Some of the British Romantic poets were very political in their writings, embracing the French Revolution and siding with the oppressed. This paper argues that it is these factors that shape the content, form and language of the poems. The importance of this study is undoubted with the emergence of the African Renaissance ideology, which seeks to promote African art, literature, music, culture and traditions.
Many of the black writers and artists who happened to be enraged died as paupers. Ngwenya (1998:132) rightly concludes that the 'worldviews' of the social groups presented in Vilakazi's poetry are neither consistent nor homogeneous, but are instead characterized by contradictions and ambiguities. Ngwenya has concluded that poetic techniques and choice of subjects in Vilakazi's first collection of poems reflect the influence of the British Romantic poets.
Experience and innocence were major themes of William Blake, while odes to the wind and flowers were also major focuses of the British Romantic poets, and the same is true of B. This study uses this theoretical perspective because it is relevant to the scholar. B.W. Vilakazi) whose work is being studied.
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34;African Philosophy." E:re (1997), points out that Tempels, who was a Belgian missionary, believed that the Beluba (an ethnic group in Zaire) ontology formed and governed the ethical, political and economic everyday life of the African. It is this powerful nature of postcolonialism that has led me to consider it an appropriate tool to be used in the analysis of B.W.'s poetry.It is the postcolonial discourse that has made clear the fact that the legacy of the political left, center and right are complex in a way that cannot be defined.
I pointed out earlier that Western education has become central to the dominant worldview. The marginalization of Africans by Europeans was evident in all areas of social life in South Africa. Even Vilakazi's books were published by the "Bantu" division of the Wits University Printing Department.
1bis shows that his writings were informed and motivated by the experiences of the African people in colonial Africa/South Africa. There is a bias in this area that needs to be corrected because it is a feature of the colonial decline of African languages.
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Second, nature refers to the physical force that causes all the phenomena of the material world. The source of high Romanticism, Romantic consciousness, is the problem of realization of the sublime. The difference between the two types of Romantics is that the Reactionaries think that society is natural and therefore they want to be insiders in the society of the older type.
Romantics popularized the "reason of the heart," and this kind of reason can produce different beliefs. Bloom and Trilling describe Blake as one of the prominent leftists who viewed poetry as an expression of anger. In the Christian story of the Fall, he regarded the Garden of Eden as equivalent to paradise or innocence.
How different was the political content of that time from the content of Blake's poetry. Wordsworth focused on the notion of the poet as a person who writes about his own identity (Bloom and Trilling, 1973: 125).
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He then enrolled at the University of South Africa and graduated in 1934 with a Bachelor of Arts. This earned him a scholarship from the University of South Africa to study for a Masters in African Studies. During that period, higher education for Africans was available at the University College of Fort Hare in the Cape, but it did not offer an advanced course in African Studies.
Fortunately, the academic authorities already knew him, and the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg was in the process of publishing his first book of poems in Zulu, Intokho kaZulu - Zulu Songs. In 1936 Vilakazi was offered a position in the Department of Bantu Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand. Vilakazi did not stop furthering his own studies and as a result the University of the Witwatersrand awarded him the Master of Arts degree.
In the early 19th century, the "Zulu nation" itself hardly existed except for a few hundred people. It should be mentioned that by the time he joined the University of the Witwatersrand his poetry was already well-known because his first book titled Inkhoho kaZulu had already been published by that University. Vilakazi's appointment to the University of the Witwatersrand sparked opposition among some Africans in the Transvaal.
They thought he was abrupt in his behavior and sometimes he was rude. On the other hand, those Africans who did not go to school believed him to be a pleasant and approachable character. Regardless of what people thought of him, he considered himself a spokesman for his people, and in his second book of poems, Amal'ezulu (Zulu Horizons), he identifies himself with the struggles, fears, aspirations, sacrifices and the invincible. the soul of his people.
He was deeply concerned about the Zulu heritage, which he saw as being lost to the younger generation. He was keen to know more about Western music to the extent that he liked classical music. On 16 March 1946, Vilakazi's academic studies were rewarded with a Doctorate in Literature from the University of the Witwatersrand.
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It is this growing self that enables him to associate himself with the great events of the past. Vilakazi points out that the Lord Jesus once came to Africa, which is the land of black people. The stars in the sky remind him of his tears and God's tears.
In staIml six, seeing that he is becoming jealous of the lark, the poet denies it. The poet pursues a quest - being on a quest is the main characteristic of the Romantic poets. He felt the birds of heaven approaching to weaken that which is sacred to the Zulu nation.
This is because the beauty of the Waterfall will bring relief to the pain these people are going through. The state of tranquility is the source of the flow of imagination in the romantic poets. He is a romantic poet who wants to rise to the point where he can compare himself to the beauty of the wind.
The person's use of "l" suggests that he has a very deep romantic feeling for the nature of wind. Vilakazi also records the decline of African culture as it is blown away by the wind. Vilakazi's dialogue with the railway train is intended to reveal its nature to us.
We must always remember that the poet's voice or persona represents the African people. The persona is one of the workers, as he sits in the station waiting room. So when people die, they either go to the lands of their ancestors or to heaven.
The poet is also attracted by the color of the trees, there is something charming about them. This could be attributed to the hybridity of the culture in which Vilakazi wrote his poems.
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The main feature of the Romanticism in this poem is the "curiosity" of the persona to know what constitutes knowledge. The persona's interrogative nature is that of the post-colonial theorists who continue to question the Western discourse. It is believed that this kind of house is conducive to accommodating the spirit of the ancestors.
The person used to enjoy the music of the birds, but the birds in Johannesburg are different. The persona's eagerness to read books, to gain more wisdom, suggests the inquisitive nature of the persona. The persona notes that the black poets were not aware of the need to sing poems about the real life of the poor people.
The persona experiences the split 'self' or inner conflict because he is now aware of the oppressive nature of life. They will analyze his work that he wrote under the guidance of the ancestors. The health of workers is affected by the nature of the work they have to do.
It follows that the workers did not know the value of gold because they were ignorant and uneducated. The machines, as I have pointed out, were dependent on manpower and black men were part of the machines. The persona's emphasis on being alive, 'seeing and staying alive' suggests that he is aware of the nature of their exploitation.
A person submits to the will of the machines by going underground with his tools. Mine work was characterized by the loss of innocent workers' lives. Personal machines talk about the beautiful homes of the "man who made a fortune" from his exploitation.
Whites have unjustly enriched themselves at the expense of blacks. The mother is that part of the character that is always dependent and this face is called the Body.
