 Studying John Egard's poem, Half-Cost, here is how you can analyse this poem. He mentions Tarkovsky and this noun is a reference to the famous classical music composer. He refers to Oxymoron black and white to talk about how when Tarkovsky is performing the piano he uses both keys, much like, for example, black and white racers mix to make a mixed race person. He asks, does this make this action unnatural? He mocks the idea of being half-cast, meaning that you're half a person, by saying that he's listening with half of his ear and half of his eye. He uses ear, eye and hand, which belong to a semantic field of body parts to show how he is dehumanised for just being labelled in terms of his race. The repetition of the word dream is quite humorous. He's mocking the idea that if he's half a person then he dreams half a dream. Yet the repetition of whole here shows if people are open minded to see how narrow the racism can be then maybe they might understand the world better.