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IEB Summary - Namaqualand
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  • 12th Grade

This is a document from the poem Namaqualand. A poem that is often mentioned during grade 12 and may come up in an exam. This poem can be difficult to understand so this is just a building block to knowing more from and about the poem.

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  • August 23, 2024
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  • 2023/2024
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A poem about Namaqualand, written by a South African poet (who went to St John's)
- Celebrates the beauty of nature as well as the power
- Nature’s Cycle of Renewal
- Called Namaqualand after the rain
- This place is a desert and when the rain comes it is transformed into a beautiful
carpet of flowers
- Plumber captures this wonderment of nature in a lyrical way - this is how the
structure contributes to meaning

THE STRUCTURE
- 8 quatrains
- Regular rhyme scheme (ABCB, DEFE)
- The metre alternates between iambic teratmeter and iambic tetrameter
- This metrical pattern is a hymnal pattern which is appropriate for a lyrical poem
because it acknowledges the beauty and rebirth in nature

Powerful Diction
Personification
Metaphor
Sound Devices



Again the veld revives,
● The opening word emphasises the natural cycle in the African veld
● The word revive means that the land is being revitalised and brought back to
life
Imbued with lyric rains,
● Rain restores and renews
● Imbued
○ The land is saturated with the rain
● The rains are described as lyric, thus the sound of the rain is melodious and
harmonious
And sap re-sweetening dry stalks
● Sibilance is used
○ Emphasises the power of the sweet sap to revive the dry stalks
■ Sap has a sweetness (glucose) in it, which aids the growth of
plants
Perfumes the quickening plains;
● First word - alludes to the beautiful smell of the flowers

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