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Knowledge Base: English Poetry from Around the World Year 9 | Autumn Term 1
Poems
Poets
1.1
Limbo
Edward Kamau Brathwaite: A Caribbean poet and scholar.
1.2
Nothing's Changed
Tatamkhulu Afrika: Ismail Joubert, commonly known as Tatamkhulu Afrika, which is Xhosa for Grandfather Africa, was a South African poet and writer.
1.3
Island Man
Grace Nichols: A Guyanese poet who moved to Britain in 1977, before which she worked as a teacher and journalist.
1.4
Blessing
Imtiaz Dharker: A Pakistan-born British poet, artist and video film maker.
Context
2.1
slave ships
Ships used during transatlantic slave trade.
2.2
apartheid
Policy or system of segregation or discrimination on grounds of race.
2.3
District Six
A former inner-city residential area in Cape Town, South Africa.
2.4
Caribbean
The Caribbean is a region of the Americas that consists of the Caribbean Sea, its islands and the surrounding coasts.
2.5
India
A country in South Asia. It is the seventhlargest country by area, the second-most populous country.
2.6
San Francisco
A city in the State of California in the United States of America.
1.5 Two Scavengers in a Truck Lawrence Ferlinghetti: An American poet, painter, social activist.
1.7 Vultures Chinua Achebe: A Nigerian novelist, poet, and critic.
1.6
Night of the Scorpion
Nissim Ezekiel: An Indian Jewish poet, actor, playwright, editor and art critic.
1.8
Half-Caste
John Agard: An Afro-Guyanese playwright, poet and children's writer, now living in Britain.
3. Comparative Connective Table
Similarities General Comparisons
General Comparisons
Contrasts
similarly / likewise / as well as equally / in the same way
also / both / in comparison / while
in contrast / whereas / however / on the other hand / alternatively / but
4. Additional Information
4.1
Picasso
Pablo Picasso was Spanish and known as the most dominant and influential artist of the 1st half of the 20th century.
4.4
Port Jackson Trees
A common evergreen shrub or small tree.
4.2
Haute Cuisine
A French term that literally translates as “high cooking”. It is characterised by themeticulous preparation and careful presentation of food at a high price.
4.5
bunny chow
A fast food dish consisting of a hollowed-out loaf of white bread filled with curry.
4.3
Quasimodo
A fictional character from the novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo. He was born with a hunchback and feared by the townspeople as a sort of monster.
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