A Poem About Victory

 There're two types of victory: The catapult victory And the rock victory So do allow me simplify The catapult victory is swift So swift as the speed of light While the rock victory is slow So slow as the flowing grease The Bible David is my case study David won Goliath with catapult Not...

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Comrade (by Kole Ade-Odutola)

The PoemThanks comrade, the chain is getting stronger as ourfate towards theriver bed of hope draws closer as our chain of thepast calls the riverbird by name not by the color of its plume, not bywhat it lacks or thesack that the hunter will weaveWe are bound to fateby the blood of our faiththat tomorrow CAN be betterI must go now, my thoughts are setting a path for melet me go before the moon divorces the skyand birds begin to beckon to one anotherand...

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Analysis Of Love III by George Herbert

Love III by George Herbert is an eighteen line love poem with a static rhythm plus end rhyme pattern of ABABCCDEDEFFGHGHII. The message of the poem is about the unconditional love of Christ and the unrighteous nature of human. Christ who was symbolized as love in the poem was seen assuring sinners of...

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Analysis Of Living Is A Fire By Ben Okri

Naijapoets.com loves to commence this analysis with the view of the poem's structure. A free verse in the sense that, the five stanzas don't rhyme nor maintain a similarity in line count per stanza. Note as well is that Ben Okri positioned each of his points of discuss in line with stanza break. The...

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Poetic Devices In Snake By D. H. Lawrence

POETIC DEVICES IN SNAKE BY D.H. LAWRENCEthe poet made use of carefully selected words in describing the actions of the snake: "He lifted his head from his drinking as cattle do and looked vaguely as drinking cattle do. And flickered his two forked tongue from his lips and mused a moment..."The poet made use of images such as "Sicilian July" "Accursed human education"He personified the snake with the use of the third person pronoun "a king in exile""and...

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Kwame Ataapim

Kwame Ataapim was born in famine:He lost his parents before his birth;He lost his sight before he could see;He lost his teeth before he could bite;He lost his feet before he could walk.Kwame Ataapim was born in war:He stood on the rock and split it apart;He tugged at the rope and tore it in two;He breathed on the sea and burnt it up;He gazed at the fire and froze it up.Kwame Ataapim was born in need:When they were eating they never called him;When...

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They Walked And Talked (composed by Prof. Uche Okeke)

They talked and walked,walked and talked and talked_talkative homing dames;mothers, grandmothers, all homing,returning from a distant martbaskets on heads, words on lips_gossip or talk tales of folks at home.They clapped their hands;they screamed from time to time;they moved their heads in most expressive ways_their hands spoke even louder than their tongues_as they swept like a great Saharan windalong the winding beaten tracksbefore them, silent,...

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