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    Lament For A Dead Cow

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    This 3 sentence summary provides the key details about the document: The document is a poem expressing grief over the death of a cow named Wetu. The poem describes Wetu as a beautiful black cow with shiny coat and sharp horns. It laments that Wetu will no longer provide comfort to the hills with her shadow and lowing, as the fountain that filled their calabashes has now been drained, leaving their kraal desolate and dry as they weep for their lost cow.

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    Lament For A Dead Cow

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    This 3 sentence summary provides the key details about the document: The document is a poem expressing grief over the death of a cow named Wetu. The poem describes Wetu as a beautiful black cow with shiny coat and sharp horns. It laments that Wetu will no longer provide comfort to the hills with her shadow and lowing, as the fountain that filled their calabashes has now been drained, leaving their kraal desolate and dry as they weep for their lost cow.

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    This 3 sentence summary provides the key details about the document: The document is a poem expressing grief over the death of a cow named Wetu. The poem describes Wetu as a beautiful black cow with shiny coat and sharp horns. It laments that Wetu will no longer provide comfort to the hills with her shadow and lowing, as the fountain that filled their calabashes has now been drained, leaving their kraal desolate and dry as they weep for their lost cow.

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    369 views9 pages

    Lament For A Dead Cow

    Uploaded by

    Maryke Oberholzer
    This 3 sentence summary provides the key details about the document: The document is a poem expressing grief over the death of a cow named Wetu. The poem describes Wetu as a beautiful black cow with shiny coat and sharp horns. It laments that Wetu will no longer provide comfort to the hills with her shadow and lowing, as the fountain that filled their calabashes has now been drained, leaving their kraal desolate and dry as they weep for their lost cow.

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    Lament for a dead cow.

    By
    Francis Carey Slater
    poem expressing grief

    CKS
    Siyalila, siyalila, inkomo yetu ifile!
    Beautiful was Wetu as a blue shadow
    That nests on the grey rocks
    About a sunbaked hilltop:
    Her coat was black and shiny 5
    Where shadows dive from the high rocks.
    No more will Wetu banish teasing flies
    With her whistling tail;
    No more will she face yapping curs
    With lowered horns and bewildered eyes; 15
    No more will her slow shadow
    Comfort the sunburnt veld, and her sweet lowing
    Delight the hills in the evening.
    The fountain that filled our calabashes
    Has been drained by the thirsty sun; 20

    The black cloud that brought us white rain


    Has vanished – the sky is empty
    Our kraal is desolate;
    Our calabashes are dry:
    And we weep 25
    Analysis of the
    poem
    We weep, we weep, our cow is dead!
    Siyalila, siyalila, inkomo yetu ifile!

    Beautiful was Wetu as a blue shadow


    simile
    That nests on the grey rocks Enjambment

    About a sunbaked hilltop:

    Her coat was black and shiny Description 5


    Of the cow

    CKS
    This refers to
    the coat of
    the cow

    Simile
    Like an isipingo-berry;

    Her horns were as sharp as the horns of the new moon


    horns up in the air Simile
    That tosses aloft the evening star;

    Her round eyes were as clear and soft


    throw eyes
    As a mountain-pool, 10

    CKS
    Personification

    Where shadows dive from the high rocks.

    No more will Wetu banish teasing flies Assonance

    With her whistling tail; sharp high pitched barking


    aggressive mongrel
    No more will she face yapping curs dogs

    With lowered horns and bewildered eyes; 15

    confused

    CKS
    No more will her slow shadow Alliteration

    Comfort the sunburnt veld, and her sweet lowing

    Delight the hills in the evening. personification

    The fountain that filled our calabashes

    Has been drained by the thirsty sun; 20


    The black cloud that brought us white rain

    Has vanished – the sky is empty

    Our kraal is desolate; Completely barren

    Our calabashes are dry:


    dry gourd used for carrying water
    And we weep alliteration
    25
    Power point by C. Klein Snakenborg

    CKS

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