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Touch - Hugh Lewin

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An in-depth analysis of the matric IEB poem 'Touch.' I go over the general structure, background, techniques and meanings. As well as stanza and line-by-line analysis diving deep into tone, themes, meanings, poetic devices and how all this affects the reader

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  • November 3, 2020
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Touche
Lewin
Hugh
Poet Died in universal poem
nola is a
War
prisoner of apartheid
imprisoned for being a black
sympathizer
Banised the apartheid
by government
but came back after
apartheid
Title Touch
touch is a sense and could to
apply
of the senses but it is
any
universal in this poem as
everyone
can touch this is a
personal
intimate sensation

About
Relates to the effects of prison and
the Institutionalization faced
by
prisoners

, Structure
Burst of words that are disjoined from
this shows his metal state
margin
and the of
perhaps mimics rigidness
a
prison environment How he
is disjoined
due to
also feels ominous connection
Dark unnatural loosing
shows his restricted
circumstances
environment

Short lines makes it feel like he can't
articulate what he wants to hesitan
to even
say
imagine touch shows just how
out of touch he is it is like he is stumblin

Stanza 1
line 2 I'm to ask someone
going
in this sense it means

anyone at all he is so

desperate than it can be
anyone
line 3 to touch me

normal touch a handshake or
any
a pat on the back Hejust wants
form of comforting touch
any

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