John agard
- Carribean - lives in England - married to Grace Nichols
John is exploring the worth placed on someone who is described using the phrase 'half-caste'
Dialect - different grammar - John uses Creole dialect in Half Caste
Accent - different pronounciation
- In 1980s we judged people strongly on their accent - led to a big movement to stop it
- This is an opinioned poem - telling people to think about what they say before they say it
- Uses a pun between overcast and half-caste (line 15-23)
- Uses very short lines - emphatic
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