WOLE SOYINKA: Politics, Poetics and Postcolonialism

Poetry and versification: the burden of commitment  according to this meticulous scholar-critic, as Soyinka wrote these early ...

 Wole Soyinka take at least half a decade before it blossomed into a generally coherent and all-encompassing philosophy of li ...

Poetry and versification: the burden of commitment  the poet chooses to celebrate the dead sibling’s memory by investing the ...

 Wole Soyinka The gratuitous but also willful, deliberate evil suggested in snuffing light from the enveloping darkness of ni ...

Poetry and versification: the burden of commitment  aporetic, contradictory readings than anything we find in either poem. In ...

 Wole Soyinka N ́egritudinous poems in the fourth section of the volume titled “for women.” And this point applies as well to ...

Poetry and versification: the burden of commitment  rhetorical tropes from traditional Yoruba ritual chants, beliefs, practic ...

 Wole Soyinka To forestall a charge that this “simple” poetic reprise of a children’s propitiation song has been “over-read,” ...

Poetry and versification: the burden of commitment  short scene from Part Two ofMadmenis as good as any from these plays in i ...

 Wole Soyinka poems like “Dawn,” “The Hunchback of Dugbe,” “Luo Plains” and “Easter.” In the longer epic and narrative title ...

Poetry and versification: the burden of commitment  linked me to lingering, unresolved sensations of my first climb up Idanre ...

 Wole Soyinka “Idanre” is thus perhaps best approached not from the aesthetic and philosophical premises which undergird trad ...

Poetry and versification: the burden of commitment  more heroically creative, life-enhancing and selfless incarnations. The t ...

 Wole Soyinka following quote is fairly representative of the unintended poetic solecisms of this section: There are air-beam ...

Poetry and versification: the burden of commitment  from the repetitive cycle of destruction lies, after all, not with Ogun’s ...

 Wole Soyinka aetiological fiction of the coming of the iron age to Yorubaland reaching back and forward to universal myths o ...

Poetry and versification: the burden of commitment  written and published beforeA Shuttle in the Crypt. Indeed, inThe Road,th ...

 Wole Soyinka stress – a psyche on the brink of dissolution – is so deep that it defies and confounds “containment” by the ex ...

Poetry and versification: the burden of commitment  draw foul or poisoned water – imaged here as “bubbles of corruption, slud ...

 Wole Soyinka of couplets. The series of metaphors and images which substitute for “roots” in the eighteenth and nineteenth c ...