{"id":2412,"date":"2023-10-02T14:31:21","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T14:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/ecole9ja\/?p=2412"},"modified":"2023-10-02T14:34:19","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T14:34:19","slug":"week-4-ss1-second-term-literature-in-english-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/posts\/week-4-ss1-second-term-literature-in-english-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 4 – SS1 Second Term Literature in English Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0WEEK FOUR
\n<\/strong>TPOIC: THE DINNING TABLE (GBANABOM HALLOWELL)
\n<\/strong>ABOUT THE POET
\n<\/strong>He is a sierra Leonia writer he has produced many wor, to develop African literature. A dinning table is from the collection of his poems.
\nThe Poem
\n<\/strong>Dinner tonight come with
\nGun wounds. Our desert
\nTongues lick the vegetable
\nBlood the pepper
\nStrong enough to push scorpions
\nUp our heads. Guests
\nLook into the oceans of bowls
\nAs vegetables die on their tongues.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The table
\n<\/strong>That gather us is an island where guerrillas
\nWalk the land while crocodiles
\nSurf. Children from alpha beta with empty palms dine
\nWith us; switchblades in their eyes,
\nSilence in their voices, when the playground
\nIs emptied of children’s toys
\nWho needs roadblocks? when the hour
\nTo drink from the cup of life ticks
\nCholera breaks its spell on cracked lips<\/p>\n

\u00a0Under the spilt
\nMilk of the moon, I promise
\nTo be a revolutionary, but my Nile, even
\nWithout tributaries comes lazy
\nUpon its own Nile. On this
\nNight reserved for lovers of fire. I’m
\nFull with the catch of gun wounds, and my BOOTS
\nHave suddenly become too reluctant to walk me.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Analysis
\n<\/strong>The speaker likens their dinner to a deep gun wound sustained in the battle field. The pain of the injury is compared to a dry tongue as the anguish causes slivia to dry in the tongue just like a desert which has been emptied of water. The agony resulting from the owund forces him to loose consciousness. Even the non participants are overwhelmed with the devasted effect of the bullet. Hence their own tongue are equally dry of saliva.
\nThe speaker describes the dinning table as a war theatre where soldiers fight on land while the naval warfare takes over the sea. Hence, “The table that gathers us is an island where guerrillas walk the land while crocodiles surf”.
\nThus it is a warfare that is fought both on land and sea. This war has already begun to claim its casualties. The innocent children are not left out of the devastation. They helplessly face the wars situation in tiers and silence.
\n“Children from Alphabeta with palms dine with switch blades in their eyes. Silence in their voices”
\n<\/strong>The war denies them of the toy and happiness in their usual play ground in joyous mood. Even the availability of instrument of play has become a taboo to demand for. Children toys and play ground have become unnecessary luxury and an inhabitation to say the list. This explains the rhetoric questions “who needs road block”<\/strong>.
\nAs the fighting fiercely rages the unhealthy atmosphere. The filthy condition and the environmental degradation, or pollution results in outbreak of diseases such as cholera and Kwashiorkor. This takes its tolls on the emaciated body structure.
\nIn the worsening war situation, the speaker is determined to carry on the liberation struggle “revolution” but the injury sustained in the battle weakens his bones and nerves. He laments that the gun wound has rendered him ineffective or useless in a night where brilliant warriors are called upon to demonstrate their military power. And that the leg has become heavy to enable him fight like a truly wounded soldier.
\nTHEME
\nWar destroys, devastate causes anguish to people. It does not discriminates, as it causes the participants to get maim, sustain injury so does it cause non participants to suffer anguish, despair and painful memory. The children are not equally spared. The war, deny them of their childhood joy and play. It inflicts injury on them and can lead to outbreak of diseases like cholera and even death. The wounded may be maimed for thereby putting them in perpetual agony. <\/p>\n

\u00a0Assignment
\nRhetorical Question
\n“When the playground is emptied of children’s toys\/who needs roadblocks?”
\n<\/strong>
\n\u00a0
\n\t\t\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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