Poetry Table:
Title Funeral Blues: Walking Away: Taken for a Vultures:
ride:
Literal: colour Literal: walking Literal: bird of
blue Literal: being prey and a
Figurative: taken away by a scavenger
Figurative: letting go vehicle
sadness
Cathartic: Figurative: being
Cathartic: present taken advantage
sad/soulful and participles of
song lyrics currently and
(blues) continuously 3rd layer of
happening meaning:
Arrested in
apartheid in SA
Opening line ‘Stop all the ‘It is 18 years ‘I get my cue’ ‘In the
clocks, cut off ago, almost to greyness’
the telephone’ the day-’ Personal
experience Morally grey
Imperative Reflecting on
verbs- past event Cues tell you Sad times-
commanding how to behave, melencholy
world to mourn Dash is an what to say and
with the speaker elaboration on how to feel
what happened
Clocks-time on the day
Telephone-
communication
Diction ‘Moaning’ ‘Wrenched’ ‘Crazed’ ‘Nestled’
Pain and crying Pain of parent Panic, Affectionate and
desperation kind
‘Pianos’ ‘Drifting’
‘Nurse’ ‘Daddy’s’
Music and Slow and no
happiness direction Takes care of it Affectionate and
love
‘Stars’ ‘Behind’ ‘Everything’
‘Ogre’
Romance and Parents can’t Needs it for
hope see survival Monster
‘Sky’ ‘Wilderness’ ‘Twitches’ ‘Tidy’
Wants the whole Danger/fear Nerves Homey
world to know
Title Funeral Blues: Walking Away: Taken for a Vultures:
ride:
Literal: colour Literal: walking Literal: bird of
blue Literal: being prey and a
Figurative: taken away by a scavenger
Figurative: letting go vehicle
sadness
Cathartic: Figurative: being
Cathartic: present taken advantage
sad/soulful and participles of
song lyrics currently and
(blues) continuously 3rd layer of
happening meaning:
Arrested in
apartheid in SA
Opening line ‘Stop all the ‘It is 18 years ‘I get my cue’ ‘In the
clocks, cut off ago, almost to greyness’
the telephone’ the day-’ Personal
experience Morally grey
Imperative Reflecting on
verbs- past event Cues tell you Sad times-
commanding how to behave, melencholy
world to mourn Dash is an what to say and
with the speaker elaboration on how to feel
what happened
Clocks-time on the day
Telephone-
communication
Diction ‘Moaning’ ‘Wrenched’ ‘Crazed’ ‘Nestled’
Pain and crying Pain of parent Panic, Affectionate and
desperation kind
‘Pianos’ ‘Drifting’
‘Nurse’ ‘Daddy’s’
Music and Slow and no
happiness direction Takes care of it Affectionate and
love
‘Stars’ ‘Behind’ ‘Everything’
‘Ogre’
Romance and Parents can’t Needs it for
hope see survival Monster
‘Sky’ ‘Wilderness’ ‘Twitches’ ‘Tidy’
Wants the whole Danger/fear Nerves Homey
world to know
