{"id":24066,"date":"2023-11-13T22:21:24","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T22:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ethiopia\/all-news\/poetry-students-make-the-most-of-metaphors"},"modified":"2023-11-13T23:25:46","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T23:25:46","slug":"poetry-students-make-the-most-of-metaphors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ethiopia\/all-news\/poetry-students-make-the-most-of-metaphors","title":{"rendered":"Poetry students make the most of metaphors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Ethiopia. <\/strong><\/span>This book is divided into five parts embracive of each school vacation from schools ranging from Nabisunsa Girls\u2019<\/p>\n

Secondary School to King\u2019s College Budo, through the years of 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020.<\/p>\n

It is structured around a prologue, preamble, monologues and an epilogue. Through this, it never proclaims its tigritude. Instead, it pounces: \u201cInvisible Remorse\u201d by Tracey Ahumuza A.K.A \u2018Nkubito\u2019, 2016 S6 Vac, King\u2019s College, Budo: \u201cI reach out to hold you But you cringe and shrink<\/p>\n

Away from me<\/p>\n

Away from us<\/p>\n

And I think that\u2019s when<\/p>\n

I repeat \u2018To fade\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018To fade\u2019 \u2013not because I\u2019m paid<\/p>\n

\u2018To fade\u2019 \u2013because I was made…\u201d<\/p>\n

The pattern of rhythm and sound of the words is enhanced, line on line, by enjambment as feelings spill while carrying the run of the poet\u2019s expressiveness from one line to the next without a syntactical break.<\/p>\n

Enjambment, by the by, is the poetic equivalent of footballer Cristiano Ronaldo\u2019s step over as it actually means \u201csteps over\u201d or \u201cruns over\u201d\u2014 the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza.<\/p>\n

The subtext of these feelings is tragic: To fade is what every artist fears. Indeed, the late American musician Kurt Cobain\u2019s suicide note contained the teary words, \u201cIt\u2019s better to burn out than to fade away.\u201d Cobain shot himself dead at the age of 27 on April 5, 1994.<\/p>\n

On a cheerier note, we don\u2019t have much ABC poetry in Uganda. However you may find it partly (and brilliantly) deployed in the poem \u201cI love like i hate you\u201d by Titus Nsubuga, 2019 S4 Vac, St. Denis Ssebugwawo, Ggaba.<\/p>\n

Each line of Nsubuga\u2019s work here builds upon the central topic of the poem to crescendo with a bang. \u201cLife\u201d by Rushongoza Begumya, 2015 S6 Vac, Mengo S.S.S, is an insightful piece.<\/p>\n

Written in straightforward language, without the frills which come with fancy wording, it is expressed by two stanzas, the first introduction of the whole:<\/p>\n

\u201cLife is an exam<\/p>\n

An exam written on white paper<\/p>\n

With questions written in black<\/p>\n

\u201cThis exam is sat for in a big, endless room<\/p>\n

With many candidates<\/p>\n

Some pray<\/p>\n

Others bite nails<\/p>\n

Others sleep,<\/p>\n

Only to wake up when the start bell<\/p>\n

goes….\u201d<\/p>\n

It has shades of what Shakespeare said when he wrote,<\/p>\n

\u201cLife… is a tale.<\/p>\n

Told by an idiot,<\/p>\n

full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n

For an exam signifies that you pass or fail as a means to achieving the sound and fury of success, in a strictly formal sense, only to later question the very notion of success.<\/p>\n

At any rate, the poet self-consciously reconciles the tension of form in his free verse to ensure that \u201ceach line corresponds exactly to one single breath unit.\u201d Which also applies to the poem, \u201cThere\u2019s a goat\u2019s head between my legs\u201d by Bridget Ankunda, 2019 S.6 Vac, Mt. St. Mary\u2019s College, Namagunga.<\/p>\n

The pattern stresses on syllables in each line is breathless in its virtuosic intensity.<\/p>\n

\u2018\u2019Yamawe!!!!!\u2019\u2019 I screamed,<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a goat\u2019s head between my legs!<\/p>\n

An animal has taken up residence within<\/p>\n

me<\/p>\n

Without my permission!\u201d<\/p>\n

The man on my left was disgusted<\/p>\n

And cursed all millennials and their sickening theatrics.<\/p>\n

Kati lwaki otuwogganira?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s just a goat\u2019s head.<\/p>\n

Ignore it.<\/p>\n

It will go away.\u201d<\/p>\n

The poem is riveting. The \u201cgoat\u201d is an elusive metaphor which adds to the poem\u2019s curiosity value.<\/p>\n

Speaking of metaphors, Bridget Ankunda has another poem entitled: \u201cRooms and the dust in them.\u201d It\u2019s an exceedingly clever, subtly nationalistic poem.<\/p>\n

\u201cSomeone tell Susan Kiguli<\/p>\n

She is not the only one who is tired of talking<\/p>\n

In metaphors….\u201d<\/p>\n

As the last poem, it leaves the reader longing for more. Artistically, \u201cRhymers, Metaphors and I: The Best in Verse in Vac Poetry 2014-2020\u201d is one of the most engaging anthologies I have read in a very long time. Each poem is special for the way it singularly seems to roll off your tongue.<\/p>\n

Poet Byron Aaron Alinda, 2018 S6 Vac, St. Mary\u2019s College, Kisubi, underscores this fact in his poem, \u201cShithole Country\u201d:<\/p>\n

\u201cA wise man said if every Ugandan swept outside his gate<\/p>\n

We would make it to billboard,<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t bring your cloud to rain on our parade.<\/p>\n

All you need is faith the size of the mustard seed to grow high.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the words of American rapper Jay-Z, can I get an Encore?<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Ethiopia. This book is divided into five parts embracive of each school vacation from schools ranging from Nabisunsa Girls\u2019 Secondary School to King\u2019s College Budo, through the years of 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020. It is structured around a prologue, preamble, monologues and an epilogue. 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