Monthly Archives: April, 2021

Themes in Chibuike Onu’s A GOVERNMENT DRIVER ON HIS RETIREMENT

A prominent theme in Chibuike Onu’s A Government Driver on His Retirement is the destructive nature of uncontrolled joy and freedom. Other themes in the...

Poem: CAGED BIRD by Maya Angelou

A free bird leaps on the back of the wind and floats downstream till the current ends and dips his wing in the orange sun rays

Synecdoche and Metonymy: Know the Difference

Metonymy and Synecdoche are two similar figures of speech. Literature students often mistake one for the other. The reason for the mistake lies in...

Poem: BINSEY POPLARS (FELLED 1879) by G. M. Hopkins

My aspens dear, whose airy cages quelled, | Quelled or quenched in leaves the leaping sun,

Poem: THE GOOD-MORROW by John Donne

And now good morrow to our waking souls, | Which watch not one another out of fear;

Poem: BAT by D. H. Lawrence

At evening, sitting on this terrace, When the sun from the west, beyond Pisa, beyond the mountains of Carrara

Poem: JOURNEY OF THE MAGI by T. S. Eliot

A cold coming we had of it, | Just the worst time of the year | For a journey, and such a journey:

Poem: BLACK WOMAN by Leopold Sedar Senghor

Naked woman, black woman | Clothed with your colour which is life | with your form which is beauty!

Content Analysis of Chibuike Onu’s A GOVERNMENT DRIVER ON HIS RETIREMENT

Analysis In Nigeria where Chibuike Onu, the poet, comes from, the government civil service is highly sought. Only that it is hard to get yourself...

Poem: A GOVERNMENT DRIVER ON HIS RETIREMENT by Chibuike Onu

Many years on wheels | In faithful service to his fatherland | Today retires he home | And a celebration he holds

The Theme of Leadership in Niyi Osundare’s THE LEADER AND THE LED

The Leader and the Led by Niyi Osundare explores the idea of good leadership. The poem paints a picture of what an ideal leader...

Most Read