K.E. Ntsane's poetry in context

Abstract

Majakane and Keiting ya dihele are satires aimed at Christians. In Keiting the artificial boundaries set by human nature are ridiculed and condemned through the use of dramatic irony, the ironic situation, verbal irony and irony of fate. The poem is like a living picture or a mirror in which man realizes his own false values, hypocrisy, false convictions, pretended faith and doleful failure. Although Ntsane is satiric throughout these poems, he ends on a sober note. In Majakane, e.g., he pities man and his weakness against the devil. In both these poems, the reader is forced to witness a truth he habitually ignores.