Death in the Dawn (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Wole Soyinka
- First Published: 1967
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Africa or Africans, Accidents, Death or dying, Birds, Nigeria or Nigerians, Morning
The Poem
“Death in the Dawn” is a free-verse poem in seven stanzas and thirty-five lines of variable length. While it is in a sense a monologue, an address to the reader as a “traveller,” and a narrative account of life as a journey, its introspective conclusion about the self may best identify it as a lyric. The paradoxical title (death might be expected to take place in the evening) announces the contradictory concepts the poem will explore. Any concept implies its opposite, but in fact two deaths do occur during this dawn.
Wole Soyinka provides a prose...
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