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    English Speech Poetry

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    The document discusses two poems, "Refugee Blues" by W. H. Auden and "A Cry for Africa" by Olive Schreiner. It analyzes how both poems address significant historical events through their use of tone, repetition, and personification to create impact and bring awareness. "Refugee Blues" reflects on the suffering of Jewish refugees in World War 2, using a sad, melancholic tone and repetition to emphasize desperation and isolation. "A Cry for Africa" personifies South Africa as a grieving mother who lost her children in the South African war, pleading for their return with emphatic repetition and intimate language. Both poems effectively communicate the human impact of their respective historical events through powerful and emotional

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    The document discusses two poems, "Refugee Blues" by W. H. Auden and "A Cry for Africa" by Olive Schreiner. It analyzes how both poems address significant historical events through their use of tone, repetition, and personification to create impact and bring awareness. "Refugee Blues" reflects on the suffering of Jewish refugees in World War 2, using a sad, melancholic tone and repetition to emphasize desperation and isolation. "A Cry for Africa" personifies South Africa as a grieving mother who lost her children in the South African war, pleading for their return with emphatic repetition and intimate language. Both poems effectively communicate the human impact of their respective historical events through powerful and emotional

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    The document discusses two poems, "Refugee Blues" by W. H. Auden and "A Cry for Africa" by Olive Schreiner. It analyzes how both poems address significant historical events through their use of tone, repetition, and personification to create impact and bring awareness. "Refugee Blues" reflects on the suffering of Jewish refugees in World War 2, using a sad, melancholic tone and repetition to emphasize desperation and isolation. "A Cry for Africa" personifies South Africa as a grieving mother who lost her children in the South African war, pleading for their return with emphatic repetition and intimate language. Both poems effectively communicate the human impact of their respective historical events through powerful and emotional

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    English speech Poetry:

    The power of poetry… As I read the quote by Carl Sandburg I


    immediately in my own head started realising the actual
    power of poetry. The power of poetry consists of three vital
    points: content, impact, and relevance. Poetry is powerful! It
    starts with a small thought, then snowballs into a whole new
    perspective and conveys powerful messages destined for
    greatness.

    Refuge blues by W H Auden, the cry of SA by Oliver


    Schreiner. Each of these poets were acutely conscious of the
    social issues that affected those around them and unpacks
    these themes that we as readers should hear and be made
    aware of. See, poetry is not only substantial, but also
    portrayed as art which paints mental images which ideally
    strengthens the readers perspective even more so.

    Refugee blues is a ballad poem that goes back to World War 2


    in 1939. This poem is a reference to the abuse of human rights
    and suffering, despair, and isolation that all refugees
    experience during their journey of survival. The speaker in
    this poem is one of the Jews, she is a refugee who addresses
    her partner as “my dear” and implies that they are awfully
    close.

    The poem title suggests a subject matter of exile and forced


    migration to a foreign country, which is a clear reflection of
    the theme of this poem. And therefore, the tone is sad and
    melancholic, as it should be. Some people form our society
    are not even familiar with this and therefore this poem is a
    way of reintroducing the tragedy of this time. This poetry
    shoots at the unknown and unknowable barriers, Said by
    Sandburg.

    In the title “Refugee Blues”, “blues” is mentioned. Blues was a


    sad slow music which consisted of three-line stanza and a lot
    of repetition for example “old passports can 't do that my dear
    old passports can 't do that.” The effect and purpose of these
    repetitions is for the poet to force the reader to linger on any
    points he feels are important, hence making a longer lasting
    impact on the reader. In this case repetition is used to regularly
    insinuate a sense of desperation and isolation.

    Another poem also reaching back to the south African war in


    1899 to 1902, A cry for Africa by Olive Schneider, she is a
    South African herself, she was an outspoken opponent of
    British Imperialism in SA and of racism in any form. In the
    poem, Africa is personified as the “mother,” a mother who
    has lost her children (people who were born in SA) because of
    war and demanding that they come back to her. She uses a
    desperate and intimate tone and that is why they call it the cry
    of SA, it’s like a plea form a mother who have just lost her
    children. The lines “give me back my dead” is repeated
    throughout the poem and makes it even more emphatic, she
    makes use of impeccable language and diction linking some
    of the lines to the “motherland.” She left us with a sad and
    depressing feeling, pulling on our heart strings, emphasizing
    the great tragedy of this event.

    Both these poems clearly corollate with one another as they


    bring back issues which have happened in the past
    significantly and effectively; “a phantom script telling how
    rainbows are made and why they go away”. These poems will
    surely sit with me personally as they have made a profound on
    society as well. Not only are these cases so interesting to read
    about they educated us also on the more emotional side of the
    situations. These poets knew what they where writing about
    and they brought their knowledge to our attention in the most
    powerful and unique way and so we can admire them for their
    work till this day.

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