Quote of the Week
“Praise bounteous
providence if you will
that grants even an ogre
a tiny glow-worm
tenderness”
Chinua Achebe, Vultures
Vultures is a poem about the profusion of love in unexpected places. I like to think that humanity, love (even if just for those closest to you, even if for just one person) and kindness exist in the coldest hearts. The poem is featured in GCSE English AQA anthologies in a cluster of poems from other cultures. Achebe is a Nigerian essayist, author and poet. His most famous work is Things Fall Apart (1958), a critique on British colonialism in Nigeria and its effects on the native Igbo culture.
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I quite liked the book Things Fall Apart. We read it in school a couple years ago and almost everyone just hated it. Soon after that, we read The Good Earth, by Pearl S. Buck (Pretty sure that she is the author)
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Yep, I read it in book club and everyone hated it except me. I think it’s a very unusual novel, in that you can’t really analyse it the same way you can with other books, i.e. you can’t take a structuralist approach. That always makes English literature students angry. I’m flattered you bothered reading my articles – thanks!
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