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This is a superb creation.
Excellent metaphor, more than just the students as busy little bees, but expanding out to metonymy - who thinks of school as a flower and education as their nectar?
Their sonorous buzz almost onomatopoeiac in the text, "From dawn to dusk / From days to weeks / From months to years."
But the crushing end verses have profound and remaining clarity of truth.
"In fact there is no destination."
Ended with a full stop on purpose - to stop the text, to end the sentence to hold the thought in one moment.
Then shatter the silence "Only Eurocentric luxuries."
And again, "Collecting nectars that I ought."
Then slaying the thought, ""Because my dreams / Are Eurocentric luxuries".
Then the damning finale,"But the realities of my dreams / Will never be my destiny."
How many Papua Niuginian school children have felt this way?
How many more will feel this way?
Posted by: Michael Dom | 08 August 2020 at 09:07 PM