Power and Conflict poetry - Checking out me History

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man who discover de balloon and de cow who jump over de moon Dem tell me bout de dish ran away with de spoon 25 but dem never tell me bout Nanny de maroon AGAG English Develop your learning on ADA English e-Library e-Library •The simple rhyme scheme emphasises the silliness of the white history he's been taught. Rhymes build up to last line - highlights what he wasn't taught. 30 fire-woman struggleSuggests that she is passionate. Linked to warmth and to seems to freedom river Spiritual person. She's also associated with hope and liberty. Dem tell me bout Lord Nelson and Waterloo European coloniser compared to native ci but dem never tell me bout Shaka de great Zulu Amenican cultures that resisted slavery -restriction contrasted with freedom. Also a Dem tell me bout Columbus and 1492 reminder that there's always more than one 35 but what happen to de Caribs and de Arawaks too version of history, but he's only. always been taught one - that of De 40 45 Nanny see-far woman Linked to vision-She can see into the future of mountain dream GCSE ENGLISH LITERATURE PAST AND PRESENT: POETRY ANTHOLOGY Dem tell me bout Florence Nightingale and she lamp and how Robin Hood used to camp makes Florence Nightingale's work Dem tell me bout ole King Cole was a merry ole soul Sound unimportant and basic. "Linked to folklore and nursery C but dem never tell me bout Mary Seacole rhyme chakermines her, characters in stanza- From Jamaica she travel far to the Crimean War →Seems more real and relevant than the scenes of white history. she volunteer to go and even when de British said no →→ she still brave the Russian snow a healing star among the wounded a yellow sunrise to the dying 2→ Suggests shes defiant and brave Metaphor links her to the wider universe. Images Sung "suggest light , hope, str Repeats phonetic lines from first stanza- 50 Dem tell me Dem tell me wha dem want to tell me reminds us of the narrators anger. But now I checking out me own history I carving out me identity → Emphatic final word - sums up the main theme He's going to use his own history to create his identity.