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Saturday, February 21, 2009

Poetry in the society

In an interview led with a poet of the Midlands, Gweru, Dumisani Ndlovu indicated the masuku of Caven, that to be a poet is an inert capacity.
Ndlovu which had been born into 1980 from Mkoba (Gweru) in Zimbabwe achieved its secondary education with 8 passages of Dosert. He began poetry in 1998. Creature started at the school in 1996 when I was accustomed to preparing before colleagues of school, said Ndlovu. Poetry right as any other form of kind of art is employed like manner of disseminating information in some gatherings and can transform people’s lives.

Cultural poetry in the past was employed to link member of the Community and to perpetuate our culture. Poetry like forms communication ululates and congratulates the kings and the Queens who would be looked like pillar of the community. The language must be made to measure with words decorative, creative and embellished to transform the people’s lifestyle. Poetry enriches the company by the use of the proverbs, the idioms, the metaphors and the comparisons.

In the African the majority of poetry is prepared with the difference of in the Western countries where it is presented in the written form. In an African context the poet gets dressed in full regalia African among which a crown made up of the feathers of ostrich and Eagles includes. It uses sometimes a hat knitted with fibers and a knobkerrie and a shield made with skins of a cow; all those are symbolic systems with our culture of Africa.

This also in a manner indicates the types of animals found in the sector and depicts an image which can be educational with the majority of the people around the sector. It is important to point out the nation to stick to their culture and not to completely replace it by the Western one, Ndlovu said.

He said to masuku of Caven that he was inspired by Albert Nyathi and Mzwakhe Mbuli of South Africa. Ndlovu has an idea that one should teach pupils of school poetry at the tender years. They are the need to give qualifications on the way in which to expose and write the poetry of the school, he added. Because a poet Ndlovu said that the National council of arts of Zimbabwe should present a reward for poetry

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