February 04, 2017
This is another African poem that focuses its subject on the conflict of culture_ sharing the same theme with the poem titled "Piano and Drums" by Gabriel Okara.One can hear the poem speaker's willingness to balance both culture or lifestyle by saying in line 11-12 "Sew the old days for us, our fathers/ That we can wear them under our new garment". The issue of colonialism is not out the picture in this poem "The Anvil and The Hammer" by Kofi Awoonor....
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Saturday, 4 February 2017
February 04, 2017
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- 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...
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