WHY OLAMI-UCHE COMMITTED SUICIDE IN ABUJA
When Olami-Uche left his home on that fateful Thursday morning, his wallet had exactly one thousand, seven hundred and twenty naira in it. It was everything he had in the...
NO MORE
Caked sperm flaked off Cynthia’s stomach when she woke up that Saturday morning. She was alone in the bedroom. The bastard was gone. As usual. She heaved a sigh as...
GOOD POETRY, AN ANALYSIS OF ‘REFUGEES’, BY MICHAEL INIOLUWA OLADELE
Poetry gets me excited and ‘good poetry’ get me intoxicated. That is why I just felt rapturous after reading Michael Inioluwa Oladele’s ‘REFUGEES’, a poem he submitted for publishing on...
50 POEM TYPES EXPLAINED
Many of us have been writing poems without actually knowing the names of particular forms and styles of poetry. Some have also found certain kinds of poems appealing but do...
EUPHEMISM, UNDERSTATEMENT, LITOTES: KNOW THE DIFFERENCE?
Today we consider these three easily confused literary terms – euphemism, understatement and litotes. If you consider the fact that the translation for the English word “understatement” is “litote” in...
TRIOLET: GAME OF REFRAINS, PUNCTUATION AND MEANINGS
A Triolet is a short poem of fixed form, having a rhyme scheme of AB, aA, abAB. Often (though not a rule) all lines are in iambic tetrameter. It may...
BORN OR MADE: A NOTE ON HOW TO BECOME A POET
Are poets born or made? For age upon ages, people have argued about how people become poets. Some people say you have to be a born poet to create good...
SYMBOLISM & IMAGERY IN POETRY: An ANALYSIS of ‘COUNTABLE STARS’ by Ebuka Wiz Godwin
Poetry, broken down to its simplest meaning, is the arrangement of words to share an idea, experience, or message with others. It is however different from news, articles, prose –...
ENJAMBMENT: DON’T DISFIGURE YOUR VERSES!!!
I have seen too many poems with lines broken into rags by ‘poets’ who think that a poem is more beautiful if broken up into a thousand senseless bits. So...
CAPITALIZATIONS IN POETRY: TO CAPITALIZE OR NOT TO CAPITALIZE?
To capitalize or not to capitalize? That is one question facing modern poets. Are poets expected to capitalize words in their poems – whether at the beginning or within their...