Yomi Oguntoyinbo Comments

The poem A Future Stolen by Yomi Oguntoyinbo is a poem written in three stanzas and sixteen lines. In Stanza one 'Bags of cowries travel abroad Through the back doors' The bags of cowries represent two things here, money and resources. This resources and materials which was left behind by our forefathers was being used to enriched sons from another land mysteriously. In stanza two and three The people's destiny changes during the course of things to come, generations unborn left with nothing but a future stolen. The writer uses literary terms in the poem A Future Stolen like simile 'Bags of cowries travel abroad through the back doors' 'As the night manoeuvres the day' Rhyme Thingamajig, Thingamabob and Thingy Symbolism It symbolized Black