Introducing
Your new presentation assistant.
Refine, enhance, and tailor your content, source relevant images, and edit visuals quicker than ever before.
Trending searches
A two-time nominee for Best of the Net Nominations, and was among the finalists for the 2015 Best of the Net. Recently, Rattle Magazine and Poet Lore nominated his poems for the 2017 Pushcart Prize.
Rasaq Malik is a graduate of the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in various journals, including Michigan Quaterly Review, Poet Lore, Spillway, Rattle, Juked, Connotation Press, Heart Online Journal, Grey sparrow, Jalada, and elsewhere. He is a two-time nominee for Best of the Net Nominations. His poem was among the finalists for the 2015 Best of the Net Nominations. Recently, Rattle Magazine and Poet Lore nominated his poems for the 2017 Pushcart Prize.
Resaq Malik the African poet/dreamer from Nigeria, went to the University Of Lbaden and Poetic peregrination at the blue crescent international college.
Mr.Malik once stated in an interview that " Living in Nigeria is like walking a dark path" he uses that emotion to drive him to write pieces like In Another World. He expresses that he fears death in third world counties and he wants everyone to know that it is an actual struggle in his work.
In another world I want to be a father without
passing through the eternal insanity of mourning
my children, without experiencing the ritual
of watching my children return home as bodies
folded like a prayer mat, without spending my
nights telling them the stories of a hometown
where natives become aliens searching for
a shelter. I want my children to spread a mat
outside my house and play without the walls
of houses ripped by rifles. I want to watch my children
grow to recite the name of their homeland like Lord’s
Prayer, to frolic in the streets without being hunted like
animals in the bush, without being mobbed to death.
In another world I want my children to tame grasshoppers
in the field, to play with their dolls in the living room,
to inhale the fragrance of flowers waving as wind blows,
to see the birds measure the sky with their wings.
Resaq Malik the African poet/dreamer from Nigeria, went to the University Of Lbaden and Poetic peregrination at the blue crescent international college. Mr.Malik once stated in an interview that " Living in Nigeria is like walking a dark path" he uses that emotion to drive him to write pieces like In Another World. He expresses that he fears death in third world counties and he wants everyone to know that it is an actual struggle in his work.
Malik speaks on a topic about how he doesn't want to be the father that lays his children to rest. He wants them to know their roots and embrace them
Malik speaks on a topic about how he doesn't want to be the father that lays his children to rest. He wants them to know their roots and embrace them. The tone of the poem was serious because Resaq Mailk is adamant about his children's future. Knowing that nine times out of ten the world he dreams of isn't realistic. Towards the end of the poem, the tone takes a turn and now the author seems to feel more hopeful. In line 4 the author says "without experiencing the ritual
of watching my children return home as bodies folded like a prayer mat". He uses imagery to paint the picture of children's death in Nigeria. A comparison was made to state how much Malik wanted his offspring to know the history of there culture " I want to watch my children grow to recite the name of their homeland like the lord's prayer". This poet wants the reader to see the words as we read them. " I want my children to tame grasshoppers in the field, to play with their dolls in the living room" he intended for his audience to see a child paying with grasshoppers or a little girl playing with dolls in a living room. Resaq Mailk ends his poem with a given theme of another world can only be better than the one we are already in.
Malik wants children to embrace who they are, and where they're from. Malik expresses the way he wants people to feel about his homeland by using the perspective of children. I also agree with your recognition of the change of vision in the story. The first section of the story talked about mourning of losing loved ones and his negative thought on his homeland. The second portion talked about his vision of children playing with dolls and enjoying life.
the theme is make sure to live in the simple and important moments because you may not be able to make more. Malik wanted to have those memories with and of his children, but his kids were taken from him before that could occur.
e main idea of this poem is that Malik does not want to "lay his children to rest." Malik is a mourning father who is upset about his children not being able to live their lives fully. He wanted to watch them play outside of his home with happiness and is distressed because that can no longer happen.
VIDEO: (submitted separately)