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Ayamlaykorn

Stepsse

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Oahray:
Stepsse

u ehn ....ao u

POEM TO STUDY FOR THE WEEK (African Poem)

NIGHT - Wole Soyinka

Your hand is heavy, Night, upon my brow,
I bear no heart mercuric like the clouds, to dare
Exacerbation from your subtle plough.

Woman as a clam, on the sea's crescent
I saw your jealous eye quench the sea's
Fluorescent, dance on the pulse incessant

Of the waves. And I stood, drained
Submitting like the sands, blood and brine
Coursing to the roots. Night, you rained

Serrated shadows through dank leaves
Till, bathed in warm suffusion of your dappled cells
Sensations pained me, faceless, silent as night thieves.

Hide me now, when night children haunt the earth
I must hear none! These misted calls will yet
Undo me; naked, unbidden, at Night's muted birth

oga laykorn..oya o

oga laykorn,saw,ray.....over to u bosses o

I must confess, at a glance I had no clue what Wole Soyinka was talking about. Especially after the first three lines.

Let's start from the first stanza.

Your hand is heavy, Night, upon my brow,
I bear no heart mercuric like the clouds, to dare
Exacerbation from your subtle plough.

Ayamlaykorn

i think he is trying to say thaat the night is nigh and he fears it...*your hands are heavy...it shows someone who is cold or feeling much cold

laykorn:
Let's start from the first stanza.

Your hand is heavy, Night, upon my brow,
I bear no heart mercuric like the clouds, to dare
Exacerbation from your subtle plough.

Ayamlaykorn

From a rapper's point of view....poets ain't good rhymers
Plough and brow do rhyme tho, but its monosyllabic

Your hand is heavy,
Night upon my brow- metaphor?
I think he meant the way night makes the eyes heavy from 'wanted sleep'. Agreed It looks like a metaphor.
Ayamlaykorn

Ayozainy, I see you

the mercuric lik the cloud means he is not as brave as the cloud that can stand any night or cold....he's simply trying to personify the cloud there

Yeah step,it looks like it. Let's eat some more.
What is exarcabation
Ayamlaykorn

Hmmm... Well, I think this stanza is basically about the effect the night has on him. Heavy on his brows (sleep inducing), and he is quite powerless to resist it.

laykorn:
Yeah step,it looks like it. Let's eat some more.
What is exarcabation
Ayamlaykorn

the effect of "night's subtle plow" (drowsiness I think) on him gets stronger (worse).

Oahray,good idea. Seems like it. Let's exarcabation and move to the next stanza. Who has a mobile dico?
Ayamlaykorn

laykorn:
Oahray,good idea. Seems like it. Let's exarcabation and move to the next stanza. Who has a mobile dico?
Ayamlaykorn

i do

exacerbation

noun (uncountable)
- An increase in the severity of something (such as a disease)
synonyms
- aggravation
antonyms
- amelioration

Check that word please.
Ayamlaykorn

Good!
Your hand is heavy, Night, upon my brow,
I bear no heart mercuric like the clouds, to dare
Exacerbation from your subtle plough.
.
Should we move to the next stanza? More perfect ideas......
Ayamlaykorn

next stanza pls

JigsawKillah:


From a rapper's point of view....poets ain't good rhymers
Plough and brow do rhyme tho, but its monosyllabic

lol. I think rap is just a variant of rhyming poetry, and all rappers potential poets.

Woman as a clam, on the sea's crescent
I saw your jealous eye quench the sea's
Fluorescent, dance on the pulse incessant

Ayamlaykorn

Yeah... Let's move on

laykorn:
Woman as a clam, on the sea's crescent
I saw your jealous eye quench the sea's
Fluorescent, dance on the pulse incessant

Ayamlaykorn

Let's see...

This Man's words sha
I better start getting my vocabs up

CLAM....Noun

A shellfish with two shells joined together,used s food

Woman as a clam...simile

Wow!

I have no idea why he even used 'fluorescent' as a noun.

The first line is vague to me. I think the other lines points to the dying of the light, and thus no reflection by the waves of the not-so-calm sea. It sounds like a sailor's point of view. But I doubt it. Might just be a complicated metaphor.

Ordinarily, the sea shimmers in the moonlight, unless the clouds are covering it. That makes sense in the light of the first stanza, where the clouds do not feel sleepy and retire for the day.