checking out me history

• bandage up me eye to my own history


  metaphor for him not being allowed to see his own history

  deliberate attempt to hide his history, image of a bandage is ironic bandages should aid healing but here they have caused blindness

  repeated phrasing shows the heritage and personal identity are connected
• de cow who jump over the moon 


  phenetic spelling of Caribbean accent, narrotors voice links to his idenity.

  use of nursery rhymes shows the irony. makes it seems trivial but also about the tradition of the poems being read out loud.
• i carving out me own identity. 


  ephaptic final word - sums op the main theme

  he verb 'carving' suggests he wants it to last, and the use of the first person implies he is going to create it himself.. Agard uses mixed stanza forms to suggest that he is breaking the confining rules of language.
• the poem looks at how history is taught and the conflict between the facts and the truths which is sometimes obscured by race and gender