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A Comparison between Two poems, 'Half caste' and 'Unrelated Incidents' In the poem 'Half Caste', John Agard (the poet) starts by using Standard English, 'Excuse me Standing on one leg I'm half-caste'. I think the poet chooses to say 'Standing on one leg' to make the impression that he is labelled half-caste. After the first three lines the poet applies phonetic spelling in an Afro-Caribbean style. The poet also looses the concept of using standard punctuation as he hasn't used any full stops, capital letters, e.g. 'picasso', or question marks, e.g. 'wha yu mean when yu say half-caste'. I think that the poet is trying to prove a point that he could have perfectly written the whole poem in Standard English form but he chose not to. I think that he carries this out so he begins to show his identity. The layout of this poem is set in two halves, I think this...

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