South African Slam Poetry Analysis

DEPARTMENT OF DRAMA AND PRODUCTION STUDIES
SOUTH AFRICAN SLAM POETRY

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STUDENT NAME/S: Kaylyn

STUDENT SURNAME/S: Yon

STUDENT NUMBER/S: 21516764

DATE: 25 May 2015

ASIGNMENT TOPIC: South African Slam Poetry

LECTURER: Stephan Van Dyk

SUBJECT: Text Studies (Text Analysis)

SUBJECT CODE: TSTD 102

Slam Poetry is “a type of competition where people read their poems.”(Power Poetry ) it is performed all over the world and performers such as Koleka Putuma participates in this. As a drama student I’m captivated by this particular slam poet, reason being , she bases

Her writing is a coping mechanism in a society that aims to condition and frame what ails mankind, as unnecessary and trivial.”(Bozza 2014) Koleka has written multiple poems such as camouflage, woman and through the eyes of the public, but the one poem I looked at was “Woman”(Badilisha Poetry X-change ). When looking at this poem I saw that Koleka Putuma as a poet was one that felt strongly about woman’s rights. She herself could’ve been brought up in a household or community, where, woman were undermined and unappreciated. She looked at things that are currently happening in our country or countries today such as woman abuse and HIV/AIDS. She felt or understood what women go through and are still going through. She as a poet expresses the way she feels through her poems. She tries to understand how they are “a masterpiece unfathomable was fashioned and formed beyond conventional norms of society’s”(Badilisha Poetry X-change). Yet she says “You WOMAN Are Phenomenal.”(Badilisha Poetry X-change). The other poem I looked at was “Through The Eyes of The Public” this poem speaks of how the world has created this image of being someone they are not because of people being uneducated, thinking that the bad is good. In both poems she questions the way they look at life i.e. she questions to question their existence. She also speaks about how Christ, “Laying my altar, where the truth falter.”(Badilisha Poetry

“Secular Music Sensitive Ears”

Grab somebody sexy tell em hey give me everything tonight give me everything tonight
For all we know we might not get tomorrow lets do it tonight. Neyo

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Tie
A noose around it
Let your inner dirt and grime hang
Suspend appliance chords from collars
In hopes suicide will be more than just attention seeking
Tie
A piece of rubber to formalize the corpses appearance
When u tired of being
A one night this
Once off there and oh them
Blemished by soul Ties.
Sounds sexy doesnt it
Like it could be the title of a Marvin Gay number
So jam
Till every blood cell is