Analysis of to a Bedbug by Sam Mbure

Two important messages surfaced from the complaining voice of the poem speaker are; the victim's constant nuptial lost of blood and the victim's poverty condition. It can be said that one problem led to another in the sense that it might be the poem speaker's poverty that caused his "little bed" infested.Sam...

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Review Of Diviner's Hand By Lola Shoneyin

This is maternal and more like a soliloquy. A mother speaking to her baby while combing her hairs. She had the worries of whether she would live old to tell the baby all the most needed experiences of life.In the first stanza, she had the worry about how long she would live on earth to take care of the baby and comb the baby's hairs:"Sometimes I wonderhow much longer I shall be hereto bite your hairwith my wooden toothcomb."She saw death as something...

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Fascination In The Poem Stanley Meets Mutesa

The Fascination:Fascination In The Poem Stanley Meet Mutesa by David RubadiriThe Poem:Such a time of it they had;The heat of the dayThe chill of the nightAnd the mosquitoes that followed.Such was the time andThey bound for a kingdom.The thin weary line of carriesWith tattered dirty rags to cover their...

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