“Kgadi’a Bakone” N.S Puleng

Abstract

Poetry continues to be read as the subjective expression of an individual voice, but it is a voice that continues to be increasingly opposed or separated from society in relation to its deeper meaning and reference. While there is no such thing as a “Typical” language of a poem, certain aspects of the writing of language in poems like that of N.S Puleng have become heavily identified with and reflect issues as specific as sexism. In this poem sexism is manifested in many ways-in phrased with negative stereotypes of women, in writing that actively represents the natural presence of the speaker behind the poem and in poets and in poetic writing that presupposes praise but emphasized the forces of patriarchy which pervade many societies.