Poetry - My Father Would Not Show Us

Question 1

Context for My Father

Answer 1

• Written 1988 by Ingrid de Kok (1951-).
• She was South African and lived through apartheid.
• About the death of the generation of private men who didn’t share emotions.

Question 2

Summary of My Father

Answer 2

A commentary on men hiding their tears and turning away, from of a narrator mourning their dead father who hid.

Question 3

Theme Comparisons for My Father

Answer 3

• Family - Nettles
• Loss - One Flesh

Question 4

Message of My Father

Answer 4

Effect of death