University of Massachusetts Boston ScholarWorks at UMass Boston Africana Studies Faculty Publication Series Africana Studies 1-1-2011 ‘The Mystic Drum’: Critical Commentary on Gabriel Okara’s Love Lyrics Chukwuma Azuonye University of Massachusetts Boston‚ chukwuma.azuonye@umb.edu Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarworks.umb.edu/africana_faculty_pubs Part of the African Languages and Societies Commons‚ Comparative Literature Commons‚ and the English Language and
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undignified; it’s just human” (Byock‚ 2010). In the assigned movie Wit‚ the main role is of Vivian Bearing which is a college professor who teaches a course in English Poetry who spent numerous years transcribing and translating the poetry of John Donne‚ who was known as a master of metaphysical poets. She too is known for her vast knowledge of metaphysical poetry. She is a very bright and scholarly woman although her students view her as cold and unfriendly. At the age of 48 Vivian is diagnosed
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John Donne and Shakespeare John Donne and William Shakespeare both wrote a variety of poems that are both love poem but with very different content. This essay will compare two of their poems Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare and the ‘SUN RISING’ by John Donne. Flattery In ‘SUN RISING’ the poet exclaims that the sunbeams are nothing compared to the power of love‚ and everything the sun might see around the world pales in comparison to the beloved’s beauty and it is a characteristic of Petrarchan
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The opening statement of John Donnes Meditation IV sets a disposition for the whole article. ..Except God‚ Man is a diminutive to nothing (Donne 23) is saying man is bigger than the world; excluding the fact that God conquers and controls all. Man is in control of his own life‚ but God controls his fate. It is also stating that the world is nothing in comparison to man and is not as complex. Donnes numerous comparisons between human anatomy and nature shows how mans complexity overcomes the world
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matters reaching radical and unconventional highs. It is through his great variety of emotion and passion that Donne explores‚ arguably‚ his most consistent theme of love itself. “The Sunne Rising”‚ “The Ecstasy”‚ “A Valediction of Forbidding Mourning” and “Air and Angels” are four poems which contrast on various levels but still link on common ground in their ideas and techniques to which Donne uses to portray a passionate yet sometimes cynical outlook on love. Donne’s insight into the agony of love
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for the love to be real‚ it only needs to be felt on an emotional and spiritual level. It only needs to be true. There is nothing else that exemplifies such feelings and situations than poetry- words written that could never be said aloud. John Donne does so effectively in his poem “Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”. Valediction comes from the Latin verb valedicere‚ meaning to bid farewell‚ the context of the poem. Through beautiful language and structured form‚ he speaks of the troubles of love
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Donne seems to consciously ignore conventional measures of rhyme and meter and poetic beauty. His language is direct and like a conversation instead of a typical verse‚ in which his verse is full of dissonance. Critics of John Donne ’s "The Sun Rising" often note that the poem ’s displacement of the outside world in favor of two lovers ’ inner world serves to support its overall theme‚ which is the centrality of human love through a permanent physical universe (Otto). However‚ critics have stated
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The broken heart is a love poem .In this poem John Donne has a broken heart and he embodies his suffering in a various dramatic ways. As he wants to show us that the grief in love is much more than any other kinds of griefs in life. In the title of the poem John Donne depicts his heart as somethig material such as a broken mirror or glass. So he pointes out that when someone’s heart is broken ‚ it makes his life miserable and can not be able to fall in love any more. He also describes how
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As the perspicacious Pierre Berton once said‚ “Racism is a refuge for the ignorant. It seeks to divide and to destroy. It is the enemy of freedom‚ and deserves to be met head-on and stamped out.” Joanne Hyppolite‚ the author of the story “Dyaspora‚” faces racism first-hand as she grows up Haitian American. Using second-person point of view‚ she encourages the reader to put themselves in the author’s shoes. Consequently‚ the author’s repetitive use of the word “you” helps the reader to assimilate
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LANGUAGE ACQUISITION THEORIES Introduction During the past forty years there have been two major theories of language learning by children. But there are two major schools of thought known as‚ ’Behaviorists’ and ’Mentalists’. One school is of the view that language learning is entirely the product of experience and that our environment affects all of us. Others have suggested that everybody has an innate language learning mechanism. Let us discovery with the help of these two schools
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