What Do You Like About Ambush By Gbemisola Adeoti

There are so much to be liked about the poem; starting from The title of the poem, The fusion of repetition and metaphor to create perfect imageries, The rural depiction within the poem, The use of nature to draw the poem closer to reality, etc.Let's broaden them one after the other. The title of the poem speaks openly the intention of the poem. It reveals that danger is embedded in the poem and there will be hunters (giant hawk, giant whale) and...

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Analysis Of Life In Our Village By Markwei Martie

In our little villageWhen elders are around,Boys must not look at girlsAnd girls must not look at boysBecause the elders sayThat is not good.Even wn night comesBoys must play separately,Girls must play separately.But humanity is weakSo boys and girls meet.The boys play hide and seekAnd the girls play hide and seek.The boys know where the girls hideAnd the girls know where the boys hide_So in their hide and seek,Boys seek girls,And each to each singSongs...

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What Are The Theme In The Anvil And The Hammer By Kofi Awoonor

This post tends to point at few themes in the Kofi Awoonor's "The Anvil And The Hammer"; in order to get larger discussion about the poem [check complete analysis of the anvil and the hammer by kofi awoonor]"Caught between the anvil and the hammerIn the forging house of a new life,Transforming the pangs that delivered meInto the joy of new songsThe trapping of the past, tender and tenuousWoven with fibre of sisal andWashed in the blood of the goat...

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Describe The Feelings Of The Poet In Dry Your Tears Africa By BernardDadie

Like every long travel (the case where someone has been away for a very long time) part of the feelings such a person will develop are naka ot so different from the ones the poet developed before writing or composing this poem.Bernard Binlin Dadie, an ivorian poet, wrote this masterpiece to prove to Africa,his motherland, that he had compared home and abroad and realised that home is better; he even mentioned how waste of time, travelling has been...

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What Is Freedom In Letter To Martha 17 By Dennis Brutus

Letter To Martha 17 written by Dennis Brutus is a great poem that revealed that one never misses a good thing till it departs. The poem speaker found importance in things that never amounted to anything.The major theme of the poem is freedom. Because of imprisonment, the poem speaker realized the importance of being able to move freely from one distance to another without barricades, the importance of being able to see whatever one wishes to see...

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How Can You Explain Nostalgia In Birches By Robert Frost

Nostalgic feeling partially surfaced in the poem Birches by Robert Frost in line 23 to 24, "I should prefer to have some boy bend them/ As he went out and in to fetch the cows_"partially making reference to the nature of his own background as a rural boy who played alone swinging the birch trees remembering how the pleasure used to be "riding them down over and over again/ Until he took the stiffness outof them/ And not one but hung limp, not one...

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The Serving Girl By Gladys Casely-Hayford

The tone of the poem is sweet and that of praise. The tone glorified the beauty of "The Serving Girl" since ladies eyes are part of the factors that determine their beauty. The tone of the poem also praised the deligence and carefulness of the serving girl.The setting of the poem is rural. What do I mean by setting? A setting of a poem is the time, place, circustances surrounding the scenario(s) of a poem. Looking at the poem, it is vivid that where...

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Breaths By Birago Diop

Listen more often to things rather than beings.Hear the fire's voice,Hear the voice of the water.In the wind hear the sobbing of the trees,It is our forefathers breathing.The dead are not gone for ever.They are in the paling shadows,And in the darkening shadows.The dead are not beneath the ground, They are in the rustling tree,In the murmuring wood,In the flowing water,In the still water,In the lonely place, in the crowd;The dead are not deadListen...

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Analysis Of Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day

As we cherish and praise William Shakespeare for his sonnet 18, let's not forget Giacomo da Lentini, also known as Jacopo (il) Notaro, an Italian poet of the 13th century, who invented sonnet.Like most of the 154 Shakespearian sonnets, sonnet 18 was also speaking of love. That is why the theme of love, the theme of immunity and the theme of immortality can be found in the poem.Some new generation pupils might find it hard to understand the language...

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Analysis Of The Poem Passion Flower By Christopher Okigbo

According the article of St. John D. Parsons, "Christopher Okigbo originally wrote Passion Flower as a continuation of his poem "Sacrifice" in the series called Heavengate.[View The Poem Passion Flower by Christopher Okigbo]The passion flower is so named because its parts are said to resemble ceetain aspect of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, e.g. the corona represents the crown of thorns, the pistil and stamens the nails of the cross, and the sepals...

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Themes of Piano and Drums by Gabriel Okara

Gabriel Okara, the writer of "Piano and Drum" was born in Bayelsa state, Nigeria in 1921. A novelist and a poet; he was once a civil servant. His poem "Piano and Drums" was well beautified with imagery and symbolism.The themes of the poem can be divided into three: (1) Childhood reminiscence and its effect (2) Complexity of the present and future (3) Dilemma.Childhood reminiscence and its effectSince the poem is about the poet's experience with two...

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Homecoming By Lenrie Peters

The present reigned supremeLike the shallow floods over the guttersOver the raw paths where we had been,The house with the shutters.Too strange the sudden changeOf the times we buried when we leftThe times before we had properly arrangedThe memories that we kept.Our sapless roots have fedThe wind-swept...

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The Tether Will Suffer The Wear And The Tear

NOTE: "The tether will suffer the wear and the tear" is a handsome funny poem written by Akoli Penoukou; a Togolese teacher, poet and businessman born 1953. Akoli has been a motivator and mentor to many adults and youths (both home and abroad) with writings and way of life_ not excluding his alluring smile. It wouldn't be a hyperbole to say Akoli Penoukou is currently the Wole Soyinka of Togo because he's an icon.POEM:Tether which inhibited us in...

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Poetic Devices In Salute To The Elephant By Solomon Adeboye Babalola

The poem Salute To The Elephant was a Yoruba oral poem translated to English by Professor Solomon Adeboye Babalola (17/12/1926 - 15/12/2008). He was a professor at the University Of Lagos and among other things, he was for his love for ìjálá (hunters' song).Since this post aims at revealing the poetic devices in the poem: Salute To The Elephant; below are the poetic devices within the poem:1.SIMILEY is the use of like or as to create comparison....

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