'...Sir, nose-painting, sleep and urine.Lechery,
Sir, it provokes:it provokes the
desire, but it takes away the performance.'

Based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth, the statement above can best be described as

The word which when applied describes the posture of the speaker in "The Fence" is

"The drum is silenced in mid-throb;
the flute is flung away;
and ears strain to master the malediction
of the thunder."

These lines from "For Christopher Okigbo" shows that the main occurrence in the poem is

"...He who sharpened the edge of hearts...."

In Kunene's To The Soldier "Hero" is

The pauper in Richard Ntiru's poem of that title is