Revision for half caste by john agard marcus linfoot

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The document provides background information on the poet John Agard and analyzes his poem "Half Caste." Agard, who is of mixed race, wrote the poem to criticize the term "half-caste" used to describe people of mixed race. Through comparisons to art and nature, the poem argues that describing someone as "half" is absurd and implies they are less than a whole person. The poem uses humor, repetition, and a Caribbean dialect to condemn the view that racial origins define a person.

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