please,please,please help me with this poem "watching the men planing wood in a factory yard".Can you please analze it and i need a background profile on the poet of the poem "jennifer davids" also i need any comments on the poem its self



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/19/2006 02:28PM by lg.

Can you post a copy of the poem?

To get information on the poet, have you tried searching for her name on Google or any other Internet search engine? Is she the Jennifer Davids who writes song lyrics? (The poem title you have cited doesn't sound like the title of a song lyric).

Ian, I don't believe the poet and the songwriter are the same person. Check the dates of these publications:

[www.arts.uwa.edu.au]

[www.historybookshop.com]

[www.jenniferdavids.com]


Les

You may well be right, Les. Kwandile is probably referring to the South African poet:

[tinyurl.com]

but without a copy of the poem (which doesn't appear to be on the Internet) we can't help on it, no matter how many times Kwandile says 'please'.

Ian

According to research I've done, though I can't find a biography, Jennifer Davids, the author wrote in the late 1960's. From the photograph of Davids, the singer, she looks to be about 23.

Perhaps, our South African readers could enlighten us.


Les

These brief biographical details of the South African JD are given in one of the sites found by Google:

Born in Cape Town (1945), School teacher in England,
returned to Cape Town 1972.

Poems in Contrast, New Coin, New Nation.

Collection of poetry: ‘Searching for Words’. 1974.

Here's a bio of the singer: [www.jenniferdavids.com]



Les