Homage and Courtship: Romantic Stirrings of a Young ManHere is a collection of sixty-two beautifully crafted poems on some of the deepest of human emotions. They celebrate love, constancy, beauty, marriage, birth and death; in the poems are hailed intellectual labour, leadership and duty. Occasionally, the poet depicts the states of his mind against the backdrop of nature, interfusing description, memory and meditation in a manner essentially romantic. The best in Ambanasom's poetry is matter and manner combined. The striking force of the poems lies in the intriguing relationship between romanticism and romance. Ambanasom's romanticism is concerned with the concept of nature as a universal being or a cosmic entity, nostalgia, the attempt to link his childhood with the present and the future, and the response to nature at different levels of his development. The poet also demonstrates a penchant for rural subject matter, places and people. In the poet of romance there is a more direct expression of basic human emotions, in particular of love that is enchanting, possessing, seductive, and alluring. We find in the poems, love that is reciprocal and imbued with constancy and understanding. |
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... human life in the face of wickedness and determined evil. Furthermore, the structural repetition of it tolls accentuates the music of lament and reinforces the idea of the inevitability of death. In ''Abendong'', the messianic stature ...
... human life in the face of wickedness and determined evil. Furthermore, the structural repetition of it tolls accentuates the music of lament and reinforces the idea of the inevitability of death. In ''Abendong'', the messianic stature ...
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... human emotion which is all the more realistic. It is in this context that one can situate Homage and Courtship; for it expands the range of human emotion in our literature. Therefore, its publication needs no further justification than ...
... human emotion which is all the more realistic. It is in this context that one can situate Homage and Courtship; for it expands the range of human emotion in our literature. Therefore, its publication needs no further justification than ...
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... human predicament. The striking force of the poems lies in the intriguing relationship between romanticism and romance. Ambanasom's romanticism is concerned with the concept of nature as a universal being or a cosmic entity, nostalgia ...
... human predicament. The striking force of the poems lies in the intriguing relationship between romanticism and romance. Ambanasom's romanticism is concerned with the concept of nature as a universal being or a cosmic entity, nostalgia ...
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... human emotions, in particular of love that is enchanting, possessing, seductive, and alluring. We find in the poems, love that is reciprocal and imbued with constancy and understanding. The poet's fascination for Lady Zee is exceeding ...
... human emotions, in particular of love that is enchanting, possessing, seductive, and alluring. We find in the poems, love that is reciprocal and imbued with constancy and understanding. The poet's fascination for Lady Zee is exceeding ...
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