Analysis of For My Mother In Her Mid 90s by Ama Ata Aidoo

In this female glorifying poetic piece of Ama Ata Aidoo, the poet indirectly revealed the special qualities possessed by her mother; not forgetting to point at people's amazement that her mother was still hail and hearty at the age of ninety and above.As seen in stanza 12:"Listen to the “is-your-mother-still-alive”...

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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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