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Afrikaans term or phrase:
what's " Verlore Vlakte"?
English translation:
The Lost Plain
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liz askew
Mar 4, 2007 14:04
17 yrs ago
Afrikaans term
what's " Verlore Vlakte"?
Afrikaans to English
Art/Literary
Poetry & Literature
literature
Here is the sentence like this:" There are poems, I am sure, about the heart of aches for Verlore Vlake,about the melancholy of the sunset over the koppies,..."
I wonder what's mean the "Verlore Vlakte" ?
Thank you!
I wonder what's mean the "Verlore Vlakte" ?
Thank you!
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(English)
| 3 | The Lost Plain |
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Mar 4, 2007 14:16: Kim Metzger changed "Language pair" from "English" to "Afrikaans to English"
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Afrikaans term (edited):
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The Lost Plain
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Extrinsic contexts
There are poems, I am sure, about the heart that aches for Verlore Vlakte,
about the melancholy of the sunset over the koppies, the sheep beginning to
huddle against the first evening chill, the faraway boom of the windmill, the
first chirrup of the first cricket, the last twitterings of the birds in the thorn-
trees, the stones of the farmhouse wall still holding the sun’s warmth, the
kitchen lamp glowing steadily. They are poems I could write myself. It takes
generations of life in the cities to drive that nostalgia for country ways from
the heart. I will never live it down, nor do I want to. I am corrupted to the
bone with the beauty of this forsaken world…I have chosen at every moment
my own destiny, which is to die here in the petrified garden, behind locked
gates, near my father’s bones, in a space echoing with hymns I could have
written but did not because (I thought) it was too easy. (Coetzee 138)
The closing lines of J.M. Coetzee’s In the Heart of the Country lyrically capture the
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vlak-afloop verlore gaan; in geologie en hidrologie sluit "afloop" beide oppervlak- ... alluviale vlakte (alluvial plain). 'n Plat of hellende landstreek of ...
www.soils.org.za/grond A-D.pdf - Similar pages
Vlakte = plain?
I'm Lhttp://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:jPbvSv3t-S8J:linguanaut...
I’m lost
Ek is verlore.
Extrinsic contexts
There are poems, I am sure, about the heart that aches for Verlore Vlakte,
about the melancholy of the sunset over the koppies, the sheep beginning to
huddle against the first evening chill, the faraway boom of the windmill, the
first chirrup of the first cricket, the last twitterings of the birds in the thorn-
trees, the stones of the farmhouse wall still holding the sun’s warmth, the
kitchen lamp glowing steadily. They are poems I could write myself. It takes
generations of life in the cities to drive that nostalgia for country ways from
the heart. I will never live it down, nor do I want to. I am corrupted to the
bone with the beauty of this forsaken world…I have chosen at every moment
my own destiny, which is to die here in the petrified garden, behind locked
gates, near my father’s bones, in a space echoing with hymns I could have
written but did not because (I thought) it was too easy. (Coetzee 138)
The closing lines of J.M. Coetzee’s In the Heart of the Country lyrically capture the
[PDF]
CDP website launch
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML
vlak-afloop verlore gaan; in geologie en hidrologie sluit "afloop" beide oppervlak- ... alluviale vlakte (alluvial plain). 'n Plat of hellende landstreek of ...
www.soils.org.za/grond A-D.pdf - Similar pages
Vlakte = plain?
I'm Lhttp://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:jPbvSv3t-S8J:linguanaut...
I’m lost
Ek is verlore.
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