Comparing Poems 'Unrelated Incidents And Half-Caste'

Homework – Compare how poets explore language in ‘Unrelated Incidents’ and one other poem.
The language employed in poems ‘Unrelated Incidents’ and ‘Half-Caste’ effectively portrays the discrimination both poets receive. The writers’ use of language shows how they feel and how they deal with the discrimination.
Both poems show positive diction. ‘Unrelated Incident ‘ is written as third person, making it feel we are being directly spoken to and half-caste is written in first person so the reader can empathise with the characters feelings.
‘Unrelated incidents’ is about the poet presenting himself as a BBC broadcaster with a Glaswegian accent. The poets point is to say that just because someone has regional accent and not a RP accent does
“this is thi/six a clock/news”. The reader gets to experience the beginning of the poem as if it was the real news-caste. As the poem moves on, the Standard English begins to fade away and becomes more dialectal. “thi reason/a talk wia/BBC accent”. The language used here shows that the newsreader is trying to get some other message across and not the actual news. Therefore the reader will want to read on faster to see what this message is. The poet also uses informal language. “Scruff”. This type of language is dialectal, they are used to show which social group the persona belongs. He values the way that he speaks and feels that it is good enough to use in his
it is used sarcastically by the character to apologise for being different. The poem is a dramatic monologue. Monologues are often used to make comments about society as they are quite direct in tone and use the second person. Punctuation often is not used because it is supposed to sound like speech, which is not punctuated. Alternatively, it could be seen as a challenge to grammatical conventions just as the poet is challenging societies views. The poem also presents the reader with a series of funny images. “One leg”. This humorous tone shows that the poet does not take the people who term with half-caste seriously. He tells them to open their minds and use their whole brain to see for what he is – a human being. The poet wishes people could see with their “whole eye”. This metaphoric phrase means he wishes people could see things as they really are. Repetition of the word “half”, and the many different contexts the poet puts it into, emphasises the stupidity of using the term ‘half-caste’. Aural imagery is also used. “So spiteful dem don’t want de sun pass”. The constant sound of ‘S’ and ‘D’ can help to create the tone and influence the reader to maintain this tone. Back in ‘Unrelated Incidents’ assonance is used. “this/is ma trooth/yooz doant no/this trooth”. Here, the constant sound of ‘O’ makes the tone faster and gets the reader to read it fast as