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The Day Dawn for Sarah By Eguriase S.M. Okaka

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THE DAY DAWN for SARAH The day dawn and bright on you A day to behold   A child born as such as you A child to behold   5       A child fair as fair as you A child to cherish   The day dawn and bright on you That day is today! 9       Cheers!   Content Analysis of the Poem The Day Dawn for Sarah is a eulogy that expresses the poet's deep emotion for his love Sarah. The poem reflects life, beauty, and love in comparison with the dawning and brightness of the day. Her beauty also consider as that of a little baby, Lines 3 – 5. It shows that one cannot frown at a baby’s beauty that is how you cannot frown at her beauty as well. When a child is born we all rejoice both enemies and non-enemies alike. We then say how beautiful the child looks only a few jealous folks will say the child is ugly. However, not many can voice this because everyone little child is presumably beautiful for conscience's...

Second-Class Citizen By Buchi Emecheta (Theme/Thematic Preoccupation)

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  SECOND-CLASS CITIZEN BY BUCHI EMECHETA THEMES (THEMATIC PREOCCUPATION)   Racial Discrimination and Identify Crisis   Second-Class Citizen depicts ordinary Africans who are naturally blacks, and explores, how the fact of their race inhibits them from enjoying a glorious stay in a foreign land. The title of the novel “Second Class Citizen refers to a substandard, inferior, and black citizen in the novel, the fact that there are second-class citizens and first-class citizens makes racism and identity crisis evident in the novel. The former is associated with the British people, who stand the chance of becoming a partaker of everything the society offers, while the latter which is black (Africans to be precise) have their choices limited.  They are not allowed to live with their white counterparts, which is a white dominant community.  The blacks are forced to live in slums, while menial jobs are meant for them.     For example, Adah and he...