Ogun
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Edward Kamau Brathwaite wrote the poem Ogun based on his personal memories of his great uncle, Robert O=Neil, a carpenter and wood carver. The poem can be divided into two basic sections. The first was a description of the workshop and the carpenter=s daily life. After a short transition, the second section was a description of how the carpenter carved the figure of god and what it meant to him. These sections were immensely filled with descriptive language showing imagery, diction, and movement. Brathwaite used these tools to express two separate tones and themes within his poem.
In the first part of Ogun, the common theme between stanzas was the work that the carpenter performs. The author was portraying to us that the wood was inanimate. The wood was very cold and lifeless. It was the carpenter that makes any type of alteration to the wood...