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THEMES AND POETIC TECHNIQUES IN THE POEM

ClassNotes Team 3 MIN READUPDATED 5 JUL 2026

LITERATURE IN ENGLISH SSS2 Third TERM

WEEK SEVEN

THEMES AND POETIC TECHNIQUES IN THE POEM

CONTENT

REFERENCES

  • She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith.
  • Exam Reflection Literature- in-English by Sunday OlatejuFaniyi.
  • Exam Reflection Literature-in-English (Prose and Drama) by Sunday OlatejuFaniyi. 
  • The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole.

TOPIC: THEMES AND POETIC TECHNIQUES IN THE POEM

  1. Abandonment of traditionalways or values: The poem comments on the tendency of African educated elites and other Westernized Africans to abandon African wisdom, values and general traditional ways of life because many of these people have led Africans to believe that African ways of life is primitive and barbaric.
  2. Wisdom of the ancestors is invaluable: The poem presents ancestors as reservoir of sound teaching and…