“In the cold hand of death…
his mouth was cotton filled, his man-pike
shrunk to a sub-soil grub
his head was hallowed and his brain
on scales-was this a trick to prove
fore-knowledge after death?”
Based on Wole Soyinka’s ” Post Mortem, one of the techniques employed by this poet is the use of
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juxtaposition
- rhetoric
- iambic meter
- allusions