Eguria

AFRICAN DRAMA THE LION AND THE JEWEL BY WOLE SOYINKA CONTENT ANALYSIS PLOT The Lion and the Jewel is a dramatization of the conflict between modernism and as represented in Lakunle and traditionalism as depicted in Baroka, Sidi; a young beautiful village belle. Lakunle, a young teacher in the village Ilujunle, is in love with Sidi, the village queen who understands little of the modern world. She accepts the teacher’s love advances all the same and promises to be his wife the moment Lakunle pays the bride price as demanded by custom. He does not want a wife he would buy as one would do to a piece of furniture, but a companion in love and progress. He also talks of pulling down all the age-longed customs that weigh down on the womenfolk and creating activities that would bring up Ilujinle on the road of civilization.            Sidi does not believe in Lakunle’s revolutionary idea, as she was stuck in the trado-mythical world of Ilujinle. Like all the other memb

ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD BY THOMAS GRAY                                       The Curfew toils the knell of parting day                                           The lowing herd wind slowly o’er the LEA.                               The plowman homeward plods his weary way,                                           And leaves the world to darkness and to me                               Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight,                                           And all the air a solemn stillness holds;                               Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight,                                           And drowsy tinkling lulls the distant folds;                               Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tow’r                                           The moping owl does to the moon complain              10                               Of such as, wand’ring near her secret bow’r,