This question i based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (ed.)Selection of African Poetry and E.W. ...

Assessment: JAMB UTME - Literature In English - 1992 Subject: Literature In English

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This question i based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (ed.)Selection of African Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.

The poet in Sunset Sonata proposes

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The poem Sunset Sonata proposes defiance and protest. The poem is a reflection on the effects of colonialism and how it has disrupted the peaceful co-existence of the African people. The speaker is defiant and protests against the oppression and exploitation of his people by the colonizers. The poem suggests that the African people should stand up for themselves and resist the colonizers' attempts to subjugate them. The use of words like "freedom," "resistance," and "liberation" shows the poet's call for defiance and protest against colonialism.

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