Ayepola Gboyega Richard is a Young, Talented, Upcoming, Nigerian Poet and Novelist who sees poetry and Literature at large as worlds of unchained expressions.
A Graduate of the Department of English from Nigeria’s
Premier University(University of Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria).
Some of the extracts of the chats between Gboyega and
PoojaBlog:
WHAT
KINDS OF POEMS DO YOU WRITE?
“I
see beyond the ordinary when I write poems and I believe the authenticity of a
poem is determined by the deepness of the source of inspiration. In other
words, the beauty of a poem is determined by how intense and vivid the
inspiration is. I write and speak for the masses, I adore the African culture,
I write about inadequacies in Governance, I write about love and Religion and I
write deeper poems pouring out strange emotions from a mind I don’t understand
sometimes. All in one, I embrace versatility.”
YOUR
POEM TITLED A TRAIN OF SQUALOR HAS RECEIVED GREAT APPRECIATIONS FROM THOSE THAT
HAVE VIEWED IT. DO YOU HAVE A DEEPER MEANING TO THE POEM AS OPPOSED TO WHAT THE
PUBLIC THINKS?
Well,
to a large extent, Meaning in a work of Art is often determined by the reader’s
interpretative ability. A Train of Squalor mirrors a society through a train
that passes along the Ikeja Express way. The poem reveals the predicaments of
two classes of people in the modern day society of Nigeria; The extremely
impoverished and the Traders, and it reveals the rich man’s dispositions
towards the moving train through the last line (the train is noisy, so they
say). It is a moving train, hence it is a symbolic representation of that
squalor that seems unstoppable and moves continuously on the soil of Nigeria
and Africa at large.
Enjoy the Massive Poem after the cut….Please leave your
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