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'I cannot blind myself
to putrefying carcasses in the market place
pulling giant vultures
from the sky.
Odia Ofeimun, 'How Can I Sing?
The tone of the lines above is one of
This question is based on Literary Principles.
The madman has entered our house with violence
Defiling our sacred grounds
Claiming the single truth of the universe
Bending down our high priests with iron,'
Mazizi Kunene, 'Progress'
The imagery of the lines above captures the idea of
This question is based on Literary Principles.
'BEHOLD her, single in the field,
Yon solitary Highland Lass!
Reaping and singing by herself;
Stop here, or gently pass!
Alone she cuts and blinds the grain,
And sings a melancholy strain;
O listen! for the Vale profound
Is overflowing with the sound.'
The rhyming scheme in the first stanza of 'The Solitary Reaper' above is
This question is based on Ola Rotimi's Ovonramwen Nogbaisi.
OBASEKI [from the auditorium]. For the peace of the land, obey him - Benin has had enough trouble!
[Roupe11 turns, feigning departure.]
CHIEF EZOMO [ urgently kneels before Ovonramwen]. Pray, my lord, do nothing to provoke him again!
IYASE [fervently beseeching] . Benin... think of Benin!
This dialogue became necessary because of Ovonramwem's
This question is based on Ola Rotimi's Ovonramwen Nogbaisi.
'...Then, let her take another husband from among her own people. A woman without a man is like rich farm soil without the feel of roots.
beautiful woman without a man is a crab-over-protected by shells: selfish...'
This statement in the play refers to the
