While both poems deal with the subject of immigrants in Britain and race, they do this in a very different way using different effects and techniques to achieve a different feeling in each poem. Page 3 – U0388700 Both Agard and Zephaniah are of Caribbean roots and are proud to be as this is clear to see in their poetry. Agard was born in Guyana in 1949 and immigrated to Britain in 1977, whilst Zephaniah was actually born in Birmingham, England in 1958 to Jamaican parents. Both men are referred to as dub-poets and are well known figures in contemporary English Literature.
References Agard, J. Listen Mr Oxford Don cited in Making Sense of the Arts – Resource Booklet 1, (2011) Milton Keynes, The Open University, p 21. Zephaniah, B. (1992) City Psalms, Newcastle, Bloodaxe Books cited in Making Sense of the Arts – Resource Booklet 1, (2011) Milton Keynes, The Open University, p15. Word Count for Task 1 = 864 Task 2 Write no more than 200 words in total for this task, which covers the past, present and future. Past: give at least one example of a way in which your learning skills have improved during this module.
I have very much enjoyed this module and feel I have improved my abilities to use the study diamond in relation to different pieces of the Arts. I also feel my note taking skills have improved a lot throughout this module. Present: give at least one example of a strength and at least one example of a weakness in your learning skills. I feel a strength of mine is that I am able to pick out key points in a text, especially in the poetry section and relate these to the points of the study diamond.
I struggled with the History chapter of the book and didn’t fully understand the analysis of the primary and secondary sources. Page 4 – U0388700 Future: give at least one example of a way in which you could improve a specific skill in future. I would like to try and improve my skill of being able to select relevant evidence from a resource and applying this to the argument I am trying to make. I feel I would be able to improve this by further analysing the resource and also by researching any contextual information about that resource. Word Count for Task 2 = 150
