Central Bicol State University of Agriculture-Calabanga

Assessments 1-3
Afro-Asian Literature

Name: _________________________________ Year and Section: _____________ Score: ________

Instructions: Analyse the following poems based on their structure and the literary devices used.
Provide a line-by-line analysis and interpretation.

A. Love After Love by Derek Walcott (50 pts.)

The time will come

when, with elation
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror
and each will smile at the other's welcome,

and say, sit here. Eat.

You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you

all your life, whom you ignored

for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,

the photographs, the desperate notes,

peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.

B. Aphasia by Chris Abani (50 pts.)

My language is dying the same way

                  my father did:

Alone. Night. And there are no storms. Only

                 moonlight straining through holes in a tin

roof

And the slight exhalation, lips

                  pursed as though to say:  Uwa'm. 

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