Analysis in a Gabriel okara any three poem

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Name – Dhiman Nisha A.

 Roll No – 19

 Year - 2014-2016

 Paper- African Literature

 Study – M.A                 

Sem- 4

 Topic – Analysis in a Gabriel okara any   three  poem

Guided by-Heenaba zala

Submitted to – Department of English Maharaja Krishnakumar sinhji Bhavnagar University

About author

          

Gabriel Okara 

He was born 24 April 1921 Nigerian Poet and novelist. Gabriel Okara is one of the most significant and serious early Nigerian poets. He was educated at Government College or his study at Northwestern University in 1949. He also look at the traumatic effect that colonization and de-colonization can have on the self and a one’s sense of personal  identity Okara has written many poem like..... 

o “Once upon a time”

o “New York”

o “Were I to choose”

o “Telephone Conversation”

o “Refugee Mother”

o “Mystic Drum”

          Here we are concerned with his 3 poems as enlisted under.

                 Mystic Drum

                                                     

    The drum in African poetry generally stands for the spiritual pulse of African life. The mystic Drum is okara’s love lyric. “The Mystic Drum” is an African poem or okara goes back to his roots in culture, history, religion and folklore. By comparison to the way of zone as manifested in the experience of Zen master Chin Yuan-Asian this pattern was an emotional and comprehensive of the way. The poem expresses the modernity dictum:

 ‘A poem should not mean, but be’

                The drum has mythical significant. The ritual of the Drum and the beating of the drum with the outer world of nature.  By keeping our passions under strict control including the prudent decision to ‘pack’ the ‘mystic drum’ of our innocence and evanescence making sure. Okara mentions that the mystic drum is essentially a have poem:

               “This was a lady I loved. And she coyly was not responding directly, but I adored her. Her demeanor seemed to mask her true feelings; at a distance, she seemed adoring, however, on coming closer, she was, after all, not what she seemed.”

                 The poet asserts that first as the drum beat inside him fishes danced in the rivers man and women danced on the land to the rhythm of drum. First as the drum beat inside him, fishes danced in the rivers and men and women danced on the land to the rhythm of the drum.  The drum still continued to beat rippling the air with quickened tempo compelling the dead to dance and sing with their shadows. Drum is the   powerful in mystic and that it even the dead alive.

“Aching for an ideal Nigerian State of harmony”

                             The outsider stands for Western Imperialism like Eastern, non-Western, alien and therefore,

‘incomprehensible for their own good’as ‘The Other’.  

                   The African culture naturally is the drum invokes the sun. Moon, river, gods and the trees began to dance.

            The finally gets bridged between humanity and nature, the animal and human world, the hydrosphere and that fishes turned men, and men became fishes. The term ’smoke’ is also suggestive of the pollution caused by industrialization, and also the clouding of morals.

   ‘Belching darkness’

             Eventually she intrudes and tries to behave their spiritual life the leaves around her waist very much suggestive of eve who adorned the same after losing her innocence. The ‘belching darkness” alludes to the futility and hollowness of the imposed existence. The red streams are reaches the womb Africa. First only has an objective role standing behind a tree. Okara’s poems generally refer to the tribe and he is currently imprisoned in the present generation and the crisis of identity of generation. This Eve turns out to be the eve of Nigerian damnation.

           Were I to Choose

                     

 “When Adam broke the stone and red streams raged down to gather to gather in the womb, an angel calmed the storm”

          Gabriel Okara, a Nigerian poet and he often utilizes ‘transliteration’ and his poems regional, yet universal. Adam toiling in the soil can be compared to the Negros working in the soil and Red stream are symbolic of the way. The poet is multi – lingual and the medium of his instruction.   

           In this poem Gabriel Okara wants to free himself from the imprisonment of his dark ‘halo that is generally considered as ‘blessed. God despised the very fact or structure and his world has deteriorated to a ‘world of bones’. The poet likens his predicament with mingling with dust during the Nigeria. The colonial period has made the poet an amalg European and African Cultures, The tower of Babel symbolizes unity.

              Once Upon a Time

                           

                         

 Okara examines the contrast between the Modern or African culture. Once Upon a Time is a poem consisting of 7 stanzas each containing between four and eight lines. Poets deal with the theme of Negritude. The poem was written to outline the fake personalities of many people or innocent nature.

               Once Upon Time was written as a concept of Father or son.   Colonization Negritude worships anything African and use scintillating rhythms. The poet further says that now they only laugh with their teeth, while their ice-back cold eyes search behind his shadow’ Famous line…

 

”They used to shake hands with their  heart”

            They refers to western people who are white also this description in the poem gives the impression of genuine emotion given off by the people. There will ‘Be no more trice’ ‘for then I find doors shut on me’.

              The second stanza this shows that again the people are fake and seem to be using the man to see what they can get. 

         “Feet at home come again”

                      

                 Third stanza are Okara give a voice to the western society or shows that he is not used to formality, When people say come again they might just be polite.     

              In stanza four- there is the adaptations and solutions that the man has found to counter the problems. It begins by saving that the man has ’learned many things’ or focused on how people tend to change their facial expressions for different occasions.

         The next stanza he deals with the fake attributes to go along with the fake looks. There are no true emotions, feelings and not his heart.

         In six or seven he asks the ‘son’ almost pleads with him to ‘show me, son how to laugh; show me how I used to laugh and smile’. He is having the conversation with that teach him all the good habits he has lost and teach him to have true emotions.

Conclusion

               All poets are uses this poem to convey his feelings, traditional African culture against western influences. Red are symbolically and the refrain reminds us again and again, that this Eve turns out to be the eve of Nigerian damnation.


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