NSC English FAL Poetry: Read the poem carefully and then

Question

Read the poem carefully and then answer the questions which follow.
The number of marks allocated to each question serves as a guide to the expected length of your answer.

Captive – Francis Carey Slater

Lament of a sick Xhosa mine-labourer in a compound hospital

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As a wild bird caught in a slip-knot snare –
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The plaited tail-hairs of a dun-coloured cow,
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Almost invisible –
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So, tethered in the toils of fever, do I lie
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And burn and shiver while I listen to the buzzing
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Of flies that flutter vainly
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Against cold, hard, deceiving window-panes:
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Like them would I escape, and escaping hasten
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To my home that shines in a valley afar,
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My home – brightest tooth in the jaws of distance.
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There, now, the cows I love are feeding
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In some quiet sun-washed vale;
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Their lazy shadows drink the sunlight
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Rippling on the grasses;
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There, through the long day, girls and women
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Among the mealiest chant and bake.
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Their swinging hooves are like the glitter
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Of sunshine on water;
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There, now, shouting, happy herdboys,
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While they watch the cattle browse,
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Are busily molding mimic cattle
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From clay moist and yellow.
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There, when the sun has folded his wings that dazzle,
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And has sunken to his hidden rest beyond the hills,
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All shall shout together gleefully around the crackling fires,
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And chew the juicy cut of garden battles,
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And cattle-robes and the days of old,
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But here I burn and shiver and listen to the buzzing
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Of flies against deceiving window-panes.

Read the poem carefully and then answer the questions which follow - NSC English FAL - Question 6 - 2021 - Paper 2

Worked Solution & Example Answer:Read the poem carefully and then answer the questions which follow - NSC English FAL - Question 6 - 2021 - Paper 2

6.1.1 (a) What is the speaker doing in the poem?

6.1.1 (b) Identify the setting of the poem.

6.1.2 Discuss the use of personification in the poem.

6.1.3 Explain the significance of the imagery in the poem.

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