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    15 African Poetic Analysis
    15 African Poetic Analysis
    15 African Poetic Analysis
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    15 African Poetic Analysis

    By Naija Poets

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    This contains a very helpful 15 african poetic analysis which is based on topics like
    (1) Ambush by Gbemisola Adeoti
    (2) Piano and Drums by Gabriel Okara
    (3) And many more curricular base poetry
    Anyone willing to sit for Literature-In-English examinations relating to WAEC, JAMB, NECO, IJAMB, etc will surely find this download very useful.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNaija Poets
    Release dateFeb 3, 2017
    ISBN9781386295167
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    15 African Poetic Analysis - Naija Poets

    15 African Poetic Analysis

    This many-in-one article should definitely be of usefulness to those aim to have a higher score in Literature-in-English examinations.

    (Analysis 1)

    Gbemisola Adeoti And Hard Lines

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    In this post, naijapoets.com tends to speak of the writing style of Gbemisola Adeoti, using the poem Hard Lines as a yardstick.

    It is now evident that Gbemisola Adeoti is a poet of justice. Most of his poems, not excluding Hard Lines, are always nailing the matter of injustice in the head.

    Lovely focus and good motivational spirit as a poet. Poets are missioned to better the lives of people through poetry and the style of Gbemisola Adeoti has been yielding positive attentions; most of his poems (Ambush, Hard Lines, etc) are very awesome.

    [Check The Poem Ambush by Gbemisola Adeoti]

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    No matter how perfect a poem can be, it will possess some shortcomings. Hard Lines, for instance, has a well planned first and second stanza which contained metaphor followed by simile followed by imagery:

    "Some lines are bitter pills Hard to swallow with laughter

    Like a tongue licking a weeping sore

    To douse embers of thirst

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    Some lines are moistened rock

    Hard on the tongue

    Like a breakfast of toad

    Spiced with roasted cockroaches Mixed with mucus and urine." (line 1 and 5 are metaphor, line 3 and 7 are simile, line 4, 8, 9)

    The third and the last stanzas were absolutely different. Didn’t follow the pattern of stanza 1 and 2. In an attempt to craft hard lines within the rest stanzas of the poem, Gbemisola Adeoti created fallacious lines:

    "...As lion’s fiery tales turn fairy tales In sporting grips of goats

    While elegies are sung with

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