Telephonic Conversation By Wole Soyinka

                    Telephonic Conversation

          

 INTRODUCTION       

                 Wole Soyinka was born on July 13, 1934, in Nigeria and educated in England. In 1986, the playwright and political activist became the first African to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. He dedicated his Nobel acceptance speech to Nelson Mandela. Soyinka has published hundreds of works, including drama, novels, essays and poetry, and colleges all over the world seek him out as a visiting professor.

Analysis of the poem "Telephonic Conversation"

           Here, the poem Telephonic Conversation by Wole Soyinka. In this poem Soyinka talk about the cultural gap between black and white. The telephone is like a mask because we can’t see the expression and the face is hidden so we can’t see the reality of people. Telephone also a medium to hide the person’s identity.

            However, we cam defined that the poem deals with the black man and white lady. The black man sharing idea. He is rich black man money is always power and power comes through the money. The white lady deals with the man and she was rich white lady. Black man they have money but he has nothing because he with white lady. Always white culture is portrait the black culture.

          The black man belongs to the third world nation and the white lady belongs to the first world nation. Also we can say that she was white lady so she was a power and patriarchal.  

 “force nation of white world”

            However, also we observe that the black man always wish to become a white.

            The poem “Telephonic Conversation” we can defined the location is different . the location of white people.  And the location of place is west African Sepia also we can say that the self-confession because something is hidden through the telephone conversation. We can’t see the what is reality of the people.

           At the end of the poem the reality of man is visible but here, mentality of white is rivil.