More terrible is love in Kyiv than Magnificent Venetian passions. Butterflies Fly light and maculate into bright tapers – Dead caterpillars’ brilliant wings aflame! And spring has lit the chestnuts’ candles! Cheap lipstick’s tender taste, The daring innocence of miniskirts, And these coiffures, that are not cut quite right – Yet image, memory, and signs…
Australia by Alec Derwent Hope A Nation of trees, drab green and desolate greyIn the field uniform of modern wars,Darkens her hills, those endless, outstretched pawsOf Sphinx demolished or stone lion worn away. They call her a young country, but they lie:She is the last of lands, the emptiest,A woman beyond her change of life,…
WALKING WITH SHADOWS BY JUDE DIBIA summarily tells the story of a young man’s named Adrian, quite accomplished in the real sense of the word but he has to confront his sexuality in both private and public spheres. Dibia in this novel, WALKING WITH SHADOWS, uses his literary charm of imaginary bring out a character…
That there’s no danger, that the word stays intact outside the person, by their side. That there’s no need to confuse one person with another, either one’s a social being – or a brute, the rest will leave the stage, it was a long night devoid of dragonflies and clouds, black – the other person,…
Ambassadors of poverty areThe corrupt masters of the economyWith their head abroadAnd anus at homePatriots in reverse orderDetermined merchants of lootsWho boost the economy of their colonial orderTo impoverish brothers and sisters at home Ambassadors of poverty areThe saviours of the peopleOffice loafers in the guise of workersBarons of incompetenceWith kleptomaniac fingersAnd suckling filamentsPosition occupants…
I danced away my first few hours of this new decade No heartache in this young renegade Drunk in this new brigade Spinning harder than the clap of the fireworks Burning brighter than the shadow that lurks No more heartache in these young renegades If not the whole era at least tonight is ours ]ust…
Background of the poet John Pepper Clark, an Ijaw of the Delta area of Nigeria, was born in 1935, and was educated in University of Ibadan, Nigeria, where he studied English Literature. He started and edited a poetry magazine, The Horn, while a student, and his early poems appeared in the magazine. He has worked…
BACKGROUND OF THE POET Wole Soyinka was born in 1934 at Abeokuta, Western Nigeria. Educated in Nigeria in University College, Ibadan, and at Leeds University in England, he graduated in English Language and Literature in 1958. Wole Soyinka is a versatile person and sings, and acts and produces plays. In addition he is a creative…
What is sarcasm? Sarcasm is a form of verbal irony in which a person says or writes something with the intention of conveying the opposite meaning or expressing contempt, ridicule, or mocking humor. It involves using words or phrases to express the opposite of what is actually meant, often to criticize or mock someone or…
Gnawing the highway’ s edges, its black mouth Hums quietly: ‘Home, come home …’ Behind its viscous breath the very word ‘growth’ Grows fungi, rot; White mottling its root. More dreaded Than canebreak, quarry ,or sun – shocked gully – bed Its horrors held Hemingway’s hero rooted To sure, clear shallows. It begins nothing….