“In my view language was the most important vehicle through which that [colonial] power fascinated and held the soul prisoner. The bullet was the means of the physical subjugation. Language was the means of the spiritual subjugation.”

According to Neocolonialism, when colonial powers physically left the African continent…

“Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; snug as a gun. Under my window, a clean rasping sound When the spade sinks into gravelly ground: My father, digging.”

At the close of Kafka’s “Metamorphosis,” what does the Samsa family consider doing?

“At the cross, at the cross where I found the Lord… he was doing it for her… he had singled only her out of the thrilling throng… of this she was certain… came the dancing and she was even more certain of his love… he was doing it for her. Lord, I have been loved once… once… I have been loved, Lord… And those moments in Ilmorog forest and woods were part of her: what a moaning, oh, Lord what a moaning… and the drums and the tambourins were now moaning in her dancing heart. She was truly Miriamu.”

Regarding the short story written by Nawal el Saadawi, what does the titular term “in camera” mean?

What does Yeats use to grapple with the Easter Rising insurrection and its aftermath in “Easter 1916” ?

“The pictures we were receiving were not his assistant’s but those of other reporters who had appropriated Azucena, bestowing on her the pathetic responsibility of embodying the horror of what had happened in that place.”

Which line below is an example of self-referential poetry, which modernists such as Pound, Moses, and Hikmet liked to write?

“I write it out in a verse– MacDonagh and MacBride And Connolly and Pearse Now and in time to be, Wherever green is worn, Are changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born.”