Use Of Visual Image In The Pulley By George Herbert

As we have mentioned in few of the articles in naijapoets, The Pulley by George Herbert relates man and God, God bestowed man (his creation) blessings such as strength, beauty, wisdom and so on.The language of the poem is simple and conversational with suggestive tone. The varying visual images created by George Herbert shows the supremacy of God over man (his creator). The title of the poem portrayed the strength of God (the creator) judging by...

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Thematic Analysis Of Ambassadors Of Poverty By Phillip Umeh

THEMATIC ANALYSIS(a) Theme Of Poverty And Suffering(b) Theme Of Selfishness(c) Theme Of Deceitfulness(d) Theme Of Political And White-collar Corruption(e) Theme Of Negligence And NonchalanceTheme of poverty and suffering must come to mind first in this poem. It is the outcome of mismanagement, embezzlement, and awkward supremacy within the country that led the poet to lament on the wide and deep abysm poverty has become in the country. The poet summarized...

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Analysis Of The Immigrants By Margaret Atwood

The Immigrants is a poem with expected poetic devices as follow: Repetitions found in the poem are land, unknown, further, year, poor, wood glass. Assonances are "to be told" "the old one, sow" "I wish I could". Alliterations are "gallstones in glass bottle" "carry their carpetbags" "flat the green fruit". Margaret Atwood wrote this 9 stanza poem with no end rhyme scheme but beautified each stanza with the use of enjambment which made the poem flow...

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Analysis Of Expelled by Jared Angira

Expelled by Jared Angira is the matter at hand in naijapoets.comAll the way to Kenya, Jared Angira was born 21st November, 1947. isa Kenyan poet. Studied commerce at the University of Nairobi from 1968 until 1971. He also founded the Kenya Writers' Association.I took a very close look at the poem "Expelled" and I saw the following themes: Encroachment, Exploitation,Hopelessness and Colonialism."We had traded in this market competively perfecttill...

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Analysis Of As Kingfisher Catch Fire By Gerard Manley Hopkins

AS KINGFISHER CATCH FIRE is a great poem that is full of sounds, each line is with either alliteration, assonance or both. Not like the Shakespeare's, Hopkins' sonnet didn't follow a rigid end rhyme pattern and spoke of religion and its influence on human.Gerard Manley Hopkins canned the poem with a flexible lid but the complex content was only to be enjoyed by those who can patiently digest it. The poem began with similes, describing how a situation...

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Analysis Of Nine To Night By Toyin Adewale Gabriel

Nine To Night is a poem written by alluring, rosy, smiling, ambitious Nigerian poetess princess; Toyin Adewale Gabriel. To be candid, I've seen close to fifteen of the her poems online and guess what, they are mesmerizingly charming.From the way see Nine To Night, the poem was written to celebrate her birthday "staring 40 in the face" which began the second stanza of the six stanza poem is prove to hold.While searching for the themes of the poem,...

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Thematic Analysis Of Water By Philip Larkin

Water by Philip Larkin is a simple complex poem and the complexity of meaning within the simple structure of the poem has given it various opinions.I will be dishing out my own point of view irrespective of its acceptance. I see freedom of choice and religious perspectives as the themes of the poem.Philip Larkin began the poem as if someone requested his advice on the issue of starting a religion. He said that if he was called in to start a religion,...

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Poetic Devices In Snake By D. H. Lawrence

POETIC DEVICES IN SNAKE BY D.H. LAWRENCEthe poet made use of carefully selected words in describing the actions of the snake: "He lifted his head from his drinking as cattle do and looked vaguely as drinking cattle do. And flickered his two forked tongue from his lips and mused a moment..."The poet made use of images such as "Sicilian July" "Accursed human education"He personified the snake with the use of the third person pronoun "a king in exile""and...

