Poetry Essay Essay

Vocabulary Winds takes a twisting r reveale to have more bends and twist Aches to hurt with a dull pain to shade a continuous dull pain Belch to burp noisily to let air come up noisily from your stomach and out through your nose Strummed to sweep fingers over a stringed instrument to simulated military operation a guitar or similar instrument by moving your fingers up and down across the strings Brow is a persons forehead the part of the face above the eyes and below the hair Drenched to be soaked through to pee-pee something or soulfulness completely wet Hornby, A.S. ed 2010. Oxford Advanced leaners dictionary of Current English. 8th Edition Oxford University Press My Notes The verse form is a relinquish verse there is no punctuation mark it describes the anxious thoughts of a juvenile boy who does not know what tomorrow willing hold. The title of the verse form includes the lyric poem June sixteenth. This date is a very significant date in the write up of Sou th Africa, as Youth day is commemorated and celebrated on this day. It goes back to the time in South African during the Apartheid regime.On June 16th 1976 thousands of students paradeed in the streets of Soweto to protest against Bantu education, which limited the level of education to roughly South Africans. There was an choleric youthfulness crowd fighting against and angry government and this resulted in the police killing two hundred spring chicken people and injuring hundreds more. This poem is thusly a good poem as it supposes how the people felt during this time in history and it to a fault reflect where we come from as a nation and how the youth can institute such an important role in changing an entire history of a country.Critical analysis on the poem A modern whiles thoughts before June the 16th, by Fhazel Johennese. To me A materialisation mans thoughts before June the 16th, write by Fhazel Johennese is instead a good poem. I must admit I had to enounce it quite a few times before I started to represent it. Although it is a short poem, the style is simple and the writer gets straight to the point. I understand that the poem is about a young man who is about to go and fight for his rights in South Africa, but I feel that he would instead be somewhere else.I wish the poem, it is not ch completelyenging to read and you can feel the emotions of the young boy through the words written in the poem. He is anxious about what tomorrow will bring and just wants to be a normal young person. He longs for his mother and wants to spend time with his friends and he knows that he will probably die. In this poem, Fhazel Johennesse is placing himself in somebody elses shoes (this person well-read that he was going to die as a result of the contact of June the 16th). Therefore he is not the narrator of the poem but rather a character which will result in his death.The poet uses words like I, me and my which make the poem very personal and you can imagine the young man going through all the emotions that he is going through. The poem can be seen both as literally and figuratively thusly making the reader or narrator enjoy how the poem has been described. In the literal sense, the person in the poem is going to march, travel on a road (line 1) on June the 16th. There is a use of beginning rhyme which occurs by the use of the phrase broad belch of beer (line 7). However figuratively, the march is the journey, the struggle, against apartheid for a better tomorrow.The speaker slows the poem down when reading it because of the repeated alliterations, this make the poem full of sadness. In the last line the poet writes that his sundown is drenched with red. This symbolises that there is going to be a masses of lives at sea and their blood will be spilled all over the place. The poet uses a lot of literary devices in the poem Firstly the whole poem is written in small letters. This shows that the person in the poem feels inferi or and does not cipher highly of himself. Also there are no punctuation marks used in the poem, the lines just go on and on.This emphasises the occurrence the he is in an on-going struggle that just goes on and on. His thoughts, his sweet memories of (his) youth are unstoppable. He thinks about the important things like his family and friends, despite his trials and tribulations. The Friday nightswith a broad belch of beer (alliteration in line 6 and 7) for example, were important to him. His thoughts croak onto the next line and maybe death will ultimately make his thoughts break. The lines of the poem are long and because there are no punctuation marks in this poem, one does not know when to pause because of this.This therefore makes the poem to be slow paced and makes you think of a sad song, birdcall at funeral. This emphasises that the poem could be some kind of a recommendation to one of the young men who died on June 16th. In the poem we also read about the my heart ache s for my mother (line 5) and sweet memories of my youth (line 4). This makes me think that he must be very young and if he had the cream he would rather be somewhere else instead of facing death. When we read a poem such as this it makes us realise that many another(prenominal) people old and young alike have died to make a difference in South Africa.On June the 16th we should remember what so many young people stood for and even gave their lives for. In the poem all that the young man wants is for someone to remembers and to tell others the story of what happened on June the 16th, so that those of died did not die for nothing. BIBLIOGRAPHY * Hornby, A. S. ed 2010. Oxford Advanced leaners dictionary of Current English. 8th Edition Oxford University Press * Ways of knowing Fiction, numbers and Drams, Tutorial letter EED102G/101/3/2012.