I Wake Up This Morning Poem

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ANALYSIS OF I WAKE UP THIS MORNING POEM ‘I wake up this morning’ poem tries to tell the general public, some of the negative thing that people who are in authority in the society do and how they mysteriously use all sort of means to cover their bad and shameful deeds. The use of sounds and imagery is used to broadcast this message to the public. There are also the use of themes that reflect on some of the negative societal issues such as social and political corruption, oppression suffered by the masses and mismanagement of societal resources. The poem has an irregular stanza and rhyme scheme. From the first stanza, there is evidence of the use of auditory imagery. There is a description of ‘waking up’ as an incident that occurs in the morning. The word, ‘Morning’ marks a new beginning. Line 3 and 4 further emphasizes auditory imagery by making readers picture the ‘youthful breeze’ and wavering nature of leaves that make a whoosh sound to the effect of the breeze (line 3) and auditory imagery of people walking and the sound made by their feet (evident in line 4). The words throat and road rhymes in this stanza. In addition, he further gives insight to the reader on the new beginning/era by repeating ‘the day’ in the second stanza. He uses auditory imagery to describe work activities done daily. The use of alliteration in ‘spinner to spin a spindle’ and ‘smith to fan smiling coals into hissing steels’ suggests that it is time for people to carry out their daily responsibilities. ‘Smiling coals’ is personified and ‘hissing’ shows the onomatopoeic sound effect. He repeats the word ‘time’ in lines 2 and 4 which is an example of the use of anaphora, making it clear to the reader the conscious effect of the day’s activities. Nevertheless, he uses auditory imagery to capture the attention of his listeners in the third stanza. In his poem ‘village voices’, he
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