Half-Caste by John Agard

2. The first three lines of the poem introduce the main theme. They are a very strong, personnel statement and the rest of the poem revolves around this. The second narrator faces and questions this first statement and continues throughout the poem and is pretty much the whole bulk of the poem.

3. Agard plays on the term “mixed race” by a very distinct statement. He says that no-one can be half of anything, that you canot be half a person, nomater who you are. H

4. Agard personifies the clouds because, as written in the poem, the clouds are of mixed thoughts and ambitions. Agard has given the clouds an unreliable type of character to fit into as in fact the clouds in England are very unreliable and are random in their movements. But in the poem, Agard is almost saying that the clouds act as though they have good and bad days and can choose the outcome of our day. The clouds can sometimes be “Half-Caste”.

Some topics in this essay:
John Agard, Ah Lines, no-one half, , mix cultures,