INTC 2P53 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Jeremy Cronin
8 Apr 2016
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Three reasons for a mixed, umrabulo, round-the-corner poetry- What is the significance of the museum mentioned being colonial". Why might it be problematic that contemporaries are writing from within and for a culture that assumes homer, spenser, yeats. ". Why is it that here it is safe to assume nothing at all". Do the numbers 80 dead, 2000 shacks destroyed, and 20,000 homeless help paint a clearer picture of the state of this area or do they contribute to more of an abstract idea of the place. The speaker in this poem speaks inexplicitly of the effects of hurt caused by seeing and knowing. This is one of the shorter poems in the collection, yet it is densely packed with rich imagery. What does the speaker mean by the struggle calls for more than laughter. B five thoughts concerning the question: what happens after mandela goes?".
