Phoenix, Volume 1Sri Lanka Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, 1990 - Commonwealth literature (English) |
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Page 7
... dead father in a week , if you go . It is just a death trap , Jaffna , you said so yourself yesterday . See what happened to Wije and Gunadasa ... where are they now with their heroics ? Dead . Ashes . And where are their families ...
... dead father in a week , if you go . It is just a death trap , Jaffna , you said so yourself yesterday . See what happened to Wije and Gunadasa ... where are they now with their heroics ? Dead . Ashes . And where are their families ...
Page 16
... dead ? ... she was thinking . All these dead like the man who was with her just now ? That hospital with its whitewashed walls , the nurses who hurried to and fro from that room , that huge wall clock - all these dead ? What has really ...
... dead ? ... she was thinking . All these dead like the man who was with her just now ? That hospital with its whitewashed walls , the nurses who hurried to and fro from that room , that huge wall clock - all these dead ? What has really ...
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... Dead tree , dead stream , dry field and he In silent partnership distil From common bare Eternity , By simple art of keeping still A cry , a streak of brown - white - blue A splash on water still as lead , And swiftly back to post where ...
... Dead tree , dead stream , dry field and he In silent partnership distil From common bare Eternity , By simple art of keeping still A cry , a streak of brown - white - blue A splash on water still as lead , And swiftly back to post where ...
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Achebe African almsgiving Australian back to South Bessie Head Biodun Jeyifo bird Botswana bourgeoisie Cloaked in night Colombo Coy Mistress creative writing criticism D. C. R. A. Goonetilleke dark dead Doris Lessing dramatist dreams English eyes Farewell to Babylon farmers father Fatunde Fatunde's felt Femi Osofisan Fire Dance Gaborone happy human Jaffna laughed leftocratic literary literature lived looked lore and reason lumber lore Maithri Maru Marxist metaphoric mind mother moves to kill never Nigeria night witches novels Obafemi's Omotoso Osofisan pain past Patrick Fernando Perhaps play playlet poem poet poetry political published Question of Power radical Rain Clouds Gather Raja Reggie Siriwardene revolutionary changes Robert Sobukwe Rushika Sarvan sense Serowe Severia Shiva Naipaul shout Sinhalese Siriwardena sleep smiled society Song South Africa Sowande Sri Lanka stood Tamils thaththa things thought University of Kelaniya vision voyages fulfill witches wrote