The philosophical underpinnings of composition writing can be traced to Edgar Allan Poe artistic works
of poetry that dominated American poetry in the 19th century and Walt Whitman 20th century poetry in
Europe. Similar to a poem that does not deliver excitement to the audience a composition should equally
balance between the success with the audience and the critical taste. A further reflection on four theories
of philosophy of compositions gives an insight to this philosophical foundation: the expressive theory,
which places emphasis on the writer; the mimetic theory, which emphasizes correspondence with
reality; the rhetorical theory, which focuses on the effect to the reader and lastly the formalist theory
which emphasizes traits internal to the work. More emphasis has been put on five characteristics of a
philosophical paper, which depicts philosophical argumentation thus qualifying Kiswahili composition
writing to be philosophical. In support of this, composition is not a manifest of either accident or
intuition; it is work that proceeds step by step to its completion, with the precision and rigid consequence
of a mathematical problem.
