Johnson Adeniyi's Elegy For A Dying Culture

The Poem and Movie Comparison
Good morning/afternoon. For hundreds of years there have been many different types of entertainment ranging from poems, books, plays, television and movies, all using its own technics and text features to convey a message. This presentation will deconstruct two types of entertainment, poems and movies bring them together to compare. The deconstruction will describe and elaborate on the technics that the director and poet used to convey a similar message and or intention. In the poem Elegy for a Dying Culture written by Johnson Adeniyi, the message is the destruction of a culture. The aspects of weakness and corruption all come to a message that the white man is killing a culture; this message of a destroyed culture is also seen in …show more content…
A pessimistic tone and position for the audience is also in the verse “Stolen from us in broad daylight”. The imagery of stolen with broad daylight adds a tone to the destroyed culture message, usually something being stolen it would be at night, but the poet uses the image of broad daylight to say that the culture was taken without any resistance or concealment, this positions the audience to think that the poet is annoyed.
The second stanza of the poem shows the opinion of the poet “though not based on our geography. But it’s aimed at our philosophy” From the added attention of rhyme between geography and philosophy, symbolises that the poet believes that the invader may say there based on the geography, the land that the culture lives on, but what they really want is to take away their philosophy, their nature, reality and existence wiping them