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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FUNERAL SERMON, SOWETO, by WOLE SOYINKA Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: We wish to bury our dead. Now, a funeral Last Line: And now, we wish to bury our dead Subject(s): Funerals; Nigerian Civil War | |||
View Poem Text | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...STATE OF THE UNION: 23. CONCERNING MY COMMAND AND OTHER by JOHN PEPPER CLARK ELEGY ON THE URGENCY OF FAXES AND PHONECALLS AGAIN by JOAN PAYNE KINCAID TWO EPITAPHS: 1. CHRISTOPHER OKIBO by DAVID RUBADIRI CIVILIAN AND SOLDIER by WOLE SOYINKA HARVEST OF HATE by WOLE SOYINKA MASSACRE, OCTOBER '66 by WOLE SOYINKA MAGDALEN by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON FONTENOY, 1745: 1. BEFORE THE BATTLE: NIGHT by EMILY LAWLESS TO ALTHEA, FROM PRISON by RICHARD LOVELACE A DECANTER OF MADEIRA, AGED 86, TO GEORGE BANCROFT, AGED 86 by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL |
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