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Comparative essay between two poems namely, Half - Caste by John Agard and Unrelated Incidents by Tom Leonard.
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This is a comparative essay between two poems namely, Half - Caste by John Agard and Unrelated Incidents by Tom Leonard. You can clearly see before you begin to read these poems that they are set out differently to your average poem. For example in Unrelated Incidents that there are no more than four words per poem. The punctuation in Unrelated Incidents is based on the phanetic way of spelling, this means that you spell the way speak and pronounce words. The poems is also meant to be spoken in a Glaswegian accent. In Half - Caste it's spelt and meant to be spoken in a Caribbean Patois. In both poems they're defending the way that they are (The colour of his skin in Half - Caste and his accent in Unrelated Incidents). In Half - Caste he defends himself by saying that you don't discriminate against a Picasso painting or a...
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