REVIEW OF "A BOOK THAT NEVER DIES I"

The first of the three poems of "A BOOK THAT NEVER DIES" also known as "THE MYTH OF THE RAIN-MAKER" is a narrative poem by J.Y.Frimpong]. It was released on 1 November 2013 on online magazines. The poem combines the Biblical story of the Tower of Babel and also the Akan myth of the origin of the rainy season in a very conniving way.
"A BOOK THAT NEVER DIES I" is heavily influenced by "ONE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHT" which is also known as "ARABIAN NIGHT." This is J.Y.Frimpong's longest poem ever to have been composed; considering the fact that he is very economical with his lines. This poem has 49 lines; 7 stanzas with 7 lines.

Synopsis

"THE MYTH OF THE RAIN-MAKER" follows an unnamed character who tries to explain to his nephew a story about "Why God lives so far from man". At the end of the poem, instead of answering his nephew's question, he evasively tells his nephew about "THE TALE OF THE RAIN-MAKER." The poem actually starts when he begins to recounts tales as told in a certain book called "A BOOK THAT NEVER DIES." In the narrator, it is made known that God once had a wife who died when the tower of Babel was been built. And per the narration, it is the reason why God destroyed the tower as opposed to popular story being told in the Bible.
After the destruction of this temple, God buried his wife in a casket which he kept under his bed for daily remembrance. Whenever God pulled the casket out of his bed and opens it, he begins to cry and this translates to rain on Earth. When he sneezes during his tears, it translates to thunder on Earth. The problem that men began to face with this action of God was that it was becoming over frequent. Man therefore made a "wager" with God that for the sake for man's perpetual survival then they implore God to remember his wife only at a specific period in the year and this gave birth to the creation of two seasons: dry season and the wet season.
However the nephew does not see the relationship between the question which he earlier asked about the reasons why God lives so far away from man. His uncle then replies him that he will continue the story of the rain-maker which will later explain the question he asked. Although his nephew earlier resisted this plea for reasons known to him, a compromise is set that yes his cousin would tell him about the "myth of the clouds" another day.

Analysis

J.Y.Frimpong wrote the poem as a narrative with intentional Biblical allusions and didactism . The main theme of the poem is that of death, love and compromise. The narrator experiences two kinds of prejudices; evasiveness, begging of the question and deceitfulness. The nature of "A BOOK THAT NEVER DIES" can not be substantiated because of its mythical and unavailable nature.
LANGUAGE: The poem is basically made up of simple words, it is not complex in construction. It is a very direct narration without hidden meaning. It can be read and understood by anyone. However the Biblical allusion of The Tower of Babel may give it a complex look especially if the reader isn't already familiar with that topic.

OVERALL RATING: 81.00%. A+

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"THE THREE TRIANGLES on the cover art of "A BOOK THAT NEVER DIES I"

The number "3" is the most unusual number in this world. For instance Photius observes that the Triad is the first odd number in energy, is the first perfect number, and is a middle and analogy.

Also, the Pythagoreans referred it to Physiology; it is the cause of all that has the triple dimension.

It is also the cause of good counsel, intelligence, and knowledge, and is a Mistress of Music, mistress also of Geometry, possesses authority in whatever pertains to Astronomy and the nature and knowledge of the heavenly bodies, connects and leads them into effects.

In Mythology it is referred by Nicomachus to:

1. Saturn, Time, past, present, and future. 2. Latona. 3. The Horn of Amalthea, the nurse of Jupiter. 4. Polyhymnia, among the Muses.

Number being more increased by multiplication than it is by addition, the number 3 is, properly speaking, the first number, as neither the Dyad nor Monad are so increased.

It is a "Middle and Analogy," because all comparisons consist of three terms, at least; and analogies were called by the ancients "middles."

It was considered the Mistress of Geometry because the triangle is the principal of Figures.

With. regard to the Heavenly bodies, the number Three is important; there are 3 quaternions of the celestial signs, the fixed, the movable, and the common.

In every Zodiacal sign also there are 3 faces, and 3.

Why my sudden interest in the number "3". The answer to this is very very simple. Yesterday, I was very overwhelmed at the bad responses I got from the cover art of my upcoming poem "A BOOK THAT NEVER DIES I (the myth of the rain-maker). Not only do I find it as ridiculous, I found some of the comment very pathetic indeed. The cover art of "A BOOK THAT NEVER DIES I" is comprised of 3 TRIANGLES. The meaning of the cover is drawn from the inspiration of the number 3.

First of all, the triangles in the cover art is barely a representation of "mediation." The triangle is also a representation of Bowen's triangle which talks about the importance of the "3rd person". Indeed, the number 3 and the "TRIANGLE" are two of the most powerful objects in the world.

In Ezekiel xiv. v. 14 mentions 3 men who saw a creation, destruction, and a restoration; Noah of the whole world, Daniel of the Jewish world Jerusalem, and Job of his. personal world. The poem talks about three kinds of ends, if we are to make extensions from the scripture above. Indeed, "A BOOK THAT NEVER DIES I" will probably to me will never die because it talks about the world before time, a world in time and the world after time.

The number "3" also represents completes as seen in "THE HOLY TRINITY", the "Traveler's Compasses" among others. This poem completes me and therefore the cover art is a mere symbolism of completion.

It also represents the three Gifts of Grace "FAITH, HOPE and LOVE".

Also, as an Asante, I have been taught through oral traditions that the nature of man is in "THREE FOLDS" and they are "the body, soul and spirit. Man can only be whole if he/she has these three folds imbued in him or her.

The cover art represents the three fold nature of temptation "
"The lust of the flesh."
"The lust of the eyes."
"The pride of life."

It also represents the man's three GREATEST enemy "the World, the Flesh, and the Devil"

It also represents the predictive nature of God. "God is love", "God is spirit", "God is light."

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A BOOK THAT NEVER DIES I (THE MYTH OF THE RAIN-MAKER)

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Cover art to my upcoming poem "A BOOK THAT NEVER DIES I"

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REVIEW: J.Y.Frimpong - EXTRATERRESTRIAL

RELEASE DATE: 4TH OCTOBER, 2013

AUTHOR: J.Y.FRIMPONG

THEME: SUPER-COSMIC LOVE

STYLE: Sonnet

Extraterrestrial is the direct sibling of LIVING TO DIE in the sense that whilst LIVING TO DIE "confuses" the theme of love and death in a cold sniveling way, Extraterrestrial rather talks about a cold sniveling kind of love: the unstable love of an alien.

The kind of love which causes people to wonder why and how someone would get so attached to the love of an alien. Here answers are given in the sense that, the narrator which the long anticipated main character, Beyonville of the yet to be published book "A BOOK THAT NEVER DIES II comes back to life to fulfill his devilish ambitions. In "EXTRATERRESTIAL", the dead character through the help of an alien comes back to life through Machiavellian means. His means of getting back from the dead is rather an obscure one. Maybe to continue his sinister acts. For Beyonville to come back to life again, he needs the power of an extraterrestrial. 

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