March 04, 2016
Examine death as a limitation to human existence in the poem "Crossing The Bar" by Alfred Tennyson and "The Pulley" by George Herbert.The Pulley is a poem about God and the making of man. God made man and granted him everything needed for his living the earth including pleasure but used death as a deadline to his existence.Crossing The Bar is a poem about the warning as regards the reactions of the loved ones when the poet in question, finally embark...
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Friday, 4 March 2016
Saturday, 11 July 2015
July 11, 2015
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African Analysis, anvil, awoonor, Chat, death, hammer, kofi, poet
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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...
Wednesday, 24 June 2015
- June 24, 2015
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- birches, Chat, death, frost, Non African Analysis, nostalgia, robert
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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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