Every Stone That turns analysis: Thomas Sukutai Bvuma

Themes in Every Stone That Turns

1: War and anguish/Liberation struggle

Poems:

• -Private Affair
• -Mafaiti
• -The mirror that stares back
• -Farewell
• -Free sod for my sister

2: Relationships

Poems:

• -How can l weep
• -The three sisters
• -You retired to the anthill
• -Searching for mother
• -The real poetry
• -Marrow
• -Neither fruit nor shelter
• -Years after
• -The baby who came too early

3: Disillusionment with life

Poems:

• -The snake never turns
• -Stub in the background

4: Betrayal/ disappointment

Poems:

• -Yeukai
• -Splintered Calabash
• -Every stone that’s turns
• -You will never know
• –Two rivers embraced
• -Warming another man’s groin

5: Post independence betrayal

Poems:

• -Neither fruit nor shelter
• -Years after
• -Petals of the unknown
• -We surrendered our balls
• -The she’ll
• -Umbilical code bleeds

6: Independence

Poems:

• -Rufaro cheering ourselves
• -Uprooted tuber
• -Smile mother

7: Cultural aspects and identity

Poems:

• -Musi wa Tunya
• -Message in the stone
• -Smile mother
• -Death
• -Good citizen
• -You retired to the anthill