Breaths By Birago Diop

Listen more often to things rather than beings.Hear the fire's voice,Hear the voice of the water.In the wind hear the sobbing of the trees,It is our forefathers breathing.The dead are not gone for ever.They are in the paling shadows,And in the darkening shadows.The dead are not beneath the ground, They are in the rustling tree,In the murmuring wood,In the flowing water,In the still water,In the lonely place, in the crowd;The dead are not deadListen...

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Themes of Piano and Drums by Gabriel Okara

Gabriel Okara, the writer of "Piano and Drum" was born in Bayelsa state, Nigeria in 1921. A novelist and a poet; he was once a civil servant. His poem "Piano and Drums" was well beautified with imagery and symbolism.The themes of the poem can be divided into three: (1) Childhood reminiscence and its effect (2) Complexity of the present and future (3) Dilemma.Childhood reminiscence and its effectSince the poem is about the poet's experience with two...

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Fascination In The Poem Stanley Meets Mutesa

The Fascination:Fascination In The Poem Stanley Meet Mutesa by David RubadiriThe Poem:Such a time of it they had;The heat of the dayThe chill of the nightAnd the mosquitoes that followed.Such was the time andThey bound for a kingdom.The thin weary line of carriesWith tattered dirty rags to cover their...

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