Section A: Reading
Reading Poetry
3 Looking at structure
Student Book Page 67
Activity
5
Study the poem ‘Limbo’ by Kamau Brathwaite on page 64. Complete
the following chart to:
show some more examples of how the poet uses repetition
suggest reasons why the poet uses repetition.
Words
repeated
Lines where words
are repeated
is the silence Line 1, line 7
in front of me
stick hit
ground
Why the poet uses repetition
To emphasise the quiet
To compare the tension of
facing the limbo stick with
that of facing the long dark
night that lies ahead