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Analysis Of Telephone Conversation By Wole Soyinka

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The poem “Telephone Conversation” written by Wole Sayinka. He is an African poet but he lived in America. He is the first person in Africa and the diasporas to be honored with a Nobel prize in literature (1986). In his poem, “Telephone Conversation” the main theme is how human beings are bent to focus and based on individual differences which seldom give us a chance to look into our psyche and determine where and how far we have stayed within us. Also, it explains how a normal communication is affected as we focus too seriously upon our recognizable differences. This poem is about a landlady and an African man’s conversation on the telephone. Also, the poet talks about two people’s talk on the phone and explain more how the African man is looking for a house and the landlady has proposed a considerable price for the same. Therefore, In “telephone conversation” the poet explained about discrimination and how people ignore other people about a simple theme. Black people can have also a good skill, talent, ability. So someone is black or white it is not important for us.
Soyinka’s telephone conversation delimitate a conversation between a white lady and an
African man. Which man tried to ranting a house from that landlady. When the man talked about house ranting with the landlady that time the lady talked about skin color. She tried to know about his skin color and told him “Are you light or very dark”? Because her decision was not to

rent her house any African. When the women

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