Title: The Lonely Soul
Poet: Raphael Ernest Grail Armattoe
Literature: Ghanian Literature
Theme: The poem revolves around loneliness and being alone
Point of View: The poet used the first person point of view
Plot Summary:
At first the speaker talked about the woman he met, a woman just by herself, fooling herself just to conceal the pain she feels inside. The speaker also talked about a man who is also with sorrow, and just like the woman, living with pain and loneliness brought by having no one, being alone.
Introduction: The Lonely Soul is a Raphael Armattoe poem and is a Ghanian literature. Ghana is located in the western part of Africa. Though Ghana was colonized by many countries, resulting to a lot of languages and dialects, still …show more content…
The poem goes down from top to form a single stanza with no rhyme scheme unlike most early nineteen century African poems. Though most of the poem’s lines are under the iambic meter, the poem lies under the qualitative type of prosody in which it does not measure the number of syllables rather depends upon duration of syllables, which we can determine by amount of time used on pronunciation and is very common with free verse poems that consists of unmeasured lines. The poet inserted one example of simile and this can be seen in lines 11-12 wherein the fall of sorrow was compare, through the use of word ‘like’, with the fall down of arrows. The country roads mentioned in the poem symbolizes lonely paths. The poet also uses imagery wherein he used the lines “talking to herself” and “talking by herself” to convey the image of a woman alone. When it comes to the flow of the poem, the speaker was just simply narrating at first, talking about his experience in meeting a woman, then at the next part the speaker inserted an indirect moral on not judging others (lines 6-9). Moreover, the speaker also uses a man, who is because of being alone also live with so much sorrow and pain, in the poem. For me, by interpreting the text, I can say that the speaker just realized how miserable, lonely and down he is when he saw the woman talking to herself because of having no one in life, having no one to talked to, as the ‘Child’ in the 6th line is the speaker himself, then at that very moment he came up with the notion that he is already talking to himself, telling himself what’s with that woman and how lonely the woman is, that he is also like the woman he judged as lonely, loner, and alone. The speaker ended the poem with the realization that along the way he passes by he is also like the woman, that what he only has is his self,
Poet: Raphael Ernest Grail Armattoe
Literature: Ghanian Literature
Theme: The poem revolves around loneliness and being alone
Point of View: The poet used the first person point of view
Plot Summary:
At first the speaker talked about the woman he met, a woman just by herself, fooling herself just to conceal the pain she feels inside. The speaker also talked about a man who is also with sorrow, and just like the woman, living with pain and loneliness brought by having no one, being alone.
Introduction: The Lonely Soul is a Raphael Armattoe poem and is a Ghanian literature. Ghana is located in the western part of Africa. Though Ghana was colonized by many countries, resulting to a lot of languages and dialects, still …show more content…
The poem goes down from top to form a single stanza with no rhyme scheme unlike most early nineteen century African poems. Though most of the poem’s lines are under the iambic meter, the poem lies under the qualitative type of prosody in which it does not measure the number of syllables rather depends upon duration of syllables, which we can determine by amount of time used on pronunciation and is very common with free verse poems that consists of unmeasured lines. The poet inserted one example of simile and this can be seen in lines 11-12 wherein the fall of sorrow was compare, through the use of word ‘like’, with the fall down of arrows. The country roads mentioned in the poem symbolizes lonely paths. The poet also uses imagery wherein he used the lines “talking to herself” and “talking by herself” to convey the image of a woman alone. When it comes to the flow of the poem, the speaker was just simply narrating at first, talking about his experience in meeting a woman, then at the next part the speaker inserted an indirect moral on not judging others (lines 6-9). Moreover, the speaker also uses a man, who is because of being alone also live with so much sorrow and pain, in the poem. For me, by interpreting the text, I can say that the speaker just realized how miserable, lonely and down he is when he saw the woman talking to herself because of having no one in life, having no one to talked to, as the ‘Child’ in the 6th line is the speaker himself, then at that very moment he came up with the notion that he is already talking to himself, telling himself what’s with that woman and how lonely the woman is, that he is also like the woman he judged as lonely, loner, and alone. The speaker ended the poem with the realization that along the way he passes by he is also like the woman, that what he only has is his self,