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A Far Cry from Africa"A Far Cry from Africa" discusses the events of the Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya in the early 1950s. You can find a good summary broken down by lines on eNotes at the link provided below.
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A Far Cry from AfricaThe poem's title references the history of imperialism and colonization of Africa by other countries, particularly the British. "Between this Africa and the English tongue I love?Betray them...
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A Far Cry from AfricaFrom a postcolonial point of view, Walcott's poem brings out a condition that has been caused by the presence of the "master" over "the slave." In this colonial dialectic, the pain and suffering...
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A Far Cry from AfricaThe reference is to the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) between the Republican forces, which defended the country's democratically-elected socialist government, and the right-wing Fascist Falange...
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A Far Cry from AfricaWalcot finds a "brutish necessity" in nature that he compares to man's inhumanity to other men. Walcot writes "The gorilla wrestles with the superman." In other words, man's most primitive...
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A Far Cry from AfricaMeter, naturally, is the most dominant sound device in "A Far Cry From Africa." The poem maintains a normative meter of iambic pentameter, whose regularity—as befits its status as the primary meter...
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A Far Cry from AfricaPost- colonialism seeks to analyze literature from a point of view that takes into account the differences in cultural expression. As a literary approach, post- colonialism is steeped in the idea...
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A Far Cry from AfricaSeeing the tags you had indicated for your question, I have edited it to include the titles of the two literary pieces you tagged. The two works belong to different literary genres (novel/poetry)...
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A Far Cry from AfricaIn order to understand the theme of history in Pablo Neruda’s “The Way Spain Was” and Derek Walcott’s “A Far Cry from Africa”, we must learn a bit about both poets’ historical backgrounds. Pablo...