Eduqas GCSE English Literature · C720
Component 1
Revise: Drummer HodgeThe narrator lists ‘The meaning of the broad Karoo, / The Bush, the dusty loam,’ in stanza 2. The Karoo is a broad, dry southern African region; ‘Bush’ refers to scrub vegetation, and loam is soil. South African landscape words make unfamiliarity part of the reading experience.