Booklet of poems from the Clusters anthology for Form V 2021
Contents
No longer mourn for me – William Shakespeare ............................................................... 2
Love’s Farewell – Michael Drayton......................................................................... 3
To Althea, from Prison – Richard Lovelace .................................................................. 4
To Night -Percy Bysshe Shelley............................................................................ 6
Ulysses – Alfred, Lord Tennyson .............................................................................. 8
My Last Duchess – Robert Browning ........................................................................11
The wind begun to rock the grass – Emily Dickinson ..............................................13
Dulce et Decorum Est – Wilfred Owen ..............................................................14
nobody loses all the time – ee cummings ...............................................................15
Refugee Blues – WH Auden .......................................................................17
Assassination – Don L Lee (Haki R Madhubuti) ...................................................19
The Cry of South Africa – Olive Schreiner .......................................................................20
Penguin on the Beach – Ruth Miller ..................................................21
Nightsong City – Dennis Brutus ............................................................................23
Touch – Hugh Lewin ..............................................................................24
Portrait of a Loaf of Bread – Mbuyiseni Oswald Mtshali .................................................26
Lost or Found World – Mongane Wally Serote......................................................27
I have my father’s voice – Chris van Wyk ................................................28
The Tenant – Na Ngulube ..................................................................30
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, Booklet of poems from the Clusters anthology for Form V 2021
Shakespearean sonnet - iambic pentameter (5 pairs of stressed, unstressed)
ABAB Rhyme scheme
Main idea : forget me when I'm gone Paradox : asking to be forgotten
No longer mourn for me – William Shakespeare but written a poem that will be
her forever, exists forever
Sonnet 71 William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)
A No longer mourn for me when I am dead
Death bell
B Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Assonance/ alliteration heavy sound,
reinforce somber mood of dying lover
A Give warning to the world that I am fled Died
live
B From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell;
C Nay, if you read this line, remember not---Synecdoche 5
D The hand that writ it; for I love you so,
Selfless love (spared the grief)
C That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot
Grieve / cause sorrow
D If thinking on me then should make you woe.
Interjecti Tone : pathos/ sorrow
on (one/E A O! if, I say, you look upon this verse
two
words) F When I perhaps compounded am (Of the earth)
with clay, 10
exclaim Worthless Don't repeat my worthless name
E Do not so much as my poor name rehearse,
Earth's corruptionLove die with my physical
F But let your love even with my life decay; death
For fear that Sarcastic
G Rhyming Lest the wise world should look into your moan,
Observe your sorrow
couplet Central message : critical for judgemental
G And mock you with me after I am gone. society : protect the lover from feeling pain
Don't mourn so that society doesn't
mock you for his love
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, Love’s Farewell
Idea 61 Michael Drayton (1563 – 1631)
Since there’s no help, come let us kiss and part, -
Nay I have done, you get no more of me;
Anaphora (repetition of words at the
beginning of successive clauses) -
And I am glad, yea, glad with all my heart, reminds audience that he is
heartbroken
That thus so cleanly I myself can free;
Like a religious promise
Lack of intimacy. Absolute (very important/ weighty)
Shake hands for ever, cancel all our vows, 5
And when we meet at any time again, Absolute. Final
Be it not seen in either of our brows
Poet is trying to convince himself
That we one jot of former love retain. that she once loved him
Volta - significant change of idea
long vowel sounds = Slow down pace Love = male (eg : his) relates himself to love
Now at the last gasp of love’s latest breath,
Elements of love
When, his pulse failing, passion speechless lies, 10
When faith is kneeling by his bed of death,
And innocence is closing up his eyes, Love is dying (on its death bed)
With his love dying (given all his passion in hope Tone : Complex and uncertain
for it to be countered - rejected) = lost innocence
(something that he hoped for is gone -- naivety)
-- Rhyming couplet =
- Now if thou would’st, when all have given him over,
Level of urgency Iambic pentameter (purpose: for rhythm of line) Shakespearean sonnet
From death to life thou might’st him yet recover!
