Checking out me history - John Agard

• ' dem tell me '

  shows the control white people have over history.
• Simple and childish rhyme scheme which mocks British history
• Carribean dialect - refuses to conform to the rules of english identity
• Lack of punctuation suggests freedom
• ' I carving out me identity'

  Carving takes time and resilience. Seeking his own identity
• Form: rhyming quatrains - in order to mock British history

  • lack of punctuation - refusal to give in to restraint of the system