The cry of South Africa
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Olive Schreiner.
1900
War, especially the Anglo-Boer War.
The Anglo-Boer War of 1899–1902.
The Boers and the Africans.
Missionary parents.
The Eastern Cape.
Afrikaans.
She worked as a governess (nanny and teacher).
The Story of an African Farm.
Her poor health and asthma forced her to return to the Karoo, where the dry climate suited her condition.
Asthma.
Samuel Conwright, a farmer from Cradock.
Which British politician did Schreiner openly criticise?
Cecil John Rhodes.
Because she publicly supported the Afrikaner cause during the Anglo-Boer War.
The process of spreading a country's rule and power beyond its borders.
The 16th century.
What is an empire?
A group of territories ruled by one ruler or state.
The process in which a country controls another land and uses its resources for its own gain, often at the expense of the indigenous people.
To gain land, obtain valuable materials, create money-making opportunities and provide new places to live and work.
Gold, silver, diamonds, precious and semiprecious stones, sugar and tobacco.
The competition between Britain and other European countries to gain control of African territories.
From 1881 to 1902.
Around one quarter.
Approximately 458 million people.
They wanted its abundant mineral wealth.
The scorched-earth policy.
Farmhouses and crops were burnt, and livestock were killed.
Boer women, children and farm workers.
St. Helena and Ceylon (present-day Sri Lanka).
12 lines.
Free verse.
The Anglo-Boer War of 1899–1902.
At Wagenaar’s Kraal, Three Sisters, Northern Cape, on 9 May 1900.
Who is the speaker in the poem?
South Africa, the country.
South Africa is portrayed as a mother who has lost her children.
Personification
To express opposition to the cruelty and senselessness of war.
Anger, anguish and disgust.
War is cruel and senseless and causes heartache and the loss of lives.
“Give back my dead!”
Four times
An exclamation mark.
The urgency and indignation of the speaker.
People who were born in South Africa and died during the war or in concentration camps.
A small hill or koppie.
The South African landscape and the image of South Africa as a mother.
An image of South Africa as a mother whose rocky landscape is described as her breast.
The sons of South Africa who died in the war.
They were still young when they died, and their futures were stolen from them.
Violently torn or cut off.
South Africa’s children, who were torn away from their motherland.
Men who used propaganda to entice the sons of Africa to fight.
Weapons.
A far-off land, far away from South Africa.
South African soldiers who fought for the British Empire.
South Africa, portrayed as a mother, is covered in the blood of her children who died in war.
A mother’s chest and her love and care for her children.
The horror of war and the suffering it causes, even to innocent people.
South Africa and its people, especially families who lose their loved ones.
“Give back my dead!”
The people who grew up in South Africa and died in the war.
Despair and sadness.
An exclamation mark.
What is the overall message of the final two lines?
South Africa mourns the senseless deaths of her children and desperately demands their return.
A command, or imperative.
To emphasise South Africa’s desperation, anger and grief.
An extended metaphor.
A metaphor that is developed throughout a poem or text.
South Africa is portrayed as a mother mourning her dead children.
Personification.
It helps readers understand South Africa’s grief and suffering as if the country were a grieving mother.
They emphasise urgency, anger, anguish and indignation.
Which type of imagery is created by "my children's blood"?
Visual imagery.
To emphasise the cruelty and horror of war and the suffering it causes.
Metaphor.
South Africa as a mother who loves and mourns her children.
It emphasises natural speech rhythms and expresses the speaker’s strong emotions.
It emphasises the speaker’s desperate demand for the return of her children and reinforces her grief.
They intensify the emotional impact and highlight the cruelty and senselessness of war.
The suffering and loss caused by war.
A mother’s grief over the loss of her children.
Angry, anguished and disgusted.
The speaker strongly opposes war because of its cruelty and senselessness.
They experience deep grief and anguish when their children are killed.
Innocent people also suffer and lose their lives because of war.
Violence causes suffering, destruction and the senseless loss of life.
It condemns the cruelty of war and opposes the senseless killing of people.
As a grieving mother mourning the loss of her children.
It represents South Africa’s desperate cry of grief and anguish over the deaths of her people.
To portray the country as a grieving mother and make the suffering caused by war more personal and emotional.
It helps readers understand the deep pain of losing children and creates sympathy for South Africa and its people.
Repeating “Give back my dead!” emphasises the speaker’s desperation, anger and grief.
War causes terrible suffering and the loss of innocent lives, so its cruelty and senselessness should be opposed.
People continue to suffer and lose loved ones in wars, making its anti-war message relevant.
Knowing that the poem refers to the Anglo-Boer War helps readers understand the deaths, suffering and grief that inspired it.
Emotion communicates the speaker’s anger, anguish and despair, helping readers feel the pain caused by war.
She portrays South Africa as a mother whose children have been violently taken from her, highlighting the personal suffering caused by war.
War is cruel and senseless because it destroys lives, separates families and leaves a country mourning its dead.
It uses repetition, personification, an extended metaphor and violent imagery to express the anguish of a grieving country and condemn the cruelty and senselessness of war.