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,ENG2603 Mock Exam 1
B.V. SIBIYA
Answer ONE queson from Secon A, and ONE queson from Secon B.
Your answers should be two to four pages in length, and wri en in the form of
carefully constructed essays.
Secon A
Answer ONE queson in this secon for 50 marks.
Queson 1: Poetry
By making close reference to content and poec devices, discuss how this poem uses sare to portray
the coloniser (“The Brish Se ler”). Remember to quote from the poem to support your argument.
The British Settler
Tune – ‘Oh what a row’; or, ‘The humours of a Steam-boat’
Oh! what a gay, what a rambling life a Se ler’s leading!
Spooring ca le, doing ba le, quite jocose;
Winning, losing; Whigs abusing; shopping now, then mu on breeding;
Never fearing, persevering, on he goes!
When to the Cape I first came out, in days of Charlie Somerset,
My lands were neatly measured o , ff
and reg’larly my number set;
I stru ed round on my own ground, lord of a hundred acres, sir,
, I made a trip to Kafirland, in hopes to find my cow again,
And tried to act the denst then, which no one can do now again; I
drew the Kafir’s ivory teeth, at risk of hempen collar, sir.
Which at Graham’s Town on the market brought me full 300 dollars, sir!
Oh! what a gay, &c.
My second go was but so so, although the trade was brisk
enough; The patrols nearly boned me in a secret maze;
I hid my load out of the road, and, faith, I just had risk enough,
For this trade was hanging ma er in those good old days!
My stock-in-trade on pack-ox laid, I tried my luck at smouching then,
But found the Boers were wide awake as Yorkshiremen at chousing them;
They swept me some rock chrystals – gems, they swore, of purest water, sir;
And for breeding stock, a scurvy lot of hamels and kapaters, sir!
Oh! what a gay, &c.
Of fortune’s frowns, smiles, ups, and downs, I had a great
variety; I smouching drop. I open shop, the buy a farm;
Doing charming with my farming, best with friends’ society,
When all at once the Amakose break the charm!
Assegaing, yelling, crying – murder! fire! and revelry!
Stealing ca le, bloody ba le, every kind of devilry –
EXAM PACK
2023
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS
EMAIL:
,ENG2603
EXAM PACK
2023
QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
,ENG2603 Mock Exam 1
B.V. SIBIYA
Answer ONE queson from Secon A, and ONE queson from Secon B.
Your answers should be two to four pages in length, and wri en in the form of
carefully constructed essays.
Secon A
Answer ONE queson in this secon for 50 marks.
Queson 1: Poetry
By making close reference to content and poec devices, discuss how this poem uses sare to portray
the coloniser (“The Brish Se ler”). Remember to quote from the poem to support your argument.
The British Settler
Tune – ‘Oh what a row’; or, ‘The humours of a Steam-boat’
Oh! what a gay, what a rambling life a Se ler’s leading!
Spooring ca le, doing ba le, quite jocose;
Winning, losing; Whigs abusing; shopping now, then mu on breeding;
Never fearing, persevering, on he goes!
When to the Cape I first came out, in days of Charlie Somerset,
My lands were neatly measured o , ff
and reg’larly my number set;
I stru ed round on my own ground, lord of a hundred acres, sir,
, I made a trip to Kafirland, in hopes to find my cow again,
And tried to act the denst then, which no one can do now again; I
drew the Kafir’s ivory teeth, at risk of hempen collar, sir.
Which at Graham’s Town on the market brought me full 300 dollars, sir!
Oh! what a gay, &c.
My second go was but so so, although the trade was brisk
enough; The patrols nearly boned me in a secret maze;
I hid my load out of the road, and, faith, I just had risk enough,
For this trade was hanging ma er in those good old days!
My stock-in-trade on pack-ox laid, I tried my luck at smouching then,
But found the Boers were wide awake as Yorkshiremen at chousing them;
They swept me some rock chrystals – gems, they swore, of purest water, sir;
And for breeding stock, a scurvy lot of hamels and kapaters, sir!
Oh! what a gay, &c.
Of fortune’s frowns, smiles, ups, and downs, I had a great
variety; I smouching drop. I open shop, the buy a farm;
Doing charming with my farming, best with friends’ society,
When all at once the Amakose break the charm!
Assegaing, yelling, crying – murder! fire! and revelry!
Stealing ca le, bloody ba le, every kind of devilry –
