Explain 'africa as a land of grieve'as a theme in the grieve lands of africa
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Explanation:
The poem mainly focuses on the 'grieved lands of Africa ', this is to remember the very many years of anguish and pain in the hand of colonizers, the Europeans majorly, he wrote that "tearful woes of ancient and modern slaves" . It recalls the tears of "impure dance" as the sea-going vehicles that transported African slaves bubbled up and down on the high seas. The times did not end with slavery but even within Africa during the time of colonialism. In line 25 -28 the "corpses thrown up by the atlantic" do not discourage the African consciousness. These are corpses of those slave that are being transport through Atlantic for the pupose of slavery. Not even the " putrid offering of incoherence/ and death" would make Africans fail to overcome their years of distress and pain.The poet also make us see how sorrowful the land called Africa was in line 6-16, where the poet motif of "the grieved lands of the African continent suffered from the "infamous sensation/of the stunning perfume of flower/crushed in the forest/by the wicked if iron and fire (modernization)". The so-called modernization in this stance should be seen from imperialist point view who comes to foreign lands (Africa in this situation) to steal aways the wealth or other mineral resources for their own good, then after leave the land of Africa "the grieved land". The reference to "lands" is an indication that the injustice to African was not at one spot but this is all over the continent, using imprisonment- "the jingling of the jailers key" and comes after the "stifled laughter and victorious voice of Laments" as well as "the unconscious brilliance of hidden sensation" just all deriving from "the grieved land of Africa."The last stanza of the poem shows how enduring the land in itself is and of how it tenacity has sustained it over the years, the line 37-42 has it that "they live" this line is very emphatic. The grieved lands of Africa are not dying; they live "because we are living". African are "imperishable particles/of the grieved lands of Africa."
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