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Original meaning of this word (Yankee) –
was construed as negative. NB: differs from
the refrain “Bajan Yankee” – what is the effect?
Style
refrain - exclamatory (and 2nd last line)
Effect:
1. emphasize point, focus, or criticism
2. create expectancy after 2nd use
3. invitation for reader to join the persona in mocking the “Bajan Yankee”
catalogue -
Effect:
1. presents typical Bajan things which the “Bajan Yankee” can’t/doesn’t do
2. each item is something typical of Barbados which the person being mocked
has supposedly rejected
Would the poem be improved if:
1. things of the same kind were put in the same verse; for example, all foods
together?
2. a wider range of typically Bajan things was used?
Tone – humorously satirical; ridicules in a light-hearted way; pokes fun at
Language Variety - Bajan dialect
Effect:
1. contrast the persona’s patriotism with the pretentious behaviour of the
persona that is being ridiculed/satirized