BIOGRAPHY The Dining Table by Gbanabom Hallowell THE DINING TABLE Dinner tonight comes with gun wounds. Our desert tongues lick the vegetable blood—the pepper strong enough to push scorpions up our heads. Guests look into the oceans of bowls as vegetables die on their tongues. The table that gathers us is an island where guerillas… Continue reading The Dining Table by Gbanabom Hallowell – Analysis, themes, figures of speech, mood/tone, structure and diction
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CROSSING THE BAR -Themes, poetic Devices
THEMES The poem is an eye opener on the reality that surrounds death. It lays emphasizes on the following themes: Grief free farewell: the poetic personae has it emphasized in the poem that no one should feel bad, cry or mourn when he dies. This is because he is going to see his creator in… Continue reading CROSSING THE BAR -Themes, poetic Devices
Vanity – figures of speech, mood, tone and structure
POETIC DEVICE/FIGURES OF SPEECH Rhetorical question --- the poem itself is a rhetorical question. Each stanza harbours not less than two of this. E.g. – “who indeed will hear then with laughter?” what ear to our sobbing hearts” Metaphor – The word “beggar” is used to compare Africans to people who are impoverished and are… Continue reading Vanity – figures of speech, mood, tone and structure
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