Symbolism In Piano And Drums By Gabriel Okara

Discuss the use of symbolism in Okara's Piano and Drum WAEC MAY/JUNE 2017.Based on Oxford dictionary, symbolism is to represent a concept through symbols or underlying meanings of objects or qualitiesThe cultural dilemma poem "Piano and Drums" by Gabriel Okara is a whole load of symbols; from the title...

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Analysis Of Ozymandias By Percy Bysshe Shelley

The image was a shattered statue remaining only the face of the Greek king. Where beneath the stone image was written:'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'The poem titled "Ozymandias" is a sonnet, written in loose iambic pentameter, where the first stanza has...

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Analysis Of O Captain My Captain By Walt Whitman

Structurally, this twenty four line poem is divided into three equal stanza of eight lines per stanza. For the record, Walt Whitman is known for his unpredictable rhythm and rhyme scheme. Though the poem has some evidence of end rhyme scheme,  word arrangement looks wobbling and irregular like the current of the ocean. It is no surprise that the poem took such arrangement since the poem has a sea setting with the use of words such as "shore"...

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The Panic Of Growing Older By Lenrie Peters

The Panic of Growing Older is a poem that can be categorized under growth and living. Its context is partly scientific and mainly biological since biology is the study of all life or living matters.This poem is a creative effort of Lenrie Peters (1932 - 2009), a multi talented Gambian citizen who was widely known to be an author, a singer, a broadcaster, and to crown it all; a medical doctor.The poem tabled the human sequences of aging and its accompanied...

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