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 sake.   


The theme of this poem is beauty and love both are subject to nature in comparison to the day’s brightness.

The poem is divided into two stanzas of unequal lines. The first stanza has three lines each. The rhyme scheme is simple and musical.

It makes prominent use of repetition which makes the lines lyrical. And this embellishes the poem and conveys its message easily.

The poem concludes on a very metaphoric note referring to a particular event in the life of the poetic personae which is her birthday.

The last word in the poem tells us about the poem’s prevailing mood.

Who is she to you?

And Adam said I quote, “This is the bone of my bones, and the flesh of my flesh: she shall be called woman, because she was taken out of me”. What a romantic declaration made by Adam the first man-made by the creator himself.  Your wife is a part of you. If you are beating her you are beating yourself. If you make her cry you make yourself cry. If you inflict jury on her you are hurting yourself too.


When she weeps you weep,

When she rejoices you rejoice.

Learn to treat her so.

Extract from the ‘Wife Beater’ by Eguriase S. M. Okaka


By Eguriase S. M. Okaka                                                    SARAH ELOGHOSA ODUWARE 





         (Poet)

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