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Published Poet. ‘Love Cycle’ by Chinua Achebe portrays the sun’s effect on Earth (and vice versa) as a hardly romantic relationship. The poem describes the couple: the sun, an angry male, and the earth, a tolerant female. Achebe uses personification and symbolism throughout the poem to evoke vivid imagery.
- Female
- January 28, 2003
- Poetry Analyst
Mar 24, 2019 · Achebe emphasizes one proverb in particular to describe the political corruption in which Nanga participates. After a local merchant, Josiah, steals a blind beggar’s stick to make his customers (according to a figurative twist of reasoning) blindly purchase whatever he sells, the public reacts indignantly with the proverb: “He has taken away enough for the owner to notice.”
Analysis of Key events in Things Fall Apart. Okonkwo throws Amalinze the Cat and establishes himself as a man of talent and strength. Okonkwo comes to care for Ikemefuna, the gesture marking his status as one of the leading men of the community. Okonkwo participates in the killing of Ikemefuna, demonstrating his fear of being seen as weak.
About Lee-James Bovey. Lee-James, a.k.a. LJ, is an English school teacher that has been a Poem Analysis team member ever since November 2015, providing critical analysis of poems from the past and present. Nowadays, he helps manage the team and the website. 'Vultures' by the Nigerian poet Chinua Achebe is a dark and somber piece that focuses on ...
- Male
- Poetry Analyst And Editor
Things Fall Apart is the first novel by the Nigerian author Chinua Achebe. It portrays the life of Okonkwo, a traditional influential leader of the fictional Igbo clan, Umuofia. He is a feared warrior and a local wrestling champion who opposed the European colonialism and Christian missionaries. An early modernist novel, it received positive ...
- Chinua Achebe
- 1958
Chinua Achebe (ah-CHAY-bay) is a writer who has made important contributions in every literary genre. He is known primarily for his first novel, Things Fall Apart (1959). His other novels include ...
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essay, suggested that their role as writers in their societies is educative rather than purely artistic2. Thus the purpose of this paper is to criticize, from a social science perspective, the portrayal of women in the novels of Chinua Achebe, one of Africa's best known novelists. Anglophone African writers have always included women in their ...
