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P. J. PHILANDER
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‘n Soetsuurlemoen: Memoirs
van P.J. Philander.
Elsa Philander – 1949-1951
Elsa got sick that weekend. The doctor misdiagnosed her illness. First, he
treated her for flu, then for inflammation and on Sunday night for pneumonia.
Monday morning, she was too sick for words. We agreed that she should go
to Caledon's hospital and the doctor offered to drive us there. I held her in my
arms in the front seat and as we hurtled downhill at Hellshoogte at 113km per
hour, her eyes fluttered open.
For the first time in my life, I witnessed death. Like my wife’s Chinese blue
teacups, her eyes seem to have fine cracks. I tapped the doctor on his knee.
He stopped in a cloud of dust, used his hearing tube and after a while with a
sigh put it around his neck. My wife was devastated. She held our baby in her
arms on the back seat.
Reël 1: ALLITERASIE.
Reël 1: ELLIPS. Dui ‘n ruspouse aan. Dit is te moeilik vir die spreker om oor die
gebeurtenis te praat.
Reël 2: AKSENT. Spesifieke voëls wat gekom het. Teken van die nadernde dood.
Reël 2: VERKLEINING. Dui aan dat hulle ‘n klein kindjie kom haal.
Reël 2: Verwys na die 2-jarige dogtertjie, Elsa.
Reël 3: INVERSIE. Beklemtoon die woord klein. Sy was nog bitter klein, slegs 2-
jaar oud. Nog baba.
Reël 4: Sy is besig om van koors te yl (delirious). Sy sien dinge wat nie bestaan nie
en gryp haastig en blindelings daarna.
Reël 4: Die dood is naby. Daar is nou slegs ‘n gordyn tussen haar en die dood.
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Reël 11: Hulle was nog nie eers halfpad hospitaal toe nie.
Reël 11: ALLITERASIE – beklemtoon dat sy op die pad oorlede is.
Reël 12: PERSONIFIKASIE. Die dood is asemloos. Sy het opgehou asemhaal.
Versmoor a.g.v. die komplikasies van Witseerkeel.
Reël 12: Sy is in haar pa se arms, op die voorste sitplek van die kar, oorlede.
KOMMAS – Beklemtoon asemloos. Dogtertjie letterlik sonder asem.
RYMPATROON van eerste en laaste strofe is dieselfde – bind die gedig tot ‘n
eenheid.
Die ELLIPS in dié gedig word ook ‘n “sesuur” genoem – woorde VOOR en NA word
beklemtoon.
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