Analysis Of Alone By Maya Angelou

Friendship, love, unity, health, wealth, etc are the elements that drove Maya Angelou's heart into this creative piece. She couldn't deny the strength in wealth but she acknowledged that wealth and riches were not fulfillment.[Click Here If This' Not What You Want To Read]Okay, lets look at the first stanza of the poem where the poem speaker opened with "Last night" and such phrase weigh very deeply big for anyone who's willing to agree to my tiny...

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What Are The Theme In The Anvil And The Hammer By Kofi Awoonor

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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Analysis Of Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day

As we cherish and praise William Shakespeare for his sonnet 18, let's not forget Giacomo da Lentini, also known as Jacopo (il) Notaro, an Italian poet of the 13th century, who invented sonnet.Like most of the 154 Shakespearian sonnets, sonnet 18 was also speaking of love. That is why the theme of love, the theme of immunity and the theme of immortality can be found in the poem.Some new generation pupils might find it hard to understand the language...

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Analysis Of The Poem Passion Flower By Christopher Okigbo

According the article of St. John D. Parsons, "Christopher Okigbo originally wrote Passion Flower as a continuation of his poem "Sacrifice" in the series called Heavengate.[View The Poem Passion Flower by Christopher Okigbo]The passion flower is so named because its parts are said to resemble ceetain aspect of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, e.g. the corona represents the crown of thorns, the pistil and stamens the nails of the cross, and the sepals...

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The Tether Will Suffer The Wear And The Tear

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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What Makes A Good Poet?

My interest is really in thiscould it be a hairy personor master of Shakespearean words?Must he know the life in prisonlike Chris Abani for instanceor the famous white bearded man?Maybe complexity makes a good poetor maybe the master of imagery?My interest is in what makes a good poet,a good bard, a good muse, a good poetessI know the renaissance will credit themselvesI'm sure the free verses will raise their handsthe traditionalist sijo, tankaand...

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