These notes based on the poem "Mamma kan ek nie sê nie" by Alta Marincowitz are one of the 12 poems in the IEB setwork for Grade 12. These notes are content specific aimed to give students all-you-need-information in a user friendly way. The notes fully analise the poem with IEB exam questions an...
Die spreker het verwyte (resentments) teenoor haar ma.
Sy voel nie asof haar ma haar ooit wou gehad het nie en sê
dat sy dit reeds voor haar geboorte geweet het. Haar ma i
nie ‘n liefdevolle “mamma” vir haar nie.
The poem is an abstract poem describing someone who
says she can remember things from before birth. She
remembers she was unwanted (for reasons unknown –
the reader can only guess) by her mother. At the end of
the poem she admits that she does not recognise herself
in her mother’s eyes.
, Ek-spreker. Dalk ‘n meisie? (maar daar is geen bewyse nie)
Engel het die baba vir die ma gegee “ingeskop
1. Ek onthou die engel was nie die ma se wens nie.
edge
2. het my van die rand Twyfel (hesitating); die ma is onseker.
Waaroor sou sy twyfel? Dalk om die kind te hou? O
think and weigh
3. van wik en weeg het die engel getwyfel of die kind moet gebore wo
w-alliterasie ➔ beklemtoon die aksie van skop; agressief.
“skop” = geweldadige (violent) aksie
4. afgeskop in jou in kicked me into you
Sounds like maybe the
Klink of die kind didn’t want to be preg
“af” ➔ van die hemel ongewens (unwanted) there was divine interv
was. Sy is verwerp Die engel het “magies
(rejected) geboorte laat gebeur.
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