IN AND AROUND THE YACHT BASIN – SIMON'S TOWN (GEOFFREY HARESNAPE)

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Assignment 1

ENGLISH STUDIES: APPROACHING LITERATURE AND WRITING

Course code: ENN101D

Student number: 3455-277-4

Assignment 1: English Studies: Approaching Literature and Writing (Course code: ENN101D) Student number: 3455-277-4

DECLARATION

Name and student number: Gerrie Bouwer (3455-277-4)

Assignment topic: ENN101D Assignment 01

Signature:

G. J. Bouwer

Witness: Mildred Mthembu

Witness: Wynand Grobler

ESSAY: IN AND AROUND THE YACHT BASIN - SIMON'S TOWN (GEOFFREY HARESNAPE)

The poem conveys descriptive imagery of the narrator standing at a point in Simon's Town where he gazes at the scenery of the town.

With reference to the title the narrator is standing in the False Bay Yacht Club (Simon's Town [sa]) overlooking the basin in which Simon's Town is geographically located. He observes the waterfront and the surrounding hills festered with multicultural architecture and indigenous shrubbery (Jackson 2008).

The narrator's view is obscured by the "rigging tangle" of the yachts' masts. As he looks beyond the masts, he selectively describes three architectural styles of dwellings crusted on the surrounding hills. His impression is uncomplimentary and detached as he employs adjectives such as "rhizomes" and "fungi" to describe the buildings: Modern apartments, Cape Dutch homes and English style abodes.

The narrator articulates the impact civilization has had on the natural habitat: "The scrubby hills protest" to the invasion of a foreigner, "Europe's garden". This also places Simon's Town in the context of the historical timeline. Since it was proclaimed by the Dutch in...