Language for Checking Out Me History

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  • Language for Checking Out Me History
    -Imagery of fire and light used in all three stanzas regarding black historic figures: "Toussaint de beacon," "Fire Woman", "Yellow Sunrise".
    -Uses non-standardised phonetic spelling ("Dem tell me wha dem want"), to represent his own powerful accent and mixes Caribbean Creole dialect into standardised English.
    -"I carving out me own identity": metaphor for the painful struggle to be heard, and to find his identity.