Analysis of The Metaphor of Death
Tile Tersoo 1991 (Zaki Biam)
THE METAPHOR OF DEATH
Death—
I’m the silent noisy appellation
I visit once and not twice,
Now load your luggage in a jiffy,
I have given you galore of time,
Continue in merry making!
For tomorrow might past thee not.
Man—
Ah! I trembled at your sight,
Death! For I have heard thy work,
I have just taken in a wife—
And soon to bore me a son!
Can you give me months or a year?
And I dare not to cross,
The demarcation of my promise,
Or confuse you with magniloquent.
Death—
You have spoken well,
But I’m the spirit that never compromise,
I cannot come again, to reparagraph,
And again, what do I tell my master?
You came unclad and unprepared,
Dare me not for tomorrow shall not pass!
Man—
“ what shall I tell my lover?”
That death has come or that my time is gone?
The most random serendipity,
The fate of an expectant couple,
Unrealism frowns mildly in this aegis.
What should I carry along my journey?
The commotion of this overwhelmed...
The sincerity of this metaphor!
The paradox of living, and the vanity of wealth.
Should I bribe death with my mansion,
Or with my scars and flashy cars!
Death—
Why do you worry yourself,
I’m the vagrant of nature, the drift dream:
And I need nothing, so keep those mundane,
For when the hour is come,
My fingers will snatch thy bleeding heart.
I’m the unannounced visitor,
That sits comfortably in your dining chair,
And wait to spell life out of you,
Brook your imbroglio—
Man~~
Uwu! So this is just it all?
The life I have planned ends,
And in second I shall be no more,
Sweat has bathed me ....
And heavy throbs have almost pull the life
Out of my being—
Death is wicked, and death is mean,
Why do you botched the plan of my luxury?
I wail to leave you my love...
Life and death are not fair to me;
The peak of my discernment.
Death—
I corroborate with thy soul to end thee
I’m enigmatic, evasive for I’m death..
Visiting houses and lives at will,
So, I ask soothingly......
Are you ready for me? My venomous;
Is about to visit a home.
Man—
Kpashi! Uma ka kwagh ga cii,
Alas! The love I promised, will go in vain,
Thinking about my solitary journey,
And the euphoria of that grain....
The rising anxiety of a quiet kidney.
Truly! My end has come suddenly...
The onomatopoeia of life,
Crashing, zooming and humming silently.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010011 1 101010010 1101011 111100010 111010111 01001010 1011111 1 1110111 1111111 11110001 0111101 11111101 011111 00101110 101111 1 11101 1101011010 11010111 0011111110 111001 111101111 1 1111110 1111111111 01100100 011101010 11100110 1111001110 00101101 0010011100 0101100010011 11111110 11110101 1 1111001 1010110011 0111011101 1101011 110111101 1001100 11100001101 01111111 11010 1 1111111 011111 001011111 1111 010111101 11110 11100111 11110111100 1111111 10111111 0111010 1 1010111111 1010010111 100100111 111100 1110111100 10111001 1 1101111 01011101101 1001110010 000100111 0100100101010 101111100 0111 1010010100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 2,329 |
Words | 490 |
Sentences | 36 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 30, 12, 11, 21 |
Lines Amount | 74 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 433 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 106 |
About this poem
The poem is a short reminder on the inevitability of death, while we live, enjoy and have fun, while we set out our plans, death in its own shell draws out plans too. It therefore a gentle reminder by the poet that, life is transient and we must not eschew death when we plan. In the poem a young man who has just been married is served a letter by death, the man pleads with death to give him few months to have a fun with the bride but to no avail. After a long conversation between death and the man, there is no hope for the groom as he concluded that life is transient and amount to nothing for in the end, all of us will leave this place we so much love and cherish. more »
Written on September 01, 2023
Submitted by tersoo2016 on January 21, 2023
Modified on March 14, 2023
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