A Protest from a Bushman

201005894 ENG 373 ASSIGNMENT BOIKANYO MAKAUSU 1. A PROTEST FROM A BUSHMAN POEM newspaper SADNESS The bailiwick of the poet A plain From a Bushman is SADNESS. The poet is expressing disapproval or remonstrance to something, thus how his fellowman treats them and undermine the tribe, culture & tradition. intent MORAL INDIGNATION The scent of the song is typically a reactive finger to anger over perceived mistreatment, tease or malice. It is somehow a sense of injustice. The bushman is more concerned with how his fellow ruralist treats their tribe.He promptly feels that his inwrought-born land non good/ non enjoyable to them as they are like a shot hard-boiled as slaves and are at once seen filthy. They are seen as a nobody thereof this is their native land rather they are non refugees. The t mavin is the same through and through the rime. complex body part The rime has 11 stanzas with 111 lines in total. The send-off stanza has 10 lines followed with the second stanza with 13 lines. The three stanza has 5 lines, seven on the quaternate stanza while 19 lines on the fifth. The wholeness-sixth stanza with also seven lines 15 lines with the 7th stanza and followed by3 lines on the eighth stanza.Then four lines on the ninety stanza. The second give out stanza has sixteen lines while the brave out single has 12 lines. poetical DEVICES REPITITION From stanza four the poet use repetition of the address, life is tremulous like a drop of water on a mophane leaf. to emphasize that life is shaking or geliditying with the bad negotiation just astir(predicate) the bushman by the fellow ruralist. The bushman uses repetition to sincerely yours face that these talks makes them nervous, that is they dont feel free in their native land. PERSONIFICATIONLife is psycheified to a person as it is ordinate to be shivering/shaking hence it is something thats non human like. It cannot shiver nor shake. He trys his anger by masking the unfair ness of life. 2. THE ORATION OF CHIEF can MADAWO NSWAZWI VII THEME SADNESS The guinea pig of the rime The oration of Chief potty Madawo Nswazwi is sadness. The poet is cosmos sad and not beaming approximately how muckle are creationness treated. He is using Chief magic trick Madawo Nswazwi giving out a quarrel to his tribe or nation addressing them about the excruciation they were treated with and promising them that it is now over.He shows his sadness by face, We have bugger off slaves Worse than dogs and pigs By this he beautiful how cruel they were being treated as animals. He also pardoned how heartless they were treated in front of Gods presence thus being weeped present the immoral signs they discovered. flavour PROTEST The tone of the rime is a formal and businesslike declaration of objection. Chief Nswazwi VIII is objecting or protesting once morest mistreatments of human rights to his fellow beloved countryman and women. The slave suffering of the coun tryman had come in anger on him they now do not enjoy fruits of the country.He uses the African slave trade where missionaries ill-treated the blacks as animals to explain their suffering which he feels is against the go out of the almighty. The psyche is angry to chief Tshekedis integrity where villages are being destroyed and cut to ashes by his tyrannical rule. By saying I shall come back fiercer than the glowing sun The chief promises the fellow countryman & women that if it happens he dies and the slave trade continues he would come back from the dead and queer an intensive aggression to help his tribe. complex body part The poem has 10 stanzas with 99 lines in total.In stanza I the poet expresses the feelings of anger that they have been mistreated only when that shall stop and that the war brought shall pull set ashore the enemies themselves by using the chief. He continues in stanza 2 & 3 that upon his rule suffering would be changed to freedom and stop war wit h all his strength. He continues from stanza stating the impropriety of otherwise chiefs, how they overexcite power up until stanza 7. In the last stanza the chief promises multitude that although they have lived through obstacles they would live a happy, freely and not disturbed life. 3. GABORONEThe aim of the poem is to before long guide how the urban center capital of Botswana appears to be. In other words what capital of Botswana is and what happens round the city. However he does this by in the main chargeing on the negative aspects in describing the city. It is a clear and short translation of the picture behind the city Gaborone. The theme is perfectly reviewed throughout the poem, and to begin with the poet describe the climatic conditions of Gaborone in the firstly two lines to honour that Gaborone characterizes of luxuriously temperature or sunny conditions (Irritating Heat) as swell as polluted air or not fresh air (Stale Air).He thence continues to describe what happens around Gaborone from the terzetto line to mention the fast base and growing cockroaches, then large build of poor people (Hungry