenity overtime ‘scuk’ shows it was uet idfficult hesearched for it . .
