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QUESTION 1: POETRY
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, QUESTION 1: POETRY
Write a carefully-worded essay of 1000 – 1200 words
(approximately 2 to 3 typed pages) in length in which you analyse
how the poet uses diction, particularly metaphors, poetic
techniques, and any other features of language to express a
mixture of frustration, outrage, disappointment, hopelessness,
and sadness, at the forced migration of educated people from
their land after political independence. As he laments the
disastrous state of affairs in his country, the poet turns to
inanimate objects like rocks, rivers, shelves, even ghosts, for
answers. His use of personification suggests his loss of
confidence in some of his compatriots and expresses how his
country has dashed the hopes of its people, especially
professionals like university professors.
The poem “Farewell” by E. E. Sule captures a painful and sad commentary on
Nigeria in the post-independence, focusing on the Nigerian educated elites and their
forced migration. To capture this feeling the poet uses several poetic devices such
as diction, metaphors, personification, and other poetic techniques. The emotions
the poet portrays include frustration, anger, disappointment, hopelessness, and
sadness. These emotions are captured in the image of betrayed intellectuals leaving
their home- country, a scenario portrayed with both bitter irony and sorrow.
The poem starts with the vivid description ‘Tight jinxed professors gazing at the
immensity of nothing!’ Such phrasing also reveals the despair of the poem’s heroes:
the word ‘jinxed’ is usually characteristic of the outcasts, the cursed people. The
professors which signify the ‘educated’ are illustrated as helpless with their gaze
directed towards the hopeless future, depicted by the empty outlook and the
country’s dilemma. The phrase “immensity of nothing” is a metaphor that gives one a
feeling of the hopelessness and lack of direction that they are confronted with.
In the second line, "Behold a multitude of books speeding away in
escape," the poet uses personification to depict books, symbols of
knowledge and learning, fleeing the country. This image suggests that not
only are the educated individuals leaving, but also the very essence of
intellectualism and scholarly pursuit. The "pens swagger in hollowness,
prostitute with cheap sheets" continues this theme, with "pens"
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