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- Homage and Courtship: Romantic Stirrings of a Young Man
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: LANGAA RPCIG
summary
Here is a collection of sixty-two beautifully crafted poems on some of the deepest of human emotions. They celebrate love, constancy, beauty, marriage, birth and death; in the poems are hailed intellectual labour, leadership and duty. Occasionally, the poet depicts the states of his mind against the backdrop of nature, interfusing description, memory and meditation in a manner essentially romantic. The best in Ambanasom's poetry is matter and manner combined. The striking force of the poems lies in the intriguing relationship between romanticism and romance. Ambanasom's romanticism is concerned with the concept of nature as a universal being or a cosmic entity, nostalgia, the attempt to link his childhood with the present and the future, and the response to nature at different levels of his development. The poet also demonstrates a penchant for rural subject matter, places and people. In the poet of romance there is a more direct expression of basic human emotions, in particular of love that is enchanting, possessing, seductive, and alluring. We find in the poems, love that is reciprocal and imbued with constancy and understanding.
Table of Contents
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- Introductory Essay
- pp. xi-xv
- Preface to the Revised Edition
- pp. xvii-xviii
- Preface to the First Edition
- pp. xix-xxi
- PART I: HOMAGE
- ONE YEAR OLD
- p. 4
- ALMA MATER
- p. 5
- THE RUINED PALACE
- pp. 6-7
- THE SKY WEEPS
- pp. 8-9
- THE MEDIATORS
- p. 10
- HOARDED IMPRESSIONS
- p. 12
- ICON AND BEACON
- pp. 13-14
- THE TALENTED THREE
- pp. 15-16
- EBANG IROKO
- p. 17
- THE DREADFUL MONSTER
- pp. 18-19
- A PLEA FOR MERCY
- p. 20
- THE GOLDEN MEAN
- p. 21
- THE TALLEST IROKO
- p. 22
- THE CHANGED GROVE
- p. 23
- A WISE DWARF
- pp. 25-28
- BREVITY OF JOY
- pp. 29-30
- ON LOSING MY HAIR
- p. 31
- THE HORSE RIDER
- p. 32
- INDIFFERENT NATURE
- p. 33
- THE DUDUM CITIZEN
- p. 34
- THE CAGED LION
- pp. 35-36
- THE LAST SALUTE
- p. 37
- ELEMENTAL FURY
- p. 38
- A GRAIN OF CORN
- pp. 39-41
- HEALING DREAMS
- pp. 42-44
- WATCH YOUR APPETITE
- pp. 45-46
- ODE TO SABGA HEIGHTS
- pp. 48-51
- PART II: COURTSHIP
- GO & TELL LADY ZEE
- p. 55
- MY SUPERSTELLA
- p. 56
- HER SMILES
- p. 57
- WE ARE ONE
- p. 58
- ON MEETING LADY ZEE
- p. 61
- A MOMENT AGO
- pp. 62-63
- A UNIVERSAL TYRANT
- pp. 64-65
- SHE BRIGHTENS ALL
- p. 66
- ALL FOR A FACE
- p. 67
- A FRUITFUL VOYAGE
- p. 68
- FROM GLOOM TO GLEE
- pp. 69-70
- CELLPHONE CONTACT
- p. 71
- THE SPITTING COBRA
- p. 72
- THE BEAST IN MY INSIDE
- pp. 75-76
- THE MOSQUITO
- p. 78
- YOU ARE THE BEST
- p. 79
- ZEE IS MY MUSE
- p. 80
- BREATHTAKING BEAUTY
- p. 83
- THE NIGHT OF THE NIGHTMARE
- pp. 84-85
- LOOK UP IN THE SKY!
- p. 86
- IF I WERE TO HATE MY LADY
- pp. 88-89
- EPITHALAMION (ODE TO LADY ZEE)
- pp. 93-104
Additional Information
ISBN
9789956578962
Related ISBN(s)
9789956616589
MARC Record
OCLC
694146184
Pages
132
Launched on MUSE
2013-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No