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- What’s this poem about, literally: who is speaking it, to whom, from where, in what circumstances, on what occasion, for what purpose?
- What’s it about, figuratively? What issues or themes or ideas do you think it dramatizes or elucidates or ponders? What does it seem to be asking us to think about? Does it have an overt or indirect conclusion or “message,” do you think, or isn’t it that simple?
- What aspects of poetic form (e.g., meter or rhythm, rhyme and/or other sound effects, etc.) and/or structure and/or performance (e.g., vocal modulation—volume, timbre, pitch, etc.) do you think are interesting or noteworthy here? Do they somehow help to emphasize or develop the poem’s content?
- What other poems might we usefully compare or contrast this one with, in terms of subject, theme, or style? And/or: do you see this poem as being representative or illustrative of some broader aspect of dub poetry, or of one “wing” or “type” of dub poetry?
- Anything else that you think is remarkable, interesting, or just plain cool about this poem (that the above considerations don’t cover)?
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