This is a fully annotated PowerPoint on the poem Cockroaches, which forms part of the prescribed poetry for the IEB, . It contains full descriptions, you can teach from it as it is, or use it to study.
,Turn on the light
and helter-skelter
they scuttle But
to their dark shelters. who ordained
the crash-fall
Cut them off of sandals
on these
from their hideouts
shy creatures?
block
their many approaches Or
and see cockroaches is it their love
in hopeless flurry of darkness
holds them suspect?
and helpless worry.
,MAURI YAMBO
(1947 - )
•Prof. Mauri Yambo is a Kenyan, by birth. He is married to Joan, with child
granddaughter. He was born in Nairobi in AD 1947, in the last millennium.
first degree (BA Hons in Sociology and Political Science) in 1972, from the
Es Salaam, in neighboring Tanzania. He obtained an MA degree in Sociolo
University of Nairobi (UoN) in 1974 and graduated in 1980 with a PhD deg
Sociology from the University of Illinois (at Urbana-Champaign), USA.
•He joined the Department of Sociology, University of Nairobi, as a lecture
He lectured there (at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels), d
supervised, and published until 2017 – in-between serving as Department
appointee of the University’s Vice-Chancellor. He was also elected by his 1
peers as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and served for two terms.
•It was the largest Faculty at the UoN by student numbers. Among the hig
tenure as Dean was the successful launch of the Module II certificate, dipl
programs across the Faculty’s eleven Departments and sub-Departments.
the procurement, for the first time, of a desktop computer for each Depar
the Faculty; and established the Faculty’s first computer lab for students.
•Prof. Yambo continues to write and is a regular blogger at mauriyambo.b
creative writing-and-publishing endeavors have now resumed.
, Title
Cockroaches
Definition: scavenging insects that resembles a beetle, having long antennae and legs and typically a b
flattened body.
Purpose: Prompts us to reconsider our relationship with cockroaches, as well as our behaviour and attitude
toward them.
, An abrupt opening that creates tension because something is about to be revealed. This can be
interpreted as either an instruction or a description of events. This implies that the speaker is
decisive and certain of what will be discovered.
Exact rhym
Turn on the light Skelter and s
Purpose – emphas
of the verse and
and helter-skelter frantic, hurried sc
In disorderly haste or confusion the insects as they
shelter.
they scuttle
Scurry, scramble/ flee, to move quickly, with
The cockroaches small, short steps, especially in order to escape
Alliteration of ‘s’= to their dark shelters.
Sibilance - creates the
Most cockroach species prefer to hide and breed in dark, moist areas. Cockroaches ar
sound effect of the insects
nocturnal because they provide food for many predators. They prefer to spend the da
scattering and scurrying hiding in dark, hidden places and then foraging for food at night. Dark shelters are
across the floor. associated with safety for them.
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