 Studying John A. God's poem Half-Cast, let's discuss how you can analyse this poem. The title itself Half-Cast is quite shocking because it refers to an outdated racist term that someone who's half white and half black is half of a human being. The poem itself is written as a dramatic monologue, presumably the person that's speaking has been called this racist term and they are responding. The first sentence uses a lot of assonance of E. The declarative sentence on Half-Cast is quite mocking. The pronouns yourself, you and you, are the speaker speaking presumably to a racist person that's called him Half-Cast. He constantly repeats the term Half-Cast, both to shock us but also to trigger us to wonder what this racist term really means. He then alludes to the noun Picasso, this is the name of a very famous artist. The words red and green to describe how Picasso mixes his paintings refer to the semantic field of colour. He's asking really sarcastically if Picasso mixes his art, that means the art is Half-Cast.