- Title
- Grieving forests
- Creator
- Bila, Freddy Vonani
- Subject
- Creative writing (Higher education) -- Research -- South Africa
- Subject
- Creative writing -- Poetry
- Subject
- South African poetry (English) -- Study and teaching (Higher)
- Subject
- South African poetry (English) -- 21st century
- Subject
- English language -- Writing
- Date Issued
- 2014
- Date
- 2014
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MA
- Identifier
- vital:5997
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1020880
- Description
- This is a collection of village narrative poems mainly set in rural Limpopo that searches into the complexity of the past and how historical events impact on the present. Although the poems are imagined along the Marxist dialectic, they’re fresh imaginative creations featuring a strong element of surprise, spiritual mysticism, experimenting with form, delving into unknown poetic avenues, creating new music, exploring new sounds and taking risks. The long and intense poem, Ancestral wealth, which is a tribute to the poet’s father, reflects on death and its impact through the effective application of various stylistic elements and poetic devices, thus immortalising the life of a rural South African. Overall the poems, including retrospective and experimental ones, condemn the free market economic system and all that it seems to necessitate: the degradation of ecology, indifference to human suffering and the alienation of vulnerable social groups.
- Format
- 100 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- Rhodes University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Humanities, Institute for the Study of English in Africa
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Bila, Freddy Vonani
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