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detailed summary of the poem namaqualand after the rain.
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Transformaion- Apcutheid in EouthAficaNamaguoland after rain - Plomer purctuatin is used
sease^Again the veld revives, Imbued with yric rainsmetaphor to suppttheimacoy
And sap re-sweefening dry stalks L7Stalt
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Smal roots explode in strings ofstargteiatien
Each bulb gives up its dream. brust out The clashes at theend
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Hoñey drips from orchid throats.
Jewels each racemo treeaed
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and micolorns inconas
Ihe desert sighs ot dawn2eenificcti cn the First t o StanzCS
As in another hemisphere ocs eing
The temple lotus breaks her buds.
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From rocks beveined with metals: baunds joytuiy towards its
Conclusion.
Far in the gaunt karroo
That winter earth denudes, the hagy and ehnasise
Captures alicratt
rOSmatIronstone caves give back the burr the moverent
OF lambs in muttitudes, the echoes Fbeginning to burst
maces it euen louder, dcroE the jandscae
Grass waves again where drought
Bleached every upland kraal.
A peach-tree shoots along the wind
metaphor
Pink voleys through abroken wal"
And wiloWs growing round the dam
May noW be s e e n g i on branChes
with al their troceries of twigs
Just hesitating to be green, conflict
there is beauty in eVcytnun is natural
Soon to be hung with colonies
Al swaying with the leaves.
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The pretty loxia weaves.
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