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Touch by hugh lewin (annotated)
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View an annotated poem that delves into the genre of protest poetry during the apartheid period. Touch by Hugh lewin
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Explores Ambiguity of touchviolence /
Not up to speaker intimacy
touch
pysical
• ( Jain T so desperate it
• can be anyone
invitation
murmur
.com paired to
being touched / unwelcomed)
emotional appeal 1 sympathy) handel w
tenderness / trauma)
recipricatiorinot forced / threatening] Structure
to feel human •
Free verse
Autobiographical •
short lines
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simple Audience
language
-
•
no punctuation
separated tenjambement
w events
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.
unclean
rejected fgoiri g against
ideologies
) races
} explaining
cliffs of touch
1.2s Repetition
uncontrolled Emphasise relentlessness indentations
g.
^ -
^^ ( structure)
fists
-
Tris signify longing for the
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"
mimics
" "
vowel
ea
long
sounds sound of fists
flying future /
remembering
--
pain
desperation
the past
intimate unwanted
.
plosive = asoiult
on
senses
intamatetdehumanising
→ s long sounds
longevity of process
violation
wants to desire not dread
un
do what other humans
do
% desperation tplease
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