“Season” – Wole Soyinka The poem “Season” written by Wole Soyinka makes use of various poetic devices and techniques. The poem is set in the time spent waiting between autumn and winter and is seen through the eyes of a corn garnerer. In the poem‚ Soyinka depicts the feeling of the corn garnerer and the fields he occupies. Primarily‚ this feeling is achieved in marvellous effect thanks to the excellent portrayal of the mood and the superb use of poetic devices such as assonance‚ imagery and rhythm
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Wole Soyinka was born on 13 July 1934 at Abeokuta‚ near Ibadan in western Nigeria. After preparatory university studies in 1954 at Government College in Ibadan‚ he continued at the University of Leeds‚ where‚ later‚ in 1973‚ he took his doctorate. During the six years spent in England‚ he was a dramaturgist at the Royal Court Theatre in London 1958-1959. In 1960‚ he was awarded a Rockefeller bursary and returned to Nigeria to study African drama. At the same time‚ he taught drama and literature at
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The Telephone Conversation by Wole Soyinka The Nigerian playwright Wole Soyinka (born 1935) was one of the few African writers to denounce the slogan of Negritude as a tool of autocracy. He also was the first black African to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Wole Soyinka was born July 13‚ 1934 in Abeokuta a village on the banks of the River Ogun in the western area of Nigeria. His mother was a Christian convert so devout that he nicknamed her "Wild Christian" and he father was the scholarly
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Wole Soyinka demonstrates the differences between two individuals‚ the speaker and the landlady of the apartment which he is trying to rent. Humanity has the awareness to recognize these differences and Soyinka uses the racism of the landlady to show her ignorance of the situation. We realize the differences between male and female‚ old and young‚ black and white‚ but never focus too strongly on them to cause conflict. The central conflict of this story is between the caller‚ the protagonist‚ and
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Telephone conversation by Wole Soyinka is about‚ as the title suggests‚ a conversation over the telephone between two people – a West African man and a British landlady. The former was looking for a place to live in London. He felt that the ‘price seemed reasonable’ and the ‘location indifferent’ in the sense that it was impartial. The landlady claimed that she ‘lived off premises’ possibly indicating that it was a source of income for her. The poem is in free verse and appears like a conversation
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The poem entitled ’’Abiku’’ is a foreign word that suggest a spiritual child‚who is coming and going from the world(reincarnating).From the title the title we get to know that ’Abi’ means to be born and ’Ku’ means to die‚this butresses that we are all born to die and it also shows the inevitability of death. In the first stanza we hear a(that of Abiku)boasting that no one can stop him from coming and going from the world.From the tone of d Abiku‚we get to know that he is addressing his suppose parent
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Analysis and Commentary of “Telephone Conversation” by Wole Soyinka This poem is about the perceptions‚ attitudes and problems between the black and white skinned people/races. In this short poem of a telephone conversation between a dark skinned West African and a British landlady‚ the writer‚ Wole Soyinka‚ effectively makes others aware of the prejudice and tantrums thrown by the whites to the blacks. This poem emphasises the racism and criticism of Whites against the Blacks. In this poem
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In his play‚ <u>Death and the King’s Horseman</u>‚ Wole Soyinka would have us examine every clash and conflict‚ save for the one involving culture. Certainly this may seem the most obvious part of the play‚ but we would do the general understanding of <u>Death</u> a disservice if we ignored one of the central conflicts in the play. Every element of the play is placed in terms of two extremes‚ and the cultures must be considered one of those pairs. Suicide is no exception to this examination; it must
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In ’Telephone Conversation’‚ the poet conveys his disappointment and anger about being discriminated by the Caucasian unfairly just because he is an African by portraying the telephone conversation between himself and the British landlady. The poem is in the form of free verse. It is because ’conversation’ isn’t something well-planned; instead‚ the speakers speak what they want during the conversation. Also‚ with the aid of end-stop lines and run-on lines‚ the outlook of the poem gives readers a
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once they were under religious control. The English utilized the brilliant ploy of employing Nigerians to spread Christianity to their own people. The Nigerians who compromised and promoted English concepts were rewarded for their deeds. For example Wole Soyinka’s family was rewarded by being given the security of a parsonage. However‚ this was actually given as a result of Essay’s contribution to the spread of English education‚ through his position as headmaster of the school. Education‚ therefore
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