refrain using his Creole dialect connotes his pride at his identity and the accusatory tone elucidates his anger at the erasure of his culture in a Eurocentric curriculum
"beacon" "healing star" "yellow sunrise"
semantic field of light symbolises importance placed on disregarded history of his culture
"bandage up me eye to me ownhistory"
"bandages" metaphor creates irony as bandages should aid healing, but the Eurocentric curriculum caused blindness and ignorance to his cultural identity
"I carvingoutmeidentity"
personal possessive pronouns connotes how he will become accountable for educating himself and celebrating his identity because the colonial authorities were too prejudiced to do so
"cow whojump over de moon" "de dish ran awaywith de spoon"
Rhyming couplets and regular quatrains to create a childish and therefore mocking tone. It mirrors the harsh and oppressive way Agard was taught about Western history.
AO3: Agard grew up in the British colony of Guiana, so has a first hand experience of the oppressive whitewashed curriculum
italicises "Toussaint" and "Mary Seacole" to highlight importance
