Leopold Sedar Sengor, the Senegalese most renowned black poet was
born in 1906 in Senegal. He completed his studies in the a Catholic
school in Dakar and Liberman College and in 1928 went to Paris to
pursue his higher education. He learned literature and philosophy in
Louis le Grand and Sorbonne University. In 1935, he was appointed
professor of Grammar in France.
He was a surrealist poet whose modem and very sophisticated poems
shrouded in specific French-African atmosphere, music, traditions and
legends. In this article, by using the microlecture method, first devised
by Jean Pierre Richard, and by analyzing some of Sedar Senghor"s
Ethiopian poems, his themes will be shown. In this way, the poet"s
ideas, will be depicted through the analysis of his use of similies,
metaphors, repetition of certain concepts, negritude, and Creole.