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Half-Caste by John Agard How effective is the lighthearted ridicule in this poem? In the poem Half-Caste by John Agard the poet uses ridicule to put his point across, he uses this technique very effectively and many times and by the end of the poem you realise how stupid the fact of someone being a Half Caste is. The poem is about a man from the West Indies and is called Half Caste, which means of mixed race. The poem starts off with a verse off three lines all written in Standard English. Even in this very short part we can see the way the poet is using ridicule when he says 'standing on one leg', this is inferring that because he is a 'half-caste' he is only standing on one leg and that only one half the white half of him means anything to most people. It may seem like a ridiculous...

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