In Oswald Mtshali's 'Nightfall in Soweto', night
The diction of Femi Osofisan's Morountodun can be described as
This question is based on Literary Appreciation.
'Careened, These oily tears Dripping down the tears on your depressed face, Will one day be staunched, I swear! Ibiwari Ikiriko, Oily Tears
The tone of the poet is
'Lift not the painted veil which those who live call
life: though unreal shapes be pictured there,
And it but mimic all we would believe
With colours idly spread - behind, lurk fear,' P.B Shelley, Sonnet.
The stanza above is an example of a