A common hate enriched our love for us:
Escape to parasitic ease disgusts;
discreet expensive hushes stifled us
the plangent wines became acidulous
Rich foods knotted to revolting clots
of guilt and anger in our queasy guts
remembering the hungry comfortless.
In draughty angles of the concrete stairs
or seared by salt winds under brittle stars
we found a poignant end to tenderness,
and, sharper than our strain, the passion
against our land's disfigurement and tension;
hate gouged out deeper levels for our passion -
a common hate enriched our love for us
By Dennis Brutus
the poem shows the conflict between white and black
ReplyDeleteA Common Hate Enriched Our Love for Us
ReplyDeleteThis poem is an anti-apartheid poem which shows the conflict between the white and black. Blacks are treated as they are beast not human beings by the whites and they had to suffer a lot in their own country. Everything that is belongs to Africa is the property of the Blacks but whites or Britishers came and colonized the people of Africa and the Blacks become the outsiders in their own country. Whites consider blacks as an inferior race and uncivilized people but eventually Blacks became aware of their rights and started to protest for emancipation. Unarmed people who were protesting were being killed by the government because the government would be willing to kill in order to stay in power. Blacks were determined to get freedom or death.
Title...a common hate for the blacks by the whites or colonizers or u can say outsiders who treated the natives like beast but the love and understanding among the blacks enabled them to protest of the suppression
Stanza 1st- A common hate developed by the colonizers against the Blacks enriched or strengthen their love. They are proud to be Blacks; Black is beautiful (negritude movement)
Whites suppressed us like bloodsucker and they are living because of us. They tactfully exploit us and their hate paved the way to the revolution against them and it brings the Blacks together.
Stanza 2nd- We the Blacks with our whole courage turned our guilt (of being Black) and anger (against suppression) into revolt by remembering the suffering given by the whites.
Stanza 3rd – Whites are like hard and rough angles of the concrete stairs which is made of stones and which doesn't contain water. Their hearts also lacking the kindness and sympathy and they are more like salty wind which can only burn but it wouldn't heal you. Kindness or tenderness is ending poignantly or they people are completely indifferent towards tenderness.
Stanza 4th – Their passion to disfigure or acquire our land is more powerful than any force and they hate our passion of patriotism and they are worried also about our passion for everything which we call ours but their hate enriched the Blacks to love each other and protest against the whites. Their hate make we people to stay together and it has become the tool for strengthen the Blacks.
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Deletea common hate of both the blacks and mulattoes for the whites, isn't it.
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ReplyDeleteThis is splendid. The hatred for blacks have become an unfortunate pedagogy of racism
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ReplyDeleteVery good analysis !!!! Blacks remain Blacks and are proud. If there is racism again now our days, this may gather us to as one. Together, we can fight it!!!
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