Characters’ Analysis : African Poems

ManishaJitendra

BhagirathSubmitted to: Heenaba

Refugee Mother and Child: Chinua Achebe

Refugee Mother and Child

The Mystic Drum: Gabriel Okara

• The Outsider- Western Imperialism– Objective– Indifferent at the richness of the culture– Smiling– Spreading pollution, Industrialization

The Outsider’s Comparison with Eve

The Outsider’s Comparison with Okara’s Lady Love

"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."

New York: Leopold Sedar Senghor

• New York – A Character– First Impression: City of Skyscrapers, Long-legged

golden girls, blue metallic smile, sulphurous light, livid shafts

– Second Impression: No well or pasture, dead birds, no child’s laughter, legs and breast with no sweat, artificial heart, insomniac nights

– No values, heritage, tradition but success and competition

New York – A Character

• Solution: Unity of Black and White Blood