Refer to stanzas nine to eleven of the Poem: "Higher Education" by B.W Vilakazi and answer the following questions: 1. The speaker's tone at the beginning of the poem is weary and defeated. In stanzas nine and ten, there is a change in tone. What is the tone in stanzas nine to ten? Quote two words or phrases to support your answer. (3) 2. Why do you think the speaker continues with his studies despite all the challenges? Quote from the poem to substantiate your answer. (2) 3. Do you think the speaker achieved his desires? Explain your answer. (1)

Below is the poem:

B.W. Vilakazi, Higher Education

1. When my thinking was but folly, 2. Then I dreamed of satisfaction 3. If I read my books and studied, 4. Pondered learning, mused on wisdom, 5. Striving for some understanding: 6. Now, today, my mind is weary.

7. I have spent so many years 8. Turning over leaves of books 9. Whose authors' skins were white; 10. And every night I sat alone 11. Until the new day's sun arose: 12. But now, today, my eyes are throbbing.

13. And poets who were black I called on, 14. Those who sang of kings' ambitions, 15. Those who praised our brimming bowls, 16. And their wisdom too, I thought on, 17. Mixing it with white men's teachings: 18. Now my mind's a battlefield.

19. He who does not know these things 20. And sleeps untroubled through the night, 21. Never reading till the dawn, 22. Not knowing Cicero or Caesar, 23. Shaka, Ngqika or Moshweshwe: 24. He, today, is light of heart.

25. Those I grew with, those unlettered, 26. When they meet me, they despise me, 27. Seeing me walk on naked feet 28. While they travel in their cars,

29. Leaving me to breathe their dust: 30. These today are chiefs and masters.

31. Should I try to change my ways 32. And pick up crumbs such men may drop - 33. These, my fellows who have prospered? 34. But I know that I am fettered, 35. Prisoned by my love of learning: 36. What I am and love, enslaves me.

37. But now I think about the time 38. When age and weakness must defeat me; 39. Now {search my bags and pockets, 40. But I find there, only books; 41. These, no matter where, pursue me: 42. let me then resolve their message.

43. I see the names of all the nations, 44. I see ancestral eyes regard me 45. "While ancestral shields are hidden 46. As, from their tombs, the spirits listen 47. And tell me I should come and share 48. Their bowl, for I am not forgotten.

49. So I absorb and add and store 50. Wisdom for the Zulus' children. 51. The day may come to see that treasure, 52. The day may come to have discussions 53. And learn from all my nightly writings, 54. Never written from ambition: 55. For you, ancestral spirits, urged me, 56. Inspiring me through hours of darkness!

57. But then I shall be here no longer.