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“HALF-CAST” by John Agard 1. There are two narrative voices in Half-Caste. The first voice of which seems to me to be a ‘cross-race’ person and a distinguishable mix of two different cultures. The second of the voices is someone of black origin and is questioning and arguing the statement that had been made by the first narrator. To me, I see the second voice as a conscience of the first’s mind. 2. The first three lines of the poem introduce the main theme. They are a very strong, personnel statement and the rest of the poem revolves around this. The second narrator faces and questions this first statement and continues throughout the poem and is pretty much the whole bulk of the poem. 3. Agard plays on the term “mixed race” by a very distinct statement. He says that no-one can be half of anything, that you canot be half a person, nomater who you are. H