How effective is the use of contrast in The Song of the Women of my...

Explanation

Sesay's Song of the Women of my Land'' examines the human condition, the suffering of women, oppression, pain, the ravages of time and death. Social criticism is at the heart of this poem. The poem further underscores the point that people die but artists or poets have the ability to preserve them in their art, for all eternity. Contrast is dominant in the poem and encompasses more in the use of metaphors and similes. They ploughed the terrain of their mindscape/ for a song