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Grade The Dry Grass Sings Stephen Gray This poem is about Africa before and after the rain. Stanza 1: When the as hot as a baking put Simile: The sky is so hot This mostly speaks And the whole earth shrinks like a skin that it feels like you will bake under it. about dryness and heat, and the effect The mopane leaves clap and the eagle cries Simile: The ground is so this has on the plants.
12 kwi 2013 · An East African poet for today’s Another 21 Days/21 Poems. Grass will grow. If you should take my child Lord. Give my hands strength to dig his grave. cover him with earth. Lord send a little rain. For grass will grow. If my house should burn down. So that the ashes sting the nostrils. Making the eyes weep. Then Lord send a little rain.
Terms in this set (5) about the poet. -Shimmer Chinodya 1957 Zimbabwe. -master degree in creative writing from university of lowa. -won the 1990 commonwealth writer's prize Africa region. type. descriptive poem - tells of his experiences of the grass in Africa. tone. descriptive, but changes to serious and thoughtful.
THE Nyakyusa 1 are a Bantu-speaking group, numbering some 150,000, who live in a portion of the Great Rift Valley at the north end of Lake Nyasa. Their country is fertile, the rainfall is heavy and well distributed, and they are skilled and diligent cultivators, growing a great variety of crops.
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When Venus is visible in the morning sky just before sunrise, it is the Morning Star. The Herero called it okanumaihi, “Little Drinker of Sweet Milk”, on account of its appearance at milking time. The Nyae Nyae !Kung Bushmen called it “Old Star” and said that it guided the Sun across the sky.
Africa, at its widest not more than a hundred miles, stretching along the west side of Lake Nyasa and the Shirb River, it presents a very small claim to notice among the wide terri-tories of our African dominions. The native population numbers under a million, and the European settlers, mission-
