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Once Upon a Time and I to Choose by Gabriel Okara’ss
Prepared by: Chudasama Pratipalsinh V
Roll No. : 13P.G Enrolment NO. : PG12101020
Seat NO. : 11330013Sem : 3
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Submitted to:Smt. S.B. Gardi
Department of EnglishMaharaja Krishnakumarsinhji
Bhavnagar UniversityBhavnagar
(Gujarat – India)
Paper : The African Literature
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P.G Enrolment NO. : PG12101009Seat NO. : 11340006
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Gabriel Okara The most significant Serious early Nigerian poets The motifs childhood, innocence and nostalgia Many of his poem The identity of African Literature
Once Upon A Time - Theme
This is an emotional poem in which the father laments the innocence of youth
Content and Structure
Man’s adult world His childhood years The poem in this line
“They used to laugh
With their hearts” insincerity and their superficial laughs
“but now they only
Laugh with their teeth”
Important words/phrases
“while their ice-block-
could eyes” Example of a metaphor Real feeling in the words
“ Unlearn all these
Muting things” the person describes are muting Block or silence
Mood / Atmosphere
nostalgic young and innocent tone of the poem is Sad Thematic cataloging
Death,
Desire / Dreams,
Loss of innocence,
Hypocrisy
Childhood experiences
Irony
o Ironico Persona is behavingo Adam’s curseo Toiling in the soil o Compared to the Negroso Very Foundation