Desperate/ passion
Intimacy of Tone (eg: 'thou' )
Clear indication that the poet hopes that their relationship could be (contrast to first stanza - use of
saved. The poet wants to continue the relationship but his love interest 'you')
seems to have a different idea
Contents
No longer mourn for me – William Shakespeare ............................................................... 2
Love’s Farewell – Michael Drayton......................................................................... 3
To Althea, from Prison – Richard Lovelace .................................................................. 4
To Night -Percy Bysshe Shelley............................................................................ 6
Ulysses – Alfred, Lord Tennyson .............................................................................. 8
My Last Duchess – Robert Browning ........................................................................11
The wind begun to rock the grass – Emily Dickinson ..............................................13
Dulce et Decorum Est – Wilfred Owen ..............................................................14
nobody loses all the time – ee cummings ...............................................................15
Refugee Blues – WH Auden .......................................................................17
Assassination – Don L Lee (Haki R Madhubuti) ...................................................19
The Cry of South Africa – Olive Schreiner .......................................................................20
Penguin on the Beach – Ruth Miller ..................................................21
Nightsong City – Dennis Brutus ............................................................................23
Touch – Hugh Lewin ..............................................................................24
Portrait of a Loaf of Bread – Mbuyiseni Oswald Mtshali .................................................26
Lost or Found World – Mongane Wally Serote......................................................27
I have my father’s voice – Chris van Wyk ................................................28
The Tenant – Na Ngulube ..................................................................30
1|P ag e
, Booklet of poems from the Clusters anthology for Form V 2021
Shakespearean sonnet - iambic pentameter (5 pairs of stressed, unstressed)
ABAB Rhyme scheme
Main idea : forget me when I'm gone Paradox : asking to be forgotten
No longer mourn for me – William Shakespeare but written a poem that will be
her forever, exists forever
Sonnet 71 William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)
A No longer mourn for me when I am dead
Death bell
B Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Assonance/ alliteration heavy sound,
reinforce somber mood of dying lover
A Give warning to the world that I am fled Died
live
B From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell;
C Nay, if you read this line, remember not---Synecdoche 5
D The hand that writ it; for I love you so,
Selfless love (spared the grief)
C That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot
Grieve / cause sorrow
D If thinking on me then should make you woe.
Interjecti Tone : pathos/ sorrow
on (one/E A O! if, I say, you look upon this verse
two
words) F When I perhaps compounded am (Of the earth)
with clay, 10
exclaim Worthless Don't repeat my worthless name
E Do not so much as my poor name rehearse,
Earth's corruptionLove die with my physical
F But let your love even with my life decay; death
For fear that Sarcastic
G Rhyming Lest the wise world should look into your moan,
Observe your sorrow
couplet Central message : critical for judgemental
G And mock you with me after I am gone. society : protect the lover from feeling pain
Don't mourn so that society doesn't
mock you for his love
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, Love’s Farewell
Idea 61 Michael Drayton (1563 – 1631)
Since there’s no help, come let us kiss and part, -
Nay I have done, you get no more of me;
Anaphora (repetition of words at the
beginning of successive clauses) -
And I am glad, yea, glad with all my heart, reminds audience that he is
heartbroken
That thus so cleanly I myself can free;
Like a religious promise
Lack of intimacy. Absolute (very important/ weighty)
Shake hands for ever, cancel all our vows, 5
And when we meet at any time again, Absolute. Final
Be it not seen in either of our brows
Poet is trying to convince himself
That we one jot of former love retain. that she once loved him
Volta - significant change of idea
long vowel sounds = Slow down pace Love = male (eg : his) relates himself to love
Now at the last gasp of love’s latest breath,
Elements of love
When, his pulse failing, passion speechless lies, 10
When faith is kneeling by his bed of death,
And innocence is closing up his eyes, Love is dying (on its death bed)
With his love dying (given all his passion in hope Tone : Complex and uncertain
for it to be countered - rejected) = lost innocence
(something that he hoped for is gone -- naivety)
-- Rhyming couplet =
- Now if thou would’st, when all have given him over,
Level of urgency Iambic pentameter (purpose: for rhythm of line) Shakespearean sonnet
From death to life thou might’st him yet recover!
Desperate/ passion
Intimacy of Tone (eg: 'thou' )
Clear indication that the poet hopes that their relationship could be (contrast to first stanza - use of
saved. The poet wants to continue the relationship but his love interest 'you')
seems to have a different idea
