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Any English Major Here? Need Help With A Poem by abifoluwa: 7:39am On Apr 06, 2013 |
After a war life catches desperately at passing hints of normalcy like vines entwining a hollow twig; its famished roots close on rubble and every piece of broken glass. Irritations we used to curse return to joyous tables like prodigals home from the city. . . . The meter man serving my maiden bill brought a friendly face to my circle of sullen strangers and me smiling gratefully to the door. After a war we clutch at watery scum pulsating on listless eddies of our spent deluge. . . . Convalescent dancers rising too soon to rejoin their circle dance our powerless feet intent as before but no longer adept contrive only half-remembered eccentric steps. After years of pressing death and dizzy last-hour reprieves we're glad to dump our fears and our perilous gains together in one shallow grave and flee the same rueful way we came straight home to haunted revelry. Written by achebe. who can give a helping hand on what this poem is about? not too good with poems. Thanks |
Re: Any English Major Here? Need Help With A Poem by Coldblooded(m): 9:52am On Apr 06, 2013 |
The poems tells of the aftermaths of war;how joyous they are to be back home,how wasteful n fearful those moments were,how they now bungled at what they knew how to do well b4 d war(he used dancing as an example). All as a result of war. I am not that good in literature but I luv poems. Hope this helps. Have fun! 1 Like |
Re: Any English Major Here? Need Help With A Poem by abifoluwa: 3:55pm On Apr 06, 2013 |
Thanks that helped a lot. not good in poems. i needed just eight lines to write about, thanks a whole lot. God blessed |
Re: Any English Major Here? Need Help With A Poem by luvmijeje(f): 5:12pm On Apr 06, 2013 |
It talks about the aftermath of the war at the warfront,obviously the Nigeria civil war. How norlmacy was never achieved due to the pain and loss caused by the war but life continues. It talks about things before the war that annoyed them such as NEPA men who bought bills who are now source of joy because they didn't believe they will get to see them again. It also talks on how they couldn't remember the dance steps due to the brutality of the war. Finally it talks on how they have to force themselves in defeat,in fear and in shame to go back home to lick their wounds. Wow so sad. Abeg I no major in anything o. 2 Likes |
Re: Any English Major Here? Need Help With A Poem by Coldblooded(m): 7:17pm On Apr 07, 2013 |
luvmijeje: It talks about the aftermath of the war at the warfront,obviously the Nigeria civil war. How norlmacy was never achieved due to the pain and loss caused by the war but life continues. It talks about things before the war that annoyed them such as NEPA men who bought bills who are now source of joy because they didn't believe they willyou killed it, I guess u are very good in literature. |
Re: Any English Major Here? Need Help With A Poem by luvmijeje(f): 8:32pm On Apr 07, 2013 |
Cold blooded: you killed it, I guess u are very good in literature.Thanks,I love and appreciate art. |
Re: Any English Major Here? Need Help With A Poem by Kaysalas(m): 9:23pm On Apr 07, 2013 |
"we're glad to dump our fears and our perilous gains together in one shallow grave and flee the same rueful way we came straight home to haunted revelry." this portion of the poem expresses the sum of the writer's mood in reminiscence and optimism hinted by 'fears...gains...in one shallow grave and flee(ing) home' to regain strenght by replenishment since a return has been made in the allusion to the story of the prodigal son 'after the war'. |
Re: Any English Major Here? Need Help With A Poem by abifoluwa: 7:39am On Apr 15, 2013 |
After years of pressing death and dizzy last-hour reprieves we're glad to dump our fears and our perilous gains together in one shallow grave and flee the same rueful way we came straight home to haunted revelry. can you guys help me with this lines more, like cold blooded did? sigh, i wish i was good with poems. i am just too horrible it makes my brain hot lol |
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