"...Let the greying day grow,
...let the evening horns blow,
...let the melting mountains go...'

The repetition of these lines from Atukwei Okai's
"Sunset Sonata"

"Kwarshiorkor", "grave", "ravage", "wreck", "funeral", "piles" and fearful".

These words from J.P. Clarks "The Casualties" connote

The line 'Ask them why they idle there' in Kofi Awoonor's Song of Sorrow' is a reference to

"...Lying down in the melting snow.
There were times we regretted
The summer palaces on slopes, the terraces,
And the silken girls bringing sherbert."

The emotion evoked in this passage from "Journey of the Magi" is that of

"I came down the step with my pitcher
And must wait, must stand and wait, for there he
was at the trough before me."

These lines from "Snakes" suggests that the