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Jamaican English - In A Nutshell For some poets, the use of patois "patwa" is crucial, not only as a means of indigenous expression in African-Caribbean poetry but also as a programmatic statement. The purely linguistic opposition "vernacular vs. standard language" or "creole English vs. Standard English" is extended to mean "language of the people vs. language of the establishment." Some poets regard the use of patois as an act of resistance to the European domination of Caribbean culture. They see themselves as subversive linguistic agents in the continuous struggle against notions that denounce creole as "bastard language," "baby talk," "broken English," "bad English" etc. Terms like these are in no way anachronistic remnants of colonial history is illustrated by the fact that, even today, Patois is regarded by a great number of people as "dirty" language, as an expression of social and intellectual backwardness. Louise Bennett's was the first poet to...

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