VOICE OF WISDOM
So I say …
Life is short. So face the new day
with a fistful of hope
and faith in yourself
Oh bearer of your own soul,
who you are is in your hands alone.
Don't let the deadness of the night steal your stars
Don’t let the voice of vice limit your greatness
with its lie and delusions.
Your story is your power.
You are the architecture of your own dream
And time is a custodian of no one
every moment is your canvass.
So I say …
get to work and paint yourself a brighter hue.
The world is yours.
Life is short. So face the new day
with a fistful of hope
and faith in yourself
Oh bearer of your own soul,
who you are is in your hands alone.
Don't let the deadness of the night steal your stars
Don’t let the voice of vice limit your greatness
with its lie and delusions.
Your story is your power.
You are the architecture of your own dream
And time is a custodian of no one
every moment is your canvass.
So I say …
get to work and paint yourself a brighter hue.
The world is yours.
Analysis and Review of the poem by Okoro Amarachi Anastasia.
A simple short poem written by Okoro Amarachi Anastasia that spread a great wisdom to her audience. It is a poem of one stanza written in a narrative form. The theme of poem renders a great advise to our young generation on the need to take hold of their future and shape it into a meaningful story. This poem passes a great moral and wisdom about life. The tone of the poet is clam yet, instructive. The language is simple and concise.
I love how the speaker started the poem, “so I say…”, giving the impression of the first person pronouns. Making her presence felt more seen and real in mind of the readers. The poem addressed the need for active in designing your path as young walkers on the lane of life. The poem also encourages its reader to tap into their potentials and become the star they wished for. The poem shows its reader their greatness, strength and power to rewrite their story as time wait no one. The poem share the wisdom to take actions and achieve their goals in time.
There is use of poetic devices such as;
1. Enjambment: the running over of a sentence from one verse or couplet into another so that closely related words fall in different lines. This is seen in beginning of, for example, in line 2, 3, 4
“Life is short. So face the new day
with a fistful of hope
and faith in yourself “
“Life is short. So face the new day
with a fistful of hope
and faith in yourself “
2. Metaphor: a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them. Seen in line 10 “Your story is your power” and line 2 “Life is short”.
3. Personification: A representation of a thing or abstraction as a person or by the human form. Seen in line seven “Don't let the deadness of the night steal your stars”. Also seen in twelve “And time is a custodian of no one”, etc.
4. Allegory: the expression by means of symbolic fictional figures and actions of truths or generalizations about human existence. Seen in line three, “with a fistful of hope”, also seen in eleven “You are the architecture of your own dream”.
Other figures of speech used in poem are imagery, repetition (of the phrase “so I say”), etc