Textual Analysis as a Research Method.Research Methods for English Studies.(G.Griffin, Ed.) (2nd Edition). The study appropriates dialectic method to achieve the coherence of meaning of the text as a whole (poem structure and global structure).Īuthor’s worldview genetic structuralism socialism Summon poetry They are about and against the ideology which confuse the vision people have of themselves and of their lives and the friction that failed the implementation of Socialism ideology. They, in one or another provide the historical account for the building of Socialism ideology. The poems construct the ideal values of socialist state that seemed relevant in the post-independence Tanzania. In other words, the exploration of the worldview in the selected poems confirms the homology of the global structure. The exploration of worldview in selected poems congruence the social and historical realities and the Socialism ideology. Specifically, the study analyses the author’s social and historical conditions influenced the production of the Summons poetry and showcases how the author’s worldview in particular poems in general are creatively explored in the social realities.
The study places the poems under Lucien Goldmann’s genetic structuralism approach and argues against the historical context and discourse of Tanzania between 1960s and 1980’s. It focuses on selected poems of Mabala (1980) entitled Summons: Poems from Tanzania. This paper examines the worldview of Tanzanian poetry in English.
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