Nightsong - Study guides, Study notes & Summaries

Two poems are annotated on the same page. The annotations have been made digitally and add a deeper explanation for each stanza. Please note, this is how I have interpreted the poem. There are multiple ways to understand the poem. Please use this to assist you in developing your own opinions and ideas about the poem.

These notes were made using videos from youtube (Mrs M teaches English) as well as notes taken down in class. It is a line by line analysis of the poem with extra information at the end about the poet as well as overall structure.

IEB Poetry: Poem Analysis and Summaries - Love's Farwell: Michael Drayton - To Althea, from Prison: Richard Lovelace - Refugee Blues: W H Auden - To the Night: Percy Bysshe Shelley - I have my Father's Voice: Chris van Wyk - Lost or Found World: Mongane Wally Serote - The Tenant: Na Ngulube - Assassination: Don L Lee - Ulysses: Alfred, Lord Tennyson - My Last Duchess, Robert Browning - Penguin on the Beach: Ruth Miller - The Cry of South Africa: Olive Schreiner - Portrait of a Loaf of Bread: M...

The Complete poetry resource ( sixth edition) "No longer mourn for me when i am dead" To the night" "lost or found word" and many more...

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.

Detailed notes on IEB English home language poems from several sources

Detailed Annotations on all 19 IEB English HL poems.

IEB English home language poem notes: Nightsong city, The tenant, Assassination