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- Title
RELIGION AND MYTH AS POETIC RESOURCES: A STUDY OF CHRISTOPHER OKIGBO'S LABYRINTHS WITH PATH OF THUNDER AND BATE BESONG'S DISGRACE: AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NARCISSUS.
- Authors
Edwin, Tem
- Abstract
This article studies the selected poetry of Christopher Okigbo and Bate Besong by focusing on their exploration of religion and myth as creative resource. The paper argues that Okigbo and Besong, highly gifted poets, were able to blend these aspects from both domestic and foreign backgrounds in a manner that rendered their poetry provocative and sublime. They were revolutionary not only from the ideological standpoint, but in their ability to switch abruptly to distant cultures that rendered their poetry conceptually dense.
- Subjects
RELIGION &; poetry; LITERATURE &; myth; AESTHETICS; AFRICAN poetry; OKIGBO, Christopher, 1932-1967; BESONG, Bate
- Publication
Literary Endeavour, 2017, Vol 8, Issue 4, p1
- ISSN
0