INDUSTRIALIZATION

What a busy moment?

What a busy area?

Where hustlers never relent

Like a working ant

Oh! Survival of the fittest

A state of honour

Blessed with Natural resources

Rivers State we salute

Supplying the nation’s Crucial needs

Crude oil in abundance

Your rivals supply Crude oil

But yours with unique difference

Long lives Rivers State

Long lives Federal Republic of Nigeria

Long live African

Long live the nations of the world

Written by: Onyia Emeka Harford

DESCRIPTION:  The poem is a Nigerian one describing the status of a State that is blessed with the world’s needed mineral resources that improve every economy of the world. Crude oil we all know is one of the economical valued mineral all over the globe which nations invest their resources most to acquire for easy sustenance of automobiles and for generation of heat. So it is pointing at the need to protect the state and supply their needs so that there will be improvement on every sector of the economy as the worker will work hard to meet the demands of the people of the nations toward same Crude Oil.

From line 1-4: The poet describe the state as a busy area where hustlers will never cease to relent to work like a working ant, demonstrating the adjectival quality of their manner of doing the business which he established with the figure of speech called simile. Simile as a figure of speech uses “as” and “like” to establish a comparison. Here the poet said that they are doing the work “like a working ant”.

From line 5-8:  The poet begins by attributing honour to the state by saying that is a competitive environment where the workers and investors strife to make a difference. The poet also let us to know that the state is blessed with particular natural resources. And he continues to attribute human attribute to the state being an abstract name of a place “by saluting the state” which is a figure of speech known as personification meaning giving human quality to an inanimate object.

From line 9-12: The poet begins by explaining the economic important of this state’s natural resources which contribute much to development of the nations of the world. Trying to express that though Organization of African Exporting countries (OPEC)  like Saudi Arabia are blessed with the same Crude oil, but River State Crude oil have a difference from theirs which make other nations of the world demands for it

From line 13-16:  The poet concludes with a congratulatory message to the state, Federal republic of Nigeria, African Nations, and Nations of the world.

WRITER/PUBLISHER: ONYIA EMEKA HARFORD

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