poetry
'checking out me history' in a nutshell?
Agards's eeducation was controlled by the powerful britiah gov, who only taught him about white European history. He found his own power by learning about figures in black history.
where did John Agard grow up?
Agard grew up in Guyana under a colonial rule of the british government
what voice is the poem written in?
the poem is written in first person and in dialect
what phrase is repeated in the poem and what is the effect?
repetition of 'dem tell me' - suggests the repeated cycle of his education.
how is structure used to represent freedom and restriction?
quatrains and rhyming in the stanzas on his education suggest control and restriction. enjambment and free verse in the stanza on black history suggets freedom.