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"Plenty" is a poem by South African poet Isobel Dixon, published in her 2001 collection Weather Eye. In the poem, the speaker reminisces about her childhood, a time marked by poverty and drought, and in focuses in particular about her strained relationship with her mother.
‘Plenty’ by Isobel Dixon describes the relationships a speaker had while she was a child and how she interprets them now that she is an adult. The poem begins with the speaker informing the reader that she had four siblings and they all tormented their mother.
Plenty. When I was young and there were five of us, all running riot to my mother’s quiet despair, our old enamel tub, age-stained and pocked. upon its griffin claws, was never full. Such plenty was too dear in our expanse of drought. where dams leaked dry and windmills stalled.
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Plenty. When I was young and there were five of us, all running riot to my mother’s quiet despair, our old enamel tub, age-stained and pocked. upon its griffin claws, was never full. Such plenty was too dear in our expanse of drought. where dams leaked dry and windmills stalled.
21 Οκτ 2023 · Isobel Dixon's 'Plenty' is a poem that contrasts childhood past with adult present, poverty with comfort. Simile, hyperbole and assonance help make this a moving poem about family memories and love.
“Plenty” recalls a childhood in which the speaker and her sisters felt resentment towards their mother due to her strict rationing of everyday goods, even bathwater. The speaker recalls how she thought her mother was “mean” (i.e., stingy and unkind), and how when their mother wasn’t around,
