Question

"The Child is not Dead" Ingrid Jonker Summarize the poem.

Answer 1

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Step-by-step explanation:

Jonker's poem "The child is not dead," is about the demonstrations against Apartheid. In one of these protests, a child was shot dead by police. However, Jonker's poem suggests that while the child is dead physically, his legacy still lives on to fight oppression. The lines, "The child is not dead not at Langa nor at Nyanga not at Orlando nor at Sharpeville nor at the police station at Philippi where he lies with a bullet through his brain," show that while the child has a bullet through his brain, he is not dead. The poet furthers this theme by saying that the child's legacy is everywhere. Including at the assemblies and law-givings, the hearts of mothers, and in all of South Africa. At the end of the poem, the poet writes, "the child grown into a giant journeys through the whole world Without a pass." This suggests that the child as a symbol against the oppression of Apartheid. since all black South Africans had the carry passbooks when they left their homeland.

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Answer 2

The poem "The Child is not Dead" by Ingrid Jonker is about the child who was shot dead by the soldiers in Nyanga, Zimbabwe and all other children or men from Africa. Those who are left at home or those who moved to the United States. Those children's father and mother scream for freedom and righteousness, those children who grew up to be great men, or those children who were not able to grow up to be somebody.