How are the speaker's feelings conveyed to us throughout the poem? How do we know he is
stung by the landlady's insensitivity? Explain via literary devices and figurative language used in
the poem. (5)
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In "Telephone Conversation" by Wole Soyinka, as soon as the narrator hears the landlady ask how dark his skin is, he starts taking stock of the objects around him:
Button B. Button A. Stench
Of rancid breath of public hide-and-speak.
Red booth. Red pillar-box. Red double-tiered
Omnibus squelching tar. It was real!
Although he is used to racism, this is a new variety of color prejudice in which, apparently, the precise shade of his skin matters. The narrator is so...
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