Symbols And Images As Poetic Techniques In South African Poetry, The Example Of Dennis Brutus And Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali

This study examines the use of symbols and images as poetic techniques in South African poetic writing. The poems seek to address the issues of socio-political injustice, apartheid, oppression and man’s inhumanity to man in the society, a kind of counter – attacking the apartheid system of the South African society, which allows for inequalities and abject poverty of a section of the society while the other section thrives in affluence. At the end we discover how Dennis Brutus and Oswald Mtshali expose the terrible state of affairs in South Africa through their revolutionary implantation of symbols and images.

Title Page  

Certification  

Dedication  

Acknowledgement  

Abstract  

Table of Contents  

CHAPTER ONE: 

INTRODUCTION  

1.1  Background of the Study  

1.2  Biography of Dennis Brutus and Oswald Mtshali  

1.3  Purpose of the Study  

1.4  Justification of the Study  

1.5  Scope and Limitation of the Study  

1.6  Methodology  

  End notes  

CHAPTER TWO:  

LITERATURE REVIEW  

2.1  Poetry as a Societal Outlook  

2.2  The Sociological Approach  

2.3  Apartheid in South African  

      End Notes  

CHAPTER THREE:  

(A) Symbols and Images as Poetic Techniques in the Poem of Dennis Brutus “a Troubadour I Traverse”  

  End Notes  

(B) Symbols and Images as Poetic Techniques in the Poems of Oswald Mtshali  

  End Notes  

CHAPTER FOUR: 

SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION  

4.1  Summary  

4.2  Conclusion  

  Bibliography  

  Appendices