Afro-Caribbean Poetry.

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AFRO-CARIBBEAN POETRY

In this essay I will be studying the various items of poetry from many

Afro-Caribbean poets. One of the poets is Langston Hughes who was

born in Joplin, Missouri on the first of February 1902. He started

writing poetry after moving to Lincoln, Illinois. The poems I will be

studying are “Mulatto” and “I, Too”.

 The next poet I will be looking at is Grace Nichols. Nichols was born

in Guyana in 1950, she came to England in 1977 this is when she

developed her fiction and verse writing. The poem I will be studying is

“Praise song for my mother”.

The next poet I will look at will be Dr Benjamin Obadiah lqual

Zephaniah, he was born in Birmingham, but he spent most of his

time in Jamaica. After he spent some time in prison he decided to use

his energy for good and educate himself. The poem I will study “I love

me mudder”.

The last poet work I will be looking at will be John Agard. Agard was

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born in Guyana in 1949, the country was still a British colony until

1966. In 1977 Agard moved to England. This is where he became the

light of the new West Indian British dawn of various bardic

compositions. Agard is a poet whom blends calypso styled language

with unique sounding spoken word. The work I will be studying is

“Half-caste”

I have paired the poems up. The pairs either share the same topic,

tone or language. One of the pairs is “Half-caste” by John Agard and

“Mulatto” by Langston Hughes, because they ...

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