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Summary My Father's Voice - IEB Poem Analysis (Gr 12)

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The IEB poem, My Father's Voice, written by Chris Van Wyk, is analysed in-depth and in great detail in this document. The figures of speech, structures, line by line analysis, stanzas and rhyme schemes are provided and elaborated, offering a greater understanding of the poem. The document is in Eng...

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Besides the physical traits the boy
I have my father’s voice too
Stanza 5
inherited, he also inherited the voice,
he too has a temper and shouts like
his father
and his fuming temper

and I shout as he does.



But I spew the words out
Stanza 6




“spew”- pours out in large quantities
Unlike the father, he uses words that
are carefully chosen, because he
writes poetically in pairs of alliteration
These are poetic sound devices

and an air of assonance. The example of assonance reinforces
the statement.



The words “everything” and “except”
The poet has his own means of Everything a poet needs are contradictory.
Stanza 7




expression and is still his own
persona. His father has given him Word used when someone leaves
passion. my father has bequeathed me something to a beneficiary, the form
of a will.
except the words
The poet states that the father
leaves “everything”, “except the
words” which is paradoxical
because the words are the most
important part of the poem.

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