Booklet of poems from the Clusters anthology for Form V 2021
Contents
No longer mourn for me – William Shakespeare ............................................................... 2
Love’s Farewell – Michael Drayton......................................................................... 3
To Althea, from Prison – Richard Lovelace .................................................................. 4
To Night -Percy Bysshe Shelley............................................................................ 6
Ulysses – Alfred, Lord Tennyson .............................................................................. 8
My Last Duchess – Robert Browning ........................................................................11
The wind begun to rock the grass – Emily Dickinson ..............................................13
Dulce et Decorum Est – Wilfred Owen ..............................................................14
nobody loses all the time – ee cummings ...............................................................15
Refugee Blues – WH Auden .......................................................................17
Assassination – Don L Lee (Haki R Madhubuti) ...................................................19
The Cry of South Africa – Olive Schreiner .......................................................................20
Penguin on the Beach – Ruth Miller ..................................................21
Nightsong City – Dennis Brutus ............................................................................23
Touch – Hugh Lewin ..............................................................................24
Portrait of a Loaf of Bread – Mbuyiseni Oswald Mtshali .................................................26
Lost or Found World – Mongane Wally Serote......................................................27
I have my father’s voice – Chris van Wyk ................................................28
The Tenant – Na Ngulube ..................................................................30
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Shakespearean sonnet - iambic pentameter (5 pairs of stressed, unstressed)
ABAB Rhyme scheme
Main idea : forget me when I'm gone Paradox : asking to be forgotten
No longer mourn for me – William Shakespeare but written a poem that will be
her forever, exists forever
Sonnet 71 William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)
A No longer mourn for me when I am dead
Death bell
B Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Assonance/ alliteration heavy sound,
reinforce somber mood of dying lover
A Give warning to the world that I am fled Died
live
B From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell;
C Nay, if you read this line, remember not---Synecdoche 5
D The hand that writ it; for I love you so,
Selfless love (spared the grief)
C That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot
Grieve / cause sorrow
D If thinking on me then should make you woe.
Interjecti Tone : pathos/ sorrow
on (one/E A O! if, I say, you look upon this verse
two
words) F When I perhaps compounded am (Of the earth)
with clay, 10
exclaim Worthless Don't repeat my worthless name
E Do not so much as my poor name rehearse,
Earth's corruptionLove die with my physical
F But let your love even with my life decay; death
For fear that Sarcastic
G Rhyming Lest the wise world should look into your moan,
Observe your sorrow
couplet Central message : critical for judgemental
G And mock you with me after I am gone. society : protect the lover from feeling pain
Don't mourn so that society doesn't
mock you for his love
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, Love’s Farewell
Idea 61 Michael Drayton (1563 – 1631)
Since there’s no help, come let us kiss and part, -
Nay I have done, you get no more of me;
Anaphora (repetition of words at the
beginning of successive clauses) -
And I am glad, yea, glad with all my heart, reminds audience that he is
heartbroken
That thus so cleanly I myself can free;
Like a religious promise
Lack of intimacy. Absolute (very important/ weighty)
Shake hands for ever, cancel all our vows, 5
And when we meet at any time again, Absolute. Final
Be it not seen in either of our brows
Poet is trying to convince himself
That we one jot of former love retain. that she once loved him
Volta - significant change of idea
long vowel sounds = Slow down pace Love = male (eg : his) relates himself to love
Now at the last gasp of love’s latest breath,
Elements of love
When, his pulse failing, passion speechless lies, 10
When faith is kneeling by his bed of death,
And innocence is closing up his eyes, Love is dying (on its death bed)
With his love dying (given all his passion in hope Tone : Complex and uncertain
for it to be countered - rejected) = lost innocence
(something that he hoped for is gone -- naivety)
-- Rhyming couplet =
- Now if thou would’st, when all have given him over,
Level of urgency Iambic pentameter (purpose: for rhythm of line) Shakespearean sonnet
From death to life thou might’st him yet recover!
Desperate/ passion
Intimacy of Tone (eg: 'thou' )
Clear indication that the poet hopes that their relationship could be (contrast to first stanza - use of
saved. The poet wants to continue the relationship but his love interest 'you')
seems to have a different idea
, 8 beats - tentameter
6 beats - trimeter
4 quartets (octet, 8 lines in stanza)
Booklet of poems from the Clusters anthology for Form V 2021 Structure enhances context (controlled like prison )
ABAB rhythm scheme - structured, repetitive
(controlled) - effect: creates singsong quality
(although context quite serious )
In jail
To Althea, from Prison – Richard Lovelace
because To Althea, from Prison -Gatehouse prison, London
Richard Lovelace (1618 – 1657)
supports king
that isn't in Central message : 'you can trap me in prison, but I am free
power in my mind!' It is impossible to imprison the human mind
Sub - When Love with unconfinèd wings 1
coordinating
conjunction - Confined prison cell
builds up Hovers within my Gates,
main clause Healer Memory of her improves his situation
(purple) And my divine Althea brings
To whisper at the Grates;
Imagining
When I lie tangled in her hair, 5
Entrapment. When he looks into
Tied her eyes, he feels free
And fettered to her eye,
The Gods that wanton in the Air,
Compares himself to Gods. Love is
Know no such Liberty. capitalised/ personified
When he thinks about happiness, drinking with others, these moments
Speaker finds freedom in his imagination and in love brought him him boundless joy. The speaker recalls drinking with men
Not diluted
When flowing Cups run swiftly round who were loyal to the king to the king's health(King Charles I) - even
England though they are denied physical liberty
with water
With no allaying Thames, 10
King Metonymy : figure of speech. The substitution
Without any worries crown'd of the name/attribute for something else meant
Our careless heads with Roses bound,
so
Burns with patriotic fervour
Our hearts with Loyal Flames; Imagination creates unlimited freedom ( in this case, freedom
is celebration)
When thirsty grief in Wine we steep, Drowning their griefs about King's health
When Healths and draughts go free, Without limits
Fishes that tipple in the Deep 15
Freedom to celebrate the King even more than fish are free in the sea.
Know no such Liberty. LoveLace's cups of wine without water from Thames to dilute them
Parenthesis ,, like a cage - caged
Song- bird
When (like committed linnets) I
With shriller throat shall sing The speaker compares himself in prison to song birds in a
cage and can sing more loudly to glorify the greatness of
King Charles. His song/ poem which glorifies the King gives
The sweetness, Mercy, Majesty, him greater freedom than winds. Imagination leads to
political freedom
And glories of my King; 20
When I shall voice aloud how good
He is, how Great should be,
Express his
political Enlargèd Winds, that curl the Flood,
freedom
freer than
nature Know no such Liberty.
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His imagination can soar beyond the physical confines of prison
Stone Walls do not a Prison make, 25
Nor Iron bars a Cage;
The writer compares prison to a retreat where his
Minds innocent and quiet take mind remains free. The speaker can concentrate on
Quiet, excluded place what is important such as love for Althea or
That for an Hermitage. political principles/ ideals. Only angels have as
much freedom as he does
If I have freedom in my Love,
Emotionally free
And in my soul am free, 30
Angels alone that soar above, Only angels like him enjoy such liberty.
Enjoy such Liberty.
Sharing liberty. Goes from knowing to enjoying
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