Name : Rohimatul Khiyaroh

NPM : 172122071
Course : Creative Writing

Poetry Analysis Sheet

1. What does the title mean? Take a look at the title and reflect (think) on what you
think it means:
- I think the meaning of the tittle is express certain intentions to someone so
that he/she returns to his place of origin, that is home and he/she do not feel
that he/she is alone despite of many things happened. Who knows what the
meaning of home for her/him, the person who take home would place
her/him in a more comfortable place.
2. Put it in your own words: Read the poem two or three times. You will see
something different each time you read the poem. Write a brief summary of the
poem in your own words. Highlight or list some of the words (nouns, verbs,
phrases) that are important to understanding the poem.
- The poem is talking about the efforts of a person/people has put in to bring
her who very important for them to take home. Begins with reminding of
such a cool place to live by talking about how a resting place is provided
with buchu and mint that fragnance and beautiful for someone to feel
comfortable. They wanted to take her away from a dark place where the eyes
of the monster man looked down on her body and did not appreciate her as
human nature. Then they will do anything to protect her and bring her in
peace that is home.
3. What do you think the poem means? Now think about the meaning of the poem.
Remember that some poems have a deeper meaning. Try to answer these
questions. Your poem may not need all of these questions.
a. Who is the subject of the poem?
- There is no subject that is clearly shown, it is just shown in the first
person, that is I.
 b. What are they talking about?
- I think about the efforts of a person/people has put in to bring her who
very important for them to take home.
c. Why do you think the author wrote the poem?
- The Author write this poem is a tribute to Sarah Baartman and to release
Baartman’s remains from the Muse de L’Homme;
d. When is the poem happening?
- The poem is written in 1998, by Diana Ferrus when the poem is one of the
most important poems of political significance in the 20th Century.
e. Where is the poem happening?
- The poem is happening in France
f. What is the poet’s attitude?
- In the poem’s attitude there is full of sincerity. Even by the efforts or what
someone/people do to protect her. There is also an irony when the people
do not appreciate the object as a human nature.
g. How does the poem shift from person to person or between different times or
places?
- First, the poem describes the place where Sarah Baartman came from and
it makes the reader feels heartwarming. Then talking about how she was
mistreated makes the poem strong by talking about what really happened.
After that the poem show how the sincerely of the author to protect her
with various way.
4. Poetic devices: Tools of the poet. Identify different poetic devices in the poem.
They may only have some of these items.
o Simile – comparison using like or as
- “who likens your soul to that of satan”
o Metaphor – a direct comparison
- “and declares himself the ultimate God”
- “your blankets are covered in buchu and mint”
o Personification – giving human qualities to nonhuman things
 - “and the water in the stream, chuckles sing-song as it hobbles along,
over little stones”
- “where the ancient mountains shout your name”
o Imagery – descriptions that appeal to our five senses:
Touch:
- I have made your bed at the foor of the hill
- I have come to wrench you away
- Who dissects your body bit by bit
- I will cover your face with the palms of my hands
- I will run my lips over the lines in your neck
Sight:
- The air, is cool there, and thesun does not burn
- The lush green grass beneath the big oak trees
- And I will feast my eyes on the beauty of you
Sound:
- And the water in the stream, chuckles sing-song
Smell:
- Your blankets are covered in buchu and mint
o Tone – what emotion does the speaker use as he talks
- Sincerely: “For I have come to bring you peace”, “I have come to
soothe your heavy heart”.
- Irony: “who lives in the dark, with his clutches of imperialism”,
“who dissects your body bit by bit”, “who likens your soul to that of
satan”.
- Aggressive: “I have coem to wrench you away”.
- Sarcastic: “away from the poking eyes of the man made monster”.
o Point of view – who is the telling the poem
- First person
o Alliteration – repeating the same letter
 - I’ve come to take you home, I have come to, I will, I have made your
bed at the foot of the hill, Your blankets are covered in buchu and
mint, The proteas stand/ in yellow and white, I will sing for you, For
you have brought.
5. Theme. Identify the theme (central idea) of the poem. How does the theme
convey the poem’s message?
- We can know when the poem is written and where the poem is happening.
Then when look at to the tittle “I have come to take you home”, it can be a
secret that something outside has happened. There is a person want to take
someone home where so many people said that the most comfortable place
is home.
6. Look at the title again. Now look at the title again. Do you now have a different
interpretation of the title?
- Generally I do not have a different interpretation of the tittle because I also
read even a little of the historical of the poem. But I am sure there is
something different of the interpretation in it.
7. Is there any cultural or historical information about the poem or the poet that
you think is important to the poem? Can you explain how this is important?
- The poem is important because there is a cultural and historical information
of Sarah Baartman, one of the dark chapters of European civilization.
Sarah’s appearance on freakshow is seen as a form of degradation,
civilization, sexual and economic exploitation of black woman.