THEME & DICTION ON WRRCOLLEGE OF POETRY

THIS IS THE CHALLENGE

Today's poetry quiz will be based on interpreting your poem's THEME with the right DICTION:
1. Write a 4-line poem of any style.
2. Tell us your chosen THEME and the MESSAGE.
3. Identify at least 6 key words and how they you used them to interpret your theme/message.
4. Show us at least 2 literary devices used.
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HERE'S MY SUBMISSION TO IT

360 DEGREES

As a plant matures, flowers blossom
A bee patches on soft, colorful, fragranced petals
Symbiotic kisses, sweet, delicious nectar as cowries
Bliss, a cocoon of life, an apocalyps and 360 degrees

STYLE: Free verse
THEME: Life
MESSAGE: Mankind is in a perpetual circle, from being a child to being a parent.
6 KEY WORDS: I) Plant - the human; ii) Flowers - sexual maturity; iii) Bee - admirers, suitors, lovers iv) Symbiosis - mutual exchange, love and.courtship, marriage v) Cocoon - conception of a foetus, pregnancy vi) Apocalyps - a new beginning, following child birth, the circle repeating itself as in a 360 degrees.
LITERARY DEVICES: 1. Personification - plant, bee, cocoon life etc 2. Allegory - flowers of a plant fertilized by insects (bees) used to represent young mature maiden (flower) and consummation (bee patching on it) and pregnancy in humans as represented by an encased entity (cocoon).

AND THE WINNER IS...

The winner here in class is Sir Tijjani Muhammad Musa. His analysis is short but I want you to look at his key words:

Plant - the human;
Flowers - sexual maturity
Bee - admirers, suitors, lovers
Symbiosis - mutual exchange, love and.courtship, marriage
Cocoon - conception of a fetus, pregnancy
Apocalypse - a new beginning, following child birth, the circle repeating itself as in a 360 degrees.

All the keywords are related and complementary.

20 OTHER POEMS WERE SOLID ENOUGH  AND TOGETHER WITH MINE... 

21 QUATRAINS — THEME AND MESSAGE

1.
As a plant matures, flowers blossom
A bee patches on soft, colorful, fragranced petals
Symbiotic kisses, sweet, delicious nectar as cowries
Bliss, a cocoon of life, an apocalyps and 360 degrees
~ Tijjani Muhammad Musa
**THEME AND MESSAGE:  Life: Mankind is in a perpetual circle, from being a child to being a parent.

2.
Glorifying on today’s weak praises
Hitherto the day’s procrastinated knowledge
Feeble minds dangle on latest victory
Cooked from myopic creativity
~ James Ademuyiwa Iredele
**THEME AND MESSAGE:  Mediocrity: the message is about how people neglect going through the appropriate routes of doing things, thereby leading to counterfeits of whatever they engage in or substandard creativity.

 

3.
Sun fed on my lonely skull
as moon secreted hope in my heart
the stars dominated cloud’s wall
when the sky fell into nature’s pit.
~ Mesioye Affable Johnson
**THEME AND MESSAGE:  Love, Loneliness: it reveals the experience of a lover who is lonely and still hopeful to get out of it someday

4.
did i drink from a river of bile?
did i tarry in feces for a while?
did i wrestle with pigs in mud
bitter, smelly, dirty… Oh God!
~ Kukogho Iruesiri Samson
**THEME AND MESSAGE: Self, Realisation, revelation, confusion. The persona in the poem has discovered something about himself, something strange and unpleasant.

5.
Thunders bark as lightenings spark
As a heart in love in turmoil churns
For the arrow of cupid did miss its mark
In the heaven it adores,a flame won’t burn
~ Olisa Onye
**THEME AND MESSAGE:  Unreciprocated love

6.
Dreaming days drowned in debris doubts
Taunting torments to tame tilting tales
Laying whiplashes on hope
As feeble minds fall in love with ribbons on unleashed packages
~ Oluwatosin Faith Kolawole
**THEME AND MESSAGE:  Deceit, Politics: It simply tells us how the government twist us in a way to keep having hope in futureless days.

7.
The tots do not owe the gods
for the odds in their lot;
For on the knees of the gods
they got the rot in their lot.
~ Adeola Adebowale-Michaels
**THEME AND MESSAGE:  Fate: Man can not disassociate himself from the influence of the gods. The good or the blot on every man’s fate (destiny) has got a supernatural undertone. We get our fate from the gods and as rightly explained by the Yoruba mythology; “akunleyan”.

8.
Wheels along divers roads
waiting for the coastless crowd
drivers with double minds
stony hearts- trampling on this wasteland.
~ Moses Chibueze Opara
**THEME AND MESSAGE:  Life: Wheels, is a poem that talks about humans approach to this uncertain world. The poem talks about the world. By portraying mortal men as the “WHEELS” of the world along diverse roads. The world is where men treads everyday insearch of survival and hope.

