THEMES / THEME ANALYSIS The following are themes of Native Son. RACISM Native Son is an indictment of racism. Racism affects Bigger’s life at home, at the Daltons, and in… Read More »The themes and characterization of the novel
Chicago. Illinoi is largest city and the industrial center of the Midwest. Richard Wright’s family was one of thousands of southern black families that migrated to Chicago between 1916 and… Read More »THE SETTING OF NATIVE SON BY RICHARD WRIGHT
The novel Native Son begins in the Thomas apartment in 1930s Chicago, where Bigger, his sister Vera, his mother (Ma), and brother Buddy all live, in one room, together. Ma… Read More »The plot of Native Son by Richard Wright
‘The School Boy’ is a Romantic poem. It helps to foreground the focus of attention of the poet. The poem is the lamentation of a young boy who is not… Read More »THE SCHOOL BOY: WILLIAM BLAKE
’The proud king’ is a poem about the evil inherent in arrogance and pride, which is a thematic preoccupation that is present in many culture around the world. ‘The proud… Read More »THE PROUD KING BY WILLIAM MORRIS
A clear understanding of the poem requires that reference be made to Pandora’s box of gifts. Closly related to the Pandora’s box myth and also aiding the understanding of The… Read More »THE PULLEY: BY GEORGE HERBERT
This poem is said to have been written in 1889. The poet, Tennyson, wrote it after a serious illness at sea. No wonder the poem treats death as a main… Read More »CROSSING THE BAR BY ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
The poem talks about the experience of the poet on how to cope with modern trends. He found himself struggling for survival between the old and the new order .He… Read More »THE AVIL AND THE HAMMER. KOFI AWONOOR
The poet examines the transitional stages in man’s life. He tries to point out what man feels or knows at the time of his growth till he gets old. Also… Read More »THE PANIC OF GROWING OLDER BY LENRIE PETER
The poem has its background in the ten year civil war that ravaged the country of Sierra – Leone during which a lot of lives and properties were lost and… Read More »THE DINNING TABLE BY GBANABAM HALLOWELL
The poem is a reflection on the impossibility of living two different culture simultaneously. The two culture concerned here are African and European culture. The former is depicted as natural… Read More »Piano and Drums by Gabriel Okara
The poem is a metaphorical depiction of a nation as destroyer of the dreams and aspirations of her citizen. The nameless nation referred to as ‘the Land’,is likened to different… Read More »AMBUSH
CONTENT ANALYSIS. Birago Diop is a poet who is conscious of the continuing presence of the ancestors of the symbolic and meaningful expression of their experience which they have left… Read More »African Poetry; ‘Vanity’ Birago Diop