Literature Question #02: "Poets are the
teachers". Use two poems to discuss this point of view. (8 points)
INITIAL RESPONSE
This question
requires students to define terms 'Poets' and 'Teachers' and elaborate the
needs of the question. One of the question's needs is to show how poets become
teachers in the society. In other words, the question is going to explore how
the poets from two poems have tried to teach the society by using various
issues or lessons.
Example:
Poets are the
people who compose poems. Teachers are the people who teach or educate other
people in the society. It's the truth that poets teach the society by making
people aware of the various burning issues of the society. By using the poems
YOU ARE LOST by Isaac Mruma and YOUR PAIN by Armando Guebuza, the poets have
tried to teach the society as follows:
In YOUR ARE LOST,
the poet has successfully tried to teach the society in the following ways:
Moral decay. Moral decay is the deterioration of the moral values of the
particular society. Isaac Mruma in this poem has portrayed moral decay as a
source of the fall of many core values of the society. He teaches people to
retain the good morals of the society.
Selfishness. This is the situation whereby someone becomes greedy. In
the poem, the poet has shown that some women are selfish because they want good
things for themselves without considering the welfare of the other people. The
poet teaches people not to be selfish.
Position of waman in the society.
Love affair.
In YOUR PAIN
Awareness.
Protest.
Unity and solidarity.
Exploitation.
Thus, what poets do
is to teach the society in order to attain the development of the particular
society. This is a proof that poets are the teachers of the society. The
societies can develop if it has the artists like poets who can air out the
cries of the people and make the society and its people responsible.
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