Steve Biki Poem Analysis

They call you Mister Steve Biko now you’re dead this is the poem that I have chosen. In this essay I am going to be explaining the meaning of the poem and also what effects it has on me. I am also going to give the reader an overview of Steve Biko. As Gabeba Baderoon has said in his statement poetry is an element that has given the suppressed a voice even more so during Apartheid when people were suppressed.
The poem about Steve Biko is an extraordinary example of someone making his voice heard during a time when you could not being supressed by a violent government. Steve Biko was an anti-Apartheid activist who promoted black consciousness and was the leader of the Black Consciousness Movement but he was then arrested by the South African police during the late 1970’s.He was than interrogated by them and he later died from the injuries and the police claimed it was due to a hunger strike. The reason this poem was written in this manner is because the writer or poet of this poem was also an anti-Apartheid activist and he did this because he too was supressed by the Apartheid government because of his writings. This poem also belongs to a certain time period a period when the anti-Apartheid movement began to take shape. …show more content…
In the first line of the first stanza of this poem one can see that there is a repetition of the heading. The reason one can say for this is to foster the idea into the readers head that Steve Biko is now being called Mister by his former oppressors. And still in the first stanza line 2 to 4 the writer goes on to say that the people that killed Steve Biko should in a way be haunted by what they have done and be left