Checking out me history

• Dem tell me


  Us vs. Them
• Bandaged up me eye with me own history


  Forced myopia
• Dem tell me about 1066 and all dat


  Vague and dismissive, not as important to him
• Italics


  A motif to show they should be valued and celebrated
• Cow who jumps over de moon

  Trivialises his cult
• De dish ran away with de spoon


  Shows the imbalance in significance in the education system
• But dem never tell me

  The discrimination
• A healing star … a yellow sunrise to the dying

  Light metophor, shows pride
• But now I checking out me own history

  Taking his history into his own hands
• I carving out me identity

  Forcefull, triamphunt ending
• Key themes


  • identity
  • pride
  • culture
  • colonialism
  • us vs. Them
• Comparison poems


  • tissue
  • the emigree
  • london
  • ozymandius
  • charge of the light brigade