9.
Roaring thunder births darkened skies
And the once bright canopy looks set †ơ shed bitter tears
The sun shuts its doors,the moon won’t open her window
But let the land smile as it sights the spreading rainbow
~ Salam Tiwistar Seun
**THEME AND MESSAGE:  Hope: there iƨ̣̇ always hope, no matter how twisted the situation is.

10.
Self sold short
I bessech you, do exchange for an invaluable worth
Be you a speck of sand?
So be a builder whose dust erects an edifice
~ Shade Mary-Ann Olaoye
**THEME AND MESSAGE:  Self confidence: We should always know ourself worth and rise above the thought of mediocre.

11.
What barter! what betrayal! What blood!
As he hoarded through fountains of foul fairies
Adventure was justified by his words and sword
Esau! You enslaved princes for porridge in a palatial porcelain in paraded ferries.
~ Olanrewaju Moses-Poet
**THEME AND MESSAGE:  Betrayal of national brotherhood: The poem discusses the evil deeds perpetrated by people in positions of power. It centers around the ‘foul’ ‘adventure’ of elected countrymen, who cajole the support and founded the sycophancy of the citizenry with sugarcoated ‘words and sword’ of coercion.

12.
A breath of air
Breath of fresh air
Till it turned foul
My nose to maul
~ Ogechukwu Emmanuel Samuel
**THEME AND MESSAGE:  Change, good thing turned bad: My message is to the Nigerian government. Each new leader is hailed as ‘a breath of fresh air’ but upon assuming the office,this ‘fresh air’ turns foul.

13.
Arise oh compatriots;
Hear our Ancestors call;
Our light is faint,
But quite far from dead.
~ Abiola Inioluwa Oluwaseun
**THEME AND MESSAGE:  Arise: Its a message to our country men to stand firm and fight for our country’s freedom and integrity,not compromising.

14.
Dispute between Sodom and Gomorrah:
Deborah is jittery to be tag with leafs:
David is pleasant with dripping trourser:
I was there when Jamesconco saw fallen gate of Gomorrah
~ Sobowale Oluyemi Joseph
**THEME AND MESSAGE:  Indecency, Immorality, Destruction: Talking about how things had been turned backward under the influence of Civilazation and Technology.

15.
Needles of grace…
Stitches the wounds of memories..
Leaving scars that heal..
When time passes by…
~ Danny El
**THEME AND MESSAGE:  Heartbreak/betrayal

16.
Give me the masquerade’s jacket
May I have the doctor’s puppet?
There’s no pit into which I can fall
He held my hands and I did not sustain injuries as I played ball
~ Akinrinola Barnabas
**THEME AND MESSAGE:  God’s lasting and sure protection: The message of the poem is that no protection or healing, aside from the one God gives, lasts or is sure.

17.
I am an oryx endowned with onyx
Blessed with rags and crown of thorns;
My descendants scattered abroad like stars
“But,alas,my kingdom seeks a sceptre and orb”
~ Marvel Chukwudi Pephel
**THEME AND MESSAGE:  Racial prejudice,injustice: The message is that of racial discrimination which Africa faces.Despite that civilization started from Africa,the continent still lives in obscurity and treated like a slave when she should rule.

18
1970’s planted the beans for all
And assigned progenies to harvest and share
But weevils dipped snout, yet no despair
So who has pesticides should hearken the call
~ Gbadamosi Ridwanulahi Abiola
**THEME AND MESSAGE: Patriotism: Past heros politicians in Nigeria like awolowo, Zik had suffered to make Nigeria great but inevitable’s death forced them to handled the work to nowadays politician but with greediness and callouseness they embezzle, corrupt and failed to deliver but Nigerian still got hope a perfect hand will one day make it great.

19.
Astounded till my ghost almost flew away
Like it flew out of the diamond fryer, which laid on the grazed liter
And those rose-like comb and wattle wither
Some body please say it’s a prank!
~ James Ib
**THEME AND MESSAGE:  Shock/heart break: The sudden and unbelievable death of a valuable and cherished bird out of mysterious cause-the reason why the writer is astounded(shocked).

20.
The sparkle and coolness of snow
was blown from the mountain bows
across a deep sunken stream
the pink of blossoming tree
~ Jacob Timothy
**THEME AND MESSAGE:  Beautiful nature: the nature is beautiful that is why it is being compared with pink, colour of a blossoming tree which is brilliant and colourful, giving the us great visuals with words.

21.
These cracking pebbles were once a rock to the fierce storm.
Rigid and unbreakable; binded by unity’s gum.
But the rock later succumb to the strike of solitude’s thunder.
And the pebbles fell apart, now clashing with one another.
~ Isholaayodele Wasiu
**THEME AND MESSAGE: Unity

These poems were written as classwork on ‘THEME AND DICTION: THE CONNECTION‘ in the WRRPoetry College on Sept. 8th, 2014.