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Friday 6 December 2019

Hunger - Jared Angira

The maize will grow
once when
long rains have come
and army worms
have gone
rations
will sink
with hunger
and the coiled intestines
will straighten

But

that day
shall find may
in the invalid home
with collarʼd fathers
at bedside mass
and others
in graves
with maggots
on palatable meal

and for the grave majesties
the maize cob
shall be
for a rusty funeral feast.

Jared Angira (born 1947)  Kenya
Source: Poems from East Africa edited by David Cook and David Rubadiri, East African Publishers, 1996

12 comments:

  1. Sorry, is there no analysis for this poem or what?

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  2. Is there no analysis for this poem or what?

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  3. Sorry where is the analysis for this poem

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  4. No analysis

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  5. To everyone who asks about an analysis - this is a personal poetry blog, not an academic site with analysis of the poems. If you need that you should look elsewhere - sorry.

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  6. Can we get a comprehensive analysis of the poem? Thanks

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  7. My personal thoughts on the Poem is about the independence from the colonial masters .long rains representing independence and the army worms describing the colonizers. Independence will alleviate people of poverty and there will be better loving conditions.However this freedom might take long and many will have suffered to some extent even death . Collar'd father's and bedside mass suggest the religion of the colonial master

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  8. Is there no stylistic devices of the poem

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  9. What are the themes of the poem

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  10. What is the subject matter of this poem

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  11. In which year did Jared Angira started writing poems?

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