ENG1501/103/3/2017
Tutorial Letter 103/3/2017
Foundations in English Literary Studies
ENG1501
Semesters 1 and 2
Department of English Studies
This tutorial letter contains important information
about your module.
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CONTENTS
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1 LIST OF PRESCRIBED POEMS 2017 …………………………………………………………………………….. 3
2 ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES …………………………………………………………………………………………….. 4
2.1 ‘Stop All the Clocks’ by W.H. Auden ………………………………………………………………………………… 4
2.2 ‘Talking in Bed’ by Philip Larkin……………………………………………………………………………………….. 5
2.3 ‘In the shadow of Signal Hill’ by Essop Patel ……………………………………………………………………… 5
2.4 ‘The Loneliness Beyond’ by Sipho Sepamla ……………………………………………………………………… 6
2.5 ‘From Not Him’ by Wopko Jensma …………………………………………………………………………………… 6
2.6 ‘Men in Chains’ by Mbyiseni Oswald Mtshali ……………………………………………………………………… 7
2.7 ‘A Woman’s Hands’ by Eva Bezwoda ………………………………………………………………………………. 7
2.8 ‘For Don M. – Banned’ by Wally Mongane Serote ………………………………………………………………. 8
2.9 ‘Ingrid Jonker’ by Sally Bryer …………………………………………………………………………………………… 9
2.10 ‘Stolen Rivers’ by Phillippa Yaa de Villiers ………………………………………………………………………… 9
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1 LIST OF PRESCRIBED POEMS 2017
Below is the list of poems you are required to study this semester. There are 20 in total: 10 of
the poems have been discussed in detail in Tutorial Letter 501, and we have included some
guiding questions to assist you when working through the other 10 poems.
Please note that the poems in the question set on Seasons Come to Pass in the
examination in May/June 2017 and in October/November 2017 will come from this list.
South African poetry
Title of poem Poet Anthology
page
number
Discussed
in tutorial
letter
‘The child who was shot dead by
soldiers at Nyanga’
Ingrid Jonker 216 501
‘Alexandra’ Wally Mongane Serote 239 501
‘In exile’ Arthur Nortje 261 501
‘In the shadow of Signal Hill’ Essop Patel 208 103
‘The Loneliness Beyond’ Sipho Sepamla 213 103
‘From Not Him’ Wopko Jensma 228 103
‘Men in Chains’ Mbyiseni Oswald Mtshali 229 103
‘A Woman’s Hands’ Eva Bezwoda 232 103
‘For Don M. – Banned’ Wally Mongane Serote 241 103
‘Ingrid Jonker’ Sally Bryer 244 103
‘Stolen Rivers’ Phillippa Yaa de Villiers 282 103
American and British poetry
‘Let me not to the marriage of true
minds’
William Shakespeare 52 501
‘On his blindness’ John Milton 65 501
‘To his coy mistress’ Andrew Marvell 68 501
‘When I have fears that I may cease to
be’
John Keats 94 501
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‘Dover Beach’ Matthew Arnold 112 501
‘The road not taken’ Robert Frost 134 501
‘Still I rise’ Maya Angelou 200 501
‘Stop all the clocks’ W.H. Auden 169 103
‘Talking in bed’ Philip Larkin 192 103