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
FACELESS – theme, techniques
FACELESS – THEMES, TECHNIQUES Theme of superstition In the prose, the characters believed that certain spiritual phenomena affects the lives of people. Maa Tsuru is believed to have been cursed by her mother to suffer in life. She herself believed this including her husband and mother-in-law. More so, Onko, the character who raped Baby-T, is… Continue reading FACELESS – theme, techniques
Blood of a Stranger – THEMES, DRAMATIC TECHNIQUES USED IN THE PLAY
Blood of a Stranger - THEMES, DRAMATIC TECHNIQUES USED IN THE PLAY THEMES Religious evil – This is evident in Soko’s character of lying to the whole village that the gods spoke to him about the coming of a stranger. Likewise, the use of humans for sacrifice. Substance of abuse – The drama also exhibits… Continue reading Blood of a Stranger – THEMES, DRAMATIC TECHNIQUES USED IN THE PLAY
Vanity – Themes
THEMES Loss of value – The poem portrays the high rate of decadence in African cultural value which is being taken over by that of America and the western world. Backwardness – The backwardness in politics and administration, education, health and economy of Africa is bitterly expressed in the poem by the poetic persona when… Continue reading Vanity – Themes
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