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Analysis Of The Blind Man By Pius Oleghe

ANALYSIS OF THE BLIND MAN BY PIUS OLEGHEPoet:Pius Oleghe, the author of this poem is a Nigerian. He once worked as a teacher. A graduate of the University of Ibadan that is why this poem (The Blind Man) first appeared in Nigerian Student Verse.Poem:Was that a sound piercing his darkness?The blind man shuddered:"Who's there?"He gasped; jerked forward, strained ears, ruffled poiseTo catch a repetition of the noise_Which never came again.He rectified,...

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Analysis Of Crossing The Bar By Lord Alfred Tennyson

Crossing The Bar by Lord Alfred Tennyson 1809-1892, such a poem can be considered an elegy. It was note that Tennyson asked his son to always add this poem to the end of his anthologies. As a sign of closure to his life on earth and to his world of poetic living. A four stanza poem with four lines each stanza. The poem holds a simple diction flowed with metaphors and symbolisms; it has a rhyme pattern of ABAB CDCD, etc.The poem speaks of the poet's...

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Analysis Of The Pulley By George Herbert

Here are the themes of the poem, "The Pulley" by George Herbert:(1) The limitation in human existence(2) The blessings bestowed man through creation(3) The problems associated to riches(4) The vanity of possessions in presence of lonelinessThe following are the figuratives within the poem:(1) Rhyme pattern of ABABA CDCDC, etc.(2) Personification in line 19-20 "If goodness lead him not, yet weariness/May toss him to my breast"(3) Allusion to the creation...

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Preoccupation Of Lenrie Peters In The Panic Of Growing Older

Lenrie Peters preoccupation in the poem: "The Panic Of Growing Older" can be considered as how some factors (time,ambition,hope,etc) affect the adult stage of human beings.Lenrie Peters, the author of the poem, took age 20 upwards as his case study to show how the events of adulthood unfold. He revealed that a person begins adulthood with beautiful hopes:"at twentystilled by hopeof gigantic successand exploration"Ten years later, one has gained the...

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Deep Analysis Of Post Mortem By Wole Soyinka

Post Mortem was written by the Nigerian world class poet, Prof. Wole Soyinka.DenotationThe poem began with the poem speaker, preferring dead plants to dead human beings because human beings become stiff and cold "in the cold hand of death..."(line 4) and everything in them become opposite: their talking become "cotton filled", their manhood or man-pike become small like larva of an insect.The poem speaker in the third and forth stanza revealed the...

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Analysis Of The School Boy By William Blake

For broader understanding,[naijapoets recommend you read:- The Summary and Themes Of The Schoolboy]The Poem"I love to rise in a summer morn,Where the birds sing on every tree;The distant huntsman winds his horn,And the skylark sings with me:O what sweet company!But to go to school in a summer mornO it drives all joy way!Under a cruel eye outworn,The little one spends the dayIn sighingand dismay.And then at times I drooping sit..." the poem went on...

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The Things I've Learned (by Missdestiny)

I've learned that knowing "what matters most", seldom happens until it's too late.That success isn't measured in dollars or assets, but in the company you keep and how much you laugh each day.That if you can't stay lovers, you should at least stay friends - and if you can't, it was probably never?true love to begin with.That the best friends are the old ones. They knew you then and still see the "real you" now, even when you're pretending to be someone...

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Analysis Of Ambush By Gbemisola Adeoti

PURPOSE:-This article will speak of the poet, the themes, the mood, the figures of speech, etc.SUITABILITY:-This article is suitable for; (a) All lovers of poetry (b) All lovers of Literature-In-English (c) Students for WASSE/WAEC, NECO, GCE, A-LEVEL, IJAMB examination (d) Students of English Language...

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Connotation And Denotation Of Futility By Wilfred Owen

Futility happens to be a poem written by Wilfred Owen, English poet and soldier who was born in March 18, 1893 at Oswestry, Shropshire England but died in November 4, 1918 at Sambre Oise Canal France. Owen was said to have started poetry at the age of 17, today, he's still remembered for his beautiful...

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