Hyperbole is a figure of speech in which the poet uses exaggeration to emphasize a point or idea. By amplifying a specific aspect or situation, the poet conveys a powerful message that goes beyond the literal meaning of the words. In hyperbole poetry, the world becomes a playground for unlimited possibilities, where the ordinary transforms…
What is Internal Rhyme? Internal rhyme, sometimes referred to as middle rhyme or embedded rhyme, is a poetry device in which rhymes occur between words that are in the same line or lines that are next to each other. These rhyming words can appear anywhere in the line, whether it be at the beginning, middle,…
To visualize what you can’t see: That’s the paradoxical pleasure of the mind. In the afterbirth of seeing, Death of imagination. To dally on the brink of reality: That’s the snug of life. In the capitulation of the summit, Paradoxical disappointment. Now is the legend beyond Become the cliche of the elements. Shall the synthetic…
The stars have departed, the sky in monocle surveys the worldunder The stars have departed, and I – where am I? Stretch, stretch, O antennae, to clutch at this hour, fulfilling each moment in a broken monody.
They say the guinea-fowl lays her treasureWhere only she can find it.Akosua ‘Nowa is a gunea-fowl:Go tell her, red ant upon the tree. I met Akosua ‘Nowa this morning;I greeted: Akosua, how is your treasure?She looked me slowly up and down,She sneered: The man is not yet here who’ll find it! Akosua ‘Nowa has touched…
Background of the poet Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali, (born 1940, Vryheid, Natal, South Africa), South African poet who wrote in English and Zulu and whose work drew deeply upon the immediate experience of life in the Johannesburg township of Soweto. Mtshali worked as a messenger before his first collection of poems, Sounds of a Cowhide Drum (1971), won…
Definition of rhyming scheme in poetry: A rhyming scheme, also known as a rhyme scheme, is the pattern of rhymes used in a poem or song. It represents the sequence in which the lines rhyme with each other. Rhymes occur when words have similar ending sounds, usually at the end of lines. Rhyming schemes are…
My new phone is “smart.” I guess that I’m not.Amazing what all this here smart phone has got.TV and Weather and Internet, too.There’s just no limits to what it can do.Check my blood pressure and my temperatureWithout even probing all my apertures.I now know the time in Paris or Greece.I can track the migration of…
Awake, thou sleeping heart! Awake, and kiss The love – lorn brow Of this ebon lass, Dear Africa, Whose virgin charms Ensnare the love-lit hearts Of venturing youth From other lands Awake, sweet Africa Demand thy love, Thou sleeping heart! When the all-summer sun Paints the leafy boughs With golden rays, Know then, thou sleeping…
So in this tilted alleyway that roll in debris to the sea I kick my way among the wealth of fish smells, fish bones, to my father’s home. Around me, children’s feet still walk to school with swinging bag and nothing more. No face, no feature scrawled upon the whirling disc the needle gnawing into…