‘Parachute’ Commentary ‘Parachute’ by Lenrie Peters is an expressive poem, in which the speaker describes the ‘feeling’ of parachuting. The poem can be described as both; a statement using imagery, and a description trying to evoke feeling in the reader. The speaker seems to have gone...

Four summer poems for Cape Town is a poem written by Antjie Krog. Cape Town is a city in the very south of South Africa. Antjie Krog was born in the Free state in 1952 and, ironically, this is situated in the very north of South Africa and was a very racist province with Afrikaans views while Cape ...

“They Live in a Rickety House” Changed stanzas: Us folks with our tracts, When their dens we enter in, We point to their shirtless backs, As the fruits of beer and gin. We quote them texts, to prove That their hearts are hard as stone; And we inform them of the fact, That the fault ...