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NON AFRICA POETRY. SHALL I COMPARE THEE TO A SUMMER DAY, BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough… Read More »NON AFRICA POETRY. SHALL I COMPARE THEE TO A SUMMER DAY
” Birches ” is a poem by American poet Robert Frost (1874-1963). It was collected in Frost’s third collection of poetry Mountain Interval that was published in 1916. Consisting of… Read More »NON AFRICA POETRY: BIRCHES, CONTENT ANALYSIS AND POETIC DEVICES
Style and Structure Goldsmith’s style is wry, witty, and simple but graceful. From beginning to end, the play is both entertaining and easy to understand, presenting few words and idioms… Read More »THE STYLE AND DRAMATIC TECHNIQUE OF THE PLAY (SHE STOOP’S TO CONQUER BY OLIVER GOLDSMITHS)
Themes Class Bias Until Kate teaches him a lesson, Marlow responds to women solely on the basis of their status in society. He looks down on women of the lower… Read More »SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER: THE THEMES OF THE PLAY
Setting Most of the action takes place in the Hardcastle mansion in the English countryside, about sixty miles from London. The mansion is an old but comfortable dwelling that resembles… Read More »SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER: CHARACTERIZATION OF THE PLAY
Act 5 Plot Summary Sir Charles Marlow after arrival, shares a hearty laugh with Hastings over Marlow’s confusion. Marlow, besides apologising, declares his reluctance in forming any connection with Kate… Read More »SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER STUDIES AND ANALYSIS OF ACT FIVE
Act 3 Plot Summary Both Mr. Hardcastle and Kate seem confused with their experiences with Marlow. Mr. Hardcastle proclaims him to be an impudent fellow, while Kate voices her utter… Read More »SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER STUDIES AND ANALYSIS OF ACT THREE AND FOUR
The play opens in its primary setting, a chamber in the “old- fashioned” country house of Mr Hardcastle . Mr and Mrs. Hardcastle enter amid a pleasant argument. Mrs Hardcastle… Read More »She Stoops to Conquer Summary and Analysis of Scene One
One of the eighteenth- century’s most enduring comedies, She Stoops to Conquer takes a comedic, often farcical, look at the behavior and marital expectations of the upper classes in England… Read More »SHE STOOD TO CONQUER
Allegory Definition: An allegory is a symbolism device where the meaning of a greater, often abstract, concept is conveyed with the aid of a more corporeal object or idea being… Read More »REVISION: LITERARY DEVICES
Williams Blake was born on the 28th November 1757 in London where he remained for most of his life. He was educated at home by his mother until 1767 when… Read More »THE SCHOOL BOY BY WILLIAMS BLAKES
PULLEY ABOUT THE AUTHOR George Herbert (1593-1633) like Donne had both a political career (as public orator at Cambridge University and as a Member of Parliament, and religious career as… Read More »NON-AFRICAN POETRY
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Oliver goldsmith is an Irishman that was born to rev. goldsmith in 1728 at Pallas. The goldsmiths appeared not interested to worldly matters. He lives in solitude.… Read More »SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER
OTHELLO The play is in chronological order, one event succeeds, the order. It opens with Lago a soldier under the command of Othello. He is arguing with Roderigo a wealthy… Read More »NON – AFRICAN DRAMA – OTHELLO By Shakespare
Written by Kofi Awoonor Kofi Awoonor was born at Wheta, near Keta in the Volta Region of Ghana, of a Togolese mother and a Sierra Leonean Father. He was educated… Read More »THE ANVIL AND THE HAMMER
ABOUT THE POET He is a Sierra Leonia writer who has produced many works, to develop African literature. A dinning table is from the collection of his poems. The Poem… Read More »THE DINNING TABLE (GBANABOM HALLOWELL)
GABRIEL IMOMOTINE OBAINBAING OKARA: was born in 1921 in the ijaw area of the delta region of Nigeria. After hi secondary education in, Nigeria, he developed himself, by private reading… Read More »AFRICAN PEOTRY
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Raymond Caleb Ayodele Charley was born on 27th March 1948. He schooled in Sierra Leone’s capital of Freetown and onwards in Leads University London. He studied theatre… Read More »THE BLOOD OF A STRANGER
HARVEST OF CORRUPTION ABOUT THE AUTHOR Frank Ogodo Ogbeche is from Yala Area of Cross River State. He attended Awori-Ajeromi Grammar School, Agboju in Lagos and the Federal school of… Read More »INTRODUCTION TO AFRICA DRAMA – HARVEST OF CORRUPTION
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