Poem Benjamin Zephaniah - The British incl questions PDF

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Benjamin Zephaniah The British (serves 60 million)

Take some Picts, Celts and Silures And let them settle, Then overrun them with Roman conquerors.

* The first known tribes living in Great Britain

* Romans conquered Great Britain in 43

5 Remove the Romans after approximately 400 years * Viking-descendantsefterkommere from France Add lots of Norman French to some Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Vikings, then stir vigorously. *Germanic tribes (Angles=English, Jutes=Jutland) Mix some hot Chileans, cool Jamaicans, Dominicans, 10Trinidadians and Bajans with some Ethiopians, Chinese, Vietnamese and Sudanese. Then take a blend of Somalians, Sri Lankans, Nigerians And Pakistanis, 15Combine with some Guyanese And turn up the heat. Sprinkle some fresh Indians, Malaysians, Bosnians, Iraqis and Bangladeshis together with some 20Afghans, Spanish, Turkish, Kurdish, Japanese And Palestinians Then add to the melting pot. Leave the ingredients to simmer. 25 As they mix and blend allow their languages to flourish Binding them together with English. Allow time to be cool. 30 Add some unity, understanding, and respect for the future, Serve with justice And enjoy.

35Note: All the ingredients are equally important. Treating one ingredient better than another will leave a bitter unpleasant taste. Warning: An unequal spread of justice will damage the people and cause pain. Give justice and equality to all. From Benjamin Zephania’s poem collection Wicked World! (2000) http://www.benjaminzephaniah.com/content/245.php

Eng: UK / RA

The Jamaican-British poet Benjamin Zephaniah (born 1958 in Birmingham, England)

TASKS: 1) The poem looks like another text type. Which text type? The text type looks like a recipe. The ingredients are different nationalities. 2) They poem is built around a metaphor. Explain and also list all the words related to the metaphor. The metaphor is: “They are cooking. They are cooking a dish”. The real meaning is: “They are cooking/building a nation”. He makes the different nationalities look like ingredients which together forms the british identity/culture. They are united by the English language. This has especially happened because of the imperialism. The influense (The another nationalities) comes from colonies. 3) Watch this video which the poet Zephaniah did with a group of students: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq13dvtZjP4 Why does the content of the poem and the setting in the video match? 40 It matches since there are different races/nationalities in the video. Moreover, there is a roman soldier in tha background. Furthermore, they are eating the dish they “have been cooking”. 4) What might the poet’s intention with the poem be? To create equality and justice for every race, nationality, and person. An unequal spread of justice will damage the people. 5) Read about poem analysis here: http://textanalysis.dk/wordpress/index.php/texttypeshow-do-i-analyze-my-text/fiction-texts/poem-song-text/ Then formulate six questions about the poem – each question must contain an analytical term. How many stanzas is there in the poem? 11 Is there rhyme in the poem? No.

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What is the style of the poem? And is it simple or complex? He uses neutral style without complex words. This means that the stile is also simple. What is the main theme? Nationality, equality. What does the poem want to communicate to us? To create equality and justice for every race, nationality, and person. An unequal spread of justice will damage the people. Are there metaphor/personifications in the poem? Yes. Example: The metaphor is: “They are cooking. They are cooking a dish”. The real meaning is: “They are cooking/building a nation”. The nationalities are ingredients...