checking out me history x london

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checking out me history x london

Similarities

  • Based around the power of humans and how its misuse can affect us all negatively.
  • Explore the power of those in authoritative roles such as the government.
  • Blake challenges the church for not helping the poor - "blackening church" and Agard challenges the authority of governments through phonetic spelling of "Dem tell me" to show the he was opposed to the British education system of the time.

Differences

  • Agard uses ‘dem’ to reflect his anger about the miseducation of his personal identity.
  • Blake explores the effect power has on an emotional and mental aspect.
  • Agard’s poem ends with the narrator ‘carving me own identity’ whereas London accepts that it is cyclical and apart of life which is inescapable.
  • Agard focuses on people within Black History, and talks of them in italics to draw emphasis to them, which contradicts what Agard would have been taught in school
  • Blake uses a cylical structure, as suffering is the focus at the start and end of the poem. The quatrains also show how the suffering is repetitive, and nothing is being done to change it.

Overall comparison

Both London and Checking Out Me History are poems that express the poets anger towards the misuse of power by those with authority, but the main difference is that while Agard shows a solution, Blake does not, showing how they have different viewpoints on if it is possible to change.

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