July 13, 2016
Wole Soyinka’s “Telephone Conversation” is an articulate exchange of words between a dark West African man and his British landlady that unrelenting verges onthe question of apartheid. The poet makes use of the most clear means to voice his views, through a telephone conversation, where there is immediate and natural exchange. It shows a one-to-one discussion between the two. The talk between a dark and a white individual at once shows universal...
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Wednesday, 13 July 2016
Monday, 6 July 2015
July 06, 2015
samueldpoetry
African Analysis, analysis, Audio, mortem, poem, post, Soyinka, wole
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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...
Monday, 8 June 2015
- June 08, 2015
- samueldpoetry
- africa, African Analysis, akoli, Chat, Non African Analysis, noose, penoukou, poet, poetropical, Soyinka, tether
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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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