Poem- Once Upon A Time by Gabriel Okara

                            “Once Upon A Time”

                                           

                           The poem “Once upon a time” written by Gabriel Okara . my short view about the poem here we may say that the poet indicates the father recognizes his younger self in his son also we can add some other point like the poet connect with Past and present , civilization , globalization connect global to global.

              The opening of the poem father talking to his son father has come back to his past also poet use the simplicity of language , father reflect emotion to his eyes. Because society they gave artificial smile.

              However, the new thing , new traditions comes in society . today life we can see how people live in new culture and new way. The native culture die and the birth of new culture also we can say that the people search for money they have to no hospitality .  it’s the tribal culture   and traditional culture people live in new culture their life in their own way.

             Poet uses the poetic language like,

-         Faces

-         Dresses

Here, we can say that the faces like dresses . because daily we wear different  and multiple kind of dresses  and we change daily so, here people use the different and multiple kind of expression. People they no stability because different faces. In this poem poet also indicates the smile. Smile is not become a real smile is a portrait of smile. Now father learn the own laugh. When we say good bye but sometimes we don’t wish to come further or not. Here , poetic persona again going to his past.

   At the end of the poem father  wish to come back to his past.  he wants to come back to his childhood.

Here, also we may say that poet wish to come back to his past and childhood.

At the last line,

“Once Upon Time When I Was Like You”