The Awakening Age Question Answer and Summary by Ben Okri

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The Awakening Age Question Answer and Summary


Summary


"The Awakening Age" is a poem by Nigerian poet and novelist Ben Okri. In it, he shows the African people's difficulties and pains. He appeals or calls for the peace, prosperity, happiness, liberation, unity and harmony among the people of the world. He wishes to awaken the whole world and its people from the world of darkness, and poverty to the awakening age of enlightenment.

The poem has seven stanzas and each stanza contains two lines. As the poem has altogether 14 lines, it looks like a sonnet. It opens with a colloquial words like 'Oye'. Then, he talks about journey of the people who travel in the meridian line, have vision of the new world.

The speaker wants Africans to see a new world. He wants the African to see and feel the awakening age. They have endured years of starvation, suffering, and poverty, making them a poor and marginalised group. He also desires them to feel the Awakening Age Glory . The waking era refers to the moment when Africans recognize, realize, or become conscious of their situation and the start of their new world.

In the speaker's words, an invisible power drives his people, a hope like a mountain rope. Destitute Africans use their resources to reach new heights. They want to prove that they are bigger than their problems. They also aim to uncover their abilities and utilize them to benefit others as well as themselves.

Overall, These regular travelers may see the impoverished people's pains and difficulties and desire to awaken them to the contemporary world of freedom, liberation, equality, and prosperity. The poet then goes on to discuss about optimistic individuals who are highly hopeful about humanity's intertwined history, and how they can climb over the hill using a rope of hope to reach a greater height. Through hard labor, ingenuity, and suffering, this rope of hope led humanity to the era of enlightenment, empowerment, wisdom, equality, and prosperity. They have a crystal clear heart that is pure and white. He aspires to witness the voice of equality, freedom, emotions of brotherhood, justice, togetherness, and peace among the people of the globe via this skillfully produced poetry with effective rhyming schemes, which highlights problems of partiality, inequality, poverty, race and color discrimination. He would rather see a caring, egalitarian society in which people support one another out of brotherly and sisterly sentiments.



Short Question Answers

  1. Who are the people 'who travel the meridian line?

    2. - The people “who travel the meridian line are the Nigerians who have come together after Nigeria's long civil war, which split the country into two halves: north and south.


  2. What does the poet mean by 'a new world?

    3. - "A new world" in the poet's view is one that is filled with peaceful happiness as well as a sense of oneness, truth, knowledge and creativity.


  3. How are people connected to each other?

    4. - People are connected to each other by the hope of achieving peace, harmony and unity.


  4. What can we gain after our perceptions are changed?

    5. - Once we change our perspectives, we may achieve more harmony, equality, prosperity, and a sense of brotherhood and sisterhood.


  5. How are we benefited by new people?

    6. - We can be benefitted by new people because of their open minded thoughts and innovative ideas. New people are above any sort of discriminations, rages, angers, and hatred to each other. Their innovative thoughts and creativity helps to awaken people from pains and sufferings. Such people are certain to make Nigeria a prosperous nation according to the poet.

  6. Describe the rhyme scheme of this sonnet.

    7. - The rhyme scheme to this sonnet goes like this: AA BB CC DD EE FF GG. It is a Monorhyme, where every line has the same rhyme scheme and a couplet. It adds rhythm and a lovely musical tone to the poem, making it more interesting.



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