English Flashcards
What is Spite?
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People
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Tone/Themes
Events
Which poems use creole to show a Caribbean accent?
Half-caste, John Agard and No Problem, Zephaniah
Which poem does this come from?
“Standing on one leg”
Half-caste, John Agard
Which poem is about how language can be used to control, hurt, suppress and demean people?
Half-caste, John Agard
“I half-caste human…
being cast half a shadow”-Half-caste
Which poet came to England from Guyana in 1977?
John Agard
Which poet is a Rastafari and Dub poet?
Benjamin Zephaniah
Which poet refused an OBE because of the impact the British Empire had on the rest of the world?
Benjamin Zephaniah
No problem
“I am positively sure I have…
…no chips on me shoulders.”
Benjamin Zephaniah’s No problem
Who said this?
“Me? I thought, OBE me? Up yours, I thought. I get angry when I hear that word “empire”; it reminds me of slavery, it reminds me of thousands of years of brutality, it reminds me of how my foremothers were raped and how my forefathers were brutalise.”
Benjamin Zephaniah
Which poet was a housewife in Liverpool?
Mary Casey
What aspect of Mary Casey’s poems focus on?
Class prejudice
“How can you tell…
…what class I’m from?”
Mary Casey-class game
Which poet was born in Birmingham?
Benjamin Zephaniah
Which poet was writing during a mass period of unemployment?
Mary Casey
