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IEB poetry notes fir Lost of found world by Mongane Wally Serote
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detailed IEB poetry notes fir Lost of found world by Mongane Wally Serote. matric exam.
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Lost OrWally FoundSerote 1944-
World
Skies of truth are now scenes metaphor
At the mercy of my curtain eyes, the poet is explaining how the sky
represent the harsh truth/
I blink
wink often more often, reality and his eyes are the
To draw the curtains curtains that he closes to block
harsh sounds this truth out.
To cut and forget the skies
he is trying to forget it but it is too much to shut out, he can't escape it
The sea of identity is tears, painful
the poet is comparing the identity of people
*the poet expresses
his activism of black
consciousness
A too salty expression to a deep salty sea
through writing. his
he is searching of ways to express his identity identity is linked to
Bleeding my blue veins that's my pen,
the words flow out of his veins onto the page like the pen he uses
his writing
1 On the loose sand that shall sip,
personification: no one will see the words that he
writes because they will be swept away
2 And the wind shall help cover it,
the two images created here highlight how the
From my needy arteries. poets words of activism were pushed aside. The
apartheid government didn't want his activism to
spread so they sent him into exile.
*CHANGE IN TONE*
Mountains of hope are flowers,
the poet uses a metaphor to compare how big their hope is
Passes attracting cars like bees,
simile highlights how busy, the modern world is
For the precious modern honey,
represents whole community
poet explains how humans need money like bees need honey. the business of it all
that is money.
synecdoche: one flower
poet is refering to how the people of colour
the modern world destroys identity had to leave their rural homes to join the
This modern madness
alliteration
busy economical world and work to provide
for their families back home. in this process
they were diluted of their culture and lost
Snaps flowers from their stems were
sibilance
their sense of identity and belonging. they
neither lost nor found in the world.
paradox: dead bodies walking.
Leaves dry dead bodies, walking up the street
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