Three Regions, One Message: A Comparative Analysis of Poems from Africa, the United States of America and British Guiana
Abstract
Comparative Literature brings about a sense of the unity of knowledge.
for understanding and adaptation without necessitating elimination of opposing views or the absolute
privileging of one theoretical position, thus the differences and similarities within and across literary
genres are perceived.
the message in these genres. This paper, therefore seeks to conduct a comparative analysis of six
selected poems, with an aim of establishing the elements of comparison, inclu
themes and styles, with a leaning on the theoretical
Projected arguments by various comparative literature critics are featured to help decipher the
message in the poems