The Class Game Analysis

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Compare the way Mary Casey and John Agard present identity in the Class Game and Half Caste: Both poets are showing their identity across to the reader. However they are doing it in different ways. The layout for The Class Game- Mary Casey is a monologue. A monologue is a short, alone speech. This makes it easier for the reader to understand the point of the poem and it makes it more effective. It makes it seem as if they are talking straight at the reader. It has no rhyme scheme. The layout for Half Caste- John Agard is a performance piece as it was written to be read out loud with tone. The poem is made up of three stanzas of different lengths. He also writes in short sentences and no punctuation. This makes it easier to see the non-standard…show more content…
She also uses imagery: ‘Does it stick in your gullet like a sour plum?’ This gives us an unpleasing image of a sour plum stuck in your stomach just like caring and making a big deal out of her class. John Agard’s ‘Half-Caste’ shows us how ridicule people are to think that if you are mixed of things then you are half made: ‘Standing on one leg. I’m half-caste’ He makes this point because he was born in Guyana and is mixed nationality, his mother was Portuguese but born in Guyana and his father was black. He demonstrates the attitude of the kind of people that consider people of mixed things are inferior to themselves. The first stanza is only three lines, and in those three lines he is putting himself across. He gets our attention in the first line: ‘Excuse me’. This is because when someone says ‘Excuse me’ it gets our attention. This gets our attention because we know that they are talking straight at us. So John is doing the same. He is getting our attention which makes us understand that this topic is quite important. John addresses the reader directly making it seem as if the reader is one of the people who look down on those of mixed

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