Smiles). The Poet continues with his description by mentioning foreign investors without identity found in Gaborone and also misleaders who feel excessively self important (Pompous Misleaders). And halfway of the poem the poet says that Gaborone characterizes of misleading politicians (Visionless Politicians), violated house-wives in this case women abuse and also real poor artists.And towards the end he mentions that in Gaborone one may bugger off rude and strict landlords and relatively increase number of dealers. In concluding the poem he says Gaborone with its belly about to explode as to say that now population is increasing rapidly, the city is now expanding and hence growing into a broad city. STRUCTURE The poem comprises of only one stanza containing 20 lines, and distributively line starts by the word Gaborone. TONE The tone o f the poem is quite a a tone of lower or rather I will say the poet if fed up with what the city has turn into.So he writes this with a depressive mood. poetical DEVICDES However the poet utilise some poetic devices during his writing much(prenominal) as rhyme, repetition and Hyperbole. He uses rhyming schemes such as the double rhymes like Hawkers and Workers, Mongers and Lovers. And also the leash rhymes like Churchgoers, Investors and Misleaders. Throughout the poem, the poet use repetition device in which he begins each line by the word Gaborone and there is also a overstatement where by an outrageous exaggeration is used for effect, for example Turbo-Charged Cockroaches. 4.Outside A Hotel in Gaborone THEME The Poem put its focus on the intrust or cover for money that people have and on the other hand it shows the power, strength and enclose that money can posses. This theme is being illustrated throughout the poem, and to start with the poet is trying to show us the p icture behind a person who has money. He writes Splash of clamant Colours, Splash of Covetous Smiles as to show craving for possession or appetency for wealth. So this is how a rich person would appear. He then continues to the second stanza to mention eyes that lust money s to say Minds that have a desire for money. And then he continues to the third stanza until the last one to illustrate what money does or what one would achieve with his/her wealthy being. and by doing so he write purr of sleek cars as to say Slow, day-and-night murmuring sound produced by prepossessing shinny cars driven in a group or a chain reactor in chase for quick money. So this is basically what the poet is illustrating towards the end of the poem TONE So during the in analyzing the poem, it has appeared that the poet wrote this poem in a sad tone or mood as to show how cross he is.He is being let down by the impact that money has toward people around his city, Gaborone. STRUCTURE The Structure of poem comprises of 4 stanzas, the first stanza until the third one having a tercent each and the fourth stanza with quintet. POETIC DEVICES The Poem also comprises of some poetic devises such as rhyme, catchry, fiction, simileys and. Firstly the rhyme, the poet uses pot rhyme that is word that are quite similar in spelling but rather differ in pronunciations. For examples words like Cars and Curs, Flesh and Flash.He then applies Imagery, which is a sentence that uses the human senses to describe a vivid mental picture. For example he wrote eyes that lust money as to illustrate the picture of someone who has desire for money. He then applied the metaphor and simileys as to compare objects that are not alike, for example Purr of Sleek Cars and interchangeable Curs on Heat. Here he is comparing the sound made by cars to the sound made by cats and again he compares an Undesirable dog on heat to Cars, as they are being driven by their owners in calculate for money. 5. SEROWE REFLECT ONS STRUCTUREIt is made up of seven stanzas. The backup is relevant in the sense that Serowe that the Poet talks about is different from the one he knew, the one he grew up in therefore it creates or forms on image of the then Serowe. POETIC DEVICES Metaphor at that dress is a permanent roar of your heavy(p) warriors. TONE The tone is sad because the Poet seems not to appreciate the changes in Serowe. There is so much change that he cannot accommodate. Serowe has father some that he is not soaring of. SUMMARY From the poem we can tell that at first Serowe was a place that the Poet liked and enjoyed as his village.It was rich in culture but now Serowe has turned into something else, people use dongas to relief themselves it is no longer safe for people to walking as night as people are being killed for sacrifices which is believed to bring wealth. plane the Kgotla main of Serowe makes people to think deeply about it whether it still potray the meaning of the Kgotla. Serowe ha s heavily fallen, one may say on the bewildered back just like the Poet and he continues by asking what could have went hurt with Serowe, the question is posed in such a way that the Poet want to materialise a solution in restoring the onetime(a) Serowe.