Use the clues to work out which poem.

The dance symbolises the oppression of the people and their rising up again

The sound of cars is the sound of the waves in the Caribbean

Morning is the time of day but also puns on 'mourning' – for what?

The rhythm is strong, especially in the repeated chorus, and suggests accompaniment to dance

Water can be a holy gift

 

Apartheid has ended but nothing has changed –why?

 

Stopping at lights leads to reflections on equality, status and democracy

 

 

Rationalism and irrationalism come together to try to relieve the pain

 

Evil is in love and tenderness is in evil

neither is 100% of human character

 

This poem is a history test

 

'The burning ground' is a metaphor in which poem and for what?

 

Maternal love shows through the pain

Link the correct bold font and italic font phrases; you may find it helpful to number both lists

'that small gulf / in the high seas of this democracy'

My father, sceptic, rationalist,/Trying every curse and blessing

At the stoplight waiting for the light

'Laughter is bitter to the burned mouth'

'a tiny glow worm tenderness'

 

'cold telescopic eyes'

'his crumpled pillow waves'

 

'Port Jackson trees'

'Out of the dark/and the dumb gods are raising me'

 

'down/down/down……up/up/up'

'screaming in the liquid sun'

'The skin cracks like a pod'

 

They hunt down and kill with no feeling for other living beings ('Vultures') – refers to the techniques of the nazis too

The waves are the Caribbean waves in his dreams, but the cars of the north circular in reality

Imported – do not belong in S Africa; note the foreigness of 'haute cuisine' too

 

coming up out of the hold; coming up out of oppression (the civil war/civil rights movement)

 

 

The light suggests stasis – no movement towards equality …and yet, the lights will change (to unite or further separate?)

What were…… Napalm in Vietman burned every part of the body it touched

The children shriek with excitement under the gushing water from the burst pipe – a vivid metaphor as water gives life as well as the sun

 

Captured and put in the hold; liberation and equality

The metaphor suggests a very small but nevertheless still there presence of good

('Vultures')

Two Scavengers…the people may as well be distinct islands on the high seas…linking them up is as challenging as sailing between islands

The educated father is desperate when his wife is in pain and abandons rationalism

A strong visual image of the drying effect of the hot sun, suggesting the scarcity of water