In your opinion, did ingrid jonker use language effectively to create a sense of a particular time and place in “the child is not dead”? respond in at least 150 words, giving reasons to support your answer and referring to specific words or phrases from the poem.

Such was the impact of poet Ingrid Jonker that decades after her death in 1965, the late Nelson Mandela read her poem, The Child who Was Shot Dead by Soldiers at Nyanga, at the opening of the first democratic Parliament on 24 May 1994.

“The time will come when our nation will honour the memory of all the sons, the daughters, the mothers, the fathers, the youth and the children who, by their thoughts and deeds, gave us the right to assert with pride that we are South Africans, that we are Africans and that we are citizens of the world,” he said 20 years ago.

“The certainties that come with age tell me that among these we shall find an Afrikaner woman who transcended a particular experience and became a South African, an African and a citizen of the world. Her name is Ingrid Jonker. She was both a poet and a South African. She was both an Afrikaner and an African. She was both an artist and a human being.”

She had written the poem following a visit to the Philippi police station to see the body of a child who had been shot dead in his mother’s arms by the police in the township of Nyanga in Cape Town. It happened in the aftermath of the massacre of 69 people in Sharpeville, south of Johannesburg, in March 1960. They were marching to the police station to protest against having to carry passbooks.

Yes, Ingrid jonker used language effectively to create a sense of time and place in the poem.

Explanation:

The writer uses the language to describe in-depth the venue and the environment and the time in which the child was shot dead. For example, when she says in the poem, "The child is not dead not at Langa nor at Nyanga not at Orlando nor at Sharpeville nor at the police station at Philippi where he lies with a bullet through his brain".

She is referring to different places where a particular event occured(townships where south Africans held protests), where some horrific incidents like the Sharpeville Massacre and the events at Langa and Nyanga where the child was shot in the head.

Jonker paints a picture with her words which we the readers can more or less feel rather than just see. Her words are effective enough to portray what exactly happened in those times, effective for us to feel the rage in her tone and the anguish in her words. Throughout the poem, jonker is able to deliver her theme which is oppression.

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