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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.
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.
Isobel Dixon's "Plenty" is a poem in free verse, using lines of varying length organized into eight quatrains. The poem contrasts past and present, with the poet's childhood recalled...
Examine the diction closely and you’ll find plenty (no pun intended) of words used to describe hardship that also suggest, well… plenty: for example, the dam leaking, if looked at another way, could suggest overflowing; describing the long dry season as an expanse of drought is a clearer one.
29 Φεβ 2020 · This poem analysis of ‘Plenty’ by Isobel Dixon makes you think so much about the difference between wealth and poverty; having everything or nothing. I really love this poem and this analysis. It helps break apart some of the major themes and examine important language features.
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.
