Aristophanes’ “Lysistrata”, a novel written during a period of political and social upheaval has been denoted or attributed with a satirical arrangement as the play is centered upon the contrast or reversal in the roles played between the men and women...
Your hand is heavy, Night, upon my brow. I bear no heart mercuric like the clouds, to dare. Exacerbation from your subtle plough. Woman as a clam, on the sea’s cresent. I saw your jealous eye quench the sea’s Flouorescence, dance...
Once upon a time, son, they used to laugh with their hearts and laugh with their eyes: but now they only laugh with their teeth, while their ice-block-cold eyes search behind my shadow. There was a time indeed they used to...
Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; snug as a gun. Under my window, a clean rasping sound When the spade sinks into gravelly ground: My father, digging. I look down Till his straining rump among the flowerbeds ...
NEW TONGUE BY ELIZABETH KAMARA They speak in a new tongue And dance new dances Minds battered into new modes and shapes Their eyes revel in the wonder of the new Embraced and bound to hearts with impregnable chains...
LITERATURE IN ENGLISH QUESTION 1-10 Is based on “Stone” by Wilfred Wilson while 11-20 is based on Lord Byron’s “She walks in beauty” 1. Which figure of speech is most clearly illustrated in the line, “A woman, turned to stone”? A....
Stone Wilfred Wilson Gipson “And will you cut a stone for him, To set above his head? And will you cut a stone for him – A stone for him?” she said. Three days before, a splintered rock Had...
She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes; Thus mellowed to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies. One...
The use of Personification and onomatopoeia in “Night Fall in Soweto” Poetic language poses a great nature of clairvoyance by the said poet to an extent that a reading audience can foreshadow a sumptuous part of the poem. However bad language...
Allegory A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning. Allegory often takes the form of a story in which the characters represent moral qualities. The most famous example in English is John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, in which...