DAWN BY CHRISTINA LWENDO

GENRE: POETRY TITLE: DAWN WRITER: CHRISTINA LWENDO, TANZANIA REVIEWER: PRUDENCE GAKEDIRELWE, BOTSWANA

Dawn is a free verse poem that is written with the essence of a black man's freedom and his independence. The once blurred identity and nature of humanity amongst the blacks resurrect and mark them out as human and deserving, as well as in their own eyes. This properly affirms the theme Revolution.

One may come to an understanding that if it were not of the terror that blacks were subjected to, it would have not been clear of the magnitude of their victories and their marks in history would have been unrecognisable. We see this in the poem as it shows a transition from fears that trod them down and that sense of giving in to what had been lain forth from the beginning to the beauty and firm proclamation of a keen rising. Due to the fears, they were limited from so much that makes life worth living; like dreaming and desiring; since besides such fuels one is not pushed into seeing and making a life for himself.

The poem comes with a firm tone dubbed in ounces of imagery throughout the whole read, as the poet paints the view of revolution, from the darkness that harbours the lives, into the beautiful new dawn. Emphasis given and stamped on the aspect of the rise of a new African people and dawn of the real beauty that is carried by the sons of the soil. The diction used gives readers the chance to look deeper into the revolution gained by the African people as it gives room for numerous interpretation all which put weight to the idea of revolution.

With every platform that identified the blacks to be considered a minority, is cancelled and its virtue lost. Nothing but the truth being the only aspect left of the lives of the blacks. This truth being the one to liberate them from the coffers of inferiority complexities that had infiltrated the minds and perspectives of many over time. L6, 'stomping false identities, given', giving evidence of misconceptions deliberated intentionally with a distortion and defamation aim.

The poet moves on to making it clear as to the shifting of events in L9 and L10, when putting across the change from the flow of blood symbolising death to life and birth as blood running through the veins is mentioned as this shows proofs that lives are no longer lost whether prematurely or timely but lives are preserved and more are born. We pick a time of grief within the mention of the terrors before the revolution as such bringing us to an appreciation that indeed the revolution was what made Africans live more gleefully.