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Portrait of a Loaf of Bread (Oswald)

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This is an annotated copy of the poem. This poem is one of the poems that the IEB has prescribed for the 2020 Matric year. Annotations provide brief snippets of extra information.

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  • August 22, 2020
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Portrait of a Loaf of Bread

By Mbuyiseni Oswald Serote (1940-)

Look back to the rolling fields 1
waving golden-topped wheat stalks
mowed by the reaper’s scythe,
bundled into sheaves
carted to the mill 5
and ground into flour.
Kneaded into mountains of dough
To be churned by rollers
And spat into pans as red hot
As Satan’s cauldron. 10


Brought to the café,
warmly wrapped in cellophane,
by “Eat Fresh Bread” bakery van;
for the waiting cook
to slice and toast 15
to butter and to marmalade
for the food-bedecked breakfast table

Whilst the labourer
with fingers caked with
wet cement of a builder’s scaffold 20
mauls a hunk and cold drink
and licks his lips and laughs
“Man can live on bread alone.”

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