De Poem

Before I write what I was assign to write I want to point out something. I was skimming the package of passages and saw this one and read the first line and was carried away till the last line, amazingly. I connected with the poet, I think. “Dis Poem” made me feel in a rush, feel pressed to read it I finished it and I swear my heart was pounding harder.

Now to the academic.

Mutabaruka’s tone is critical and accusatory, I may even say remorseful. He uses onomatopoeia, repetition and cacophony “Lumumba Kenyatta Nkrumah”, he also applies aposiopesis “dis poem shall survive…u…me” and breaks down the word “history” into “his-story”, I really liked that but I don’t know what literary device is that. He definitely uses free verse and continuous enjambment. The conflict of the poem is racism but it also makes allusion to humanity, endless and unpredictable, it is what it says. I might just be Mutabaruka’s new fan.