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READING AND CONTENT ANALYSIS OF AFRICAN POETRY- “The Dining Table” by Elvan GbanabonHallowel.

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LITERATURE IN ENGLISH SSS2 SECOND TERM

WEEK EIGHT

READING AND CONTENT ANALYSIS OF AFRICAN POETRY- “The Dining Table” by Elvan GbanabonHallowel.

CONTENT

REFERENCES

  1. Exam Reflection Literature- in-English by Sunday Olateju Faniyi.
  2. Exam Reflection Literature-in-English (Prose and Drama) by Sunday Olateju Faniyi. 
  3. Native Son by Richard Wright.

TOPIC: READING AND CONTENT ANALYSIS OF AFRICAN POETRY- “The Dining Table” by Elvan GbanabonHallowel.

Content Analysis

The poet persona in the poem, “The Dining Table,” x-rays the gory experiences of the Sierra Leoneans during a decade long civil war of 1991 to 2002. For a country as Sierra Leone, the effects of the fallout which grew in a war are unimaginable as manslaughter became a part of their society. The failure on the part…