'But such a tide as moving seems asleep. Too full for sound and foam.

When that which drew from out the boundless deep. Turns again home.'

The rhyme scheme in the excerpt above from Tennyson's crossing the Bar is

One of the themes of Awoonor's The Anvil and the Hammer is

'And my blood ripples, turns torrent.'

The line above in Okara's Piano and Drums depicts the persona as

According to Peter's The Panic of Growing Older at twenty a man is

The dominant literary device in Diop's Vanity is