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Poetry From Other Cultures I am going to compare the two poems 'Half-caste' by John Agard and 'Unrelated Incidents' by Tom Leonard. I will compare the two poems and state what they mean and what the poets are attempting to say. The first poem 'Half-caste' is about someone who is trying to explain what some people think that half-caste is but he has taken a humorous but serious tone to writing the poem. The Second poem 'Unrelated incidents' is someone attempting to make fun of the BBC newsreaders by speaking as a newsreader but in his own Scottish accent instead of Received Pronunciation (a neutral accent). Firstly the languages used in both poems are written phonetically, this means that they are not written in 'text book English'. For example in 'Unrelated incidents' one of the lines said 'way ti spell' which means the way to spell and likewise in 'Half-caste'...

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