Guys, I just heard from the radio that a study was done and proved that surfing the net too much lowers your attention span. The bad part is I do feel the effect and I noticed lately instead of reading text thoroughly and absorbing the information I merely skim and scan the page and don't get...
"Achebe specifically used contrast to compare the life of a mother living normally to the mother in his poem who faces a huge challenge in her life so us readers can see what each of them has to put up with."
Refugee mother and her child
by Chinua Achebe
No Madonna and Child could touch
that picture of a mother's tenderness
for a son she soon would have to forget.
The air was heavy with odours
of diarrhoea of unwashed children
with washed-out ribs and dried-up
bottoms struggling in laboured
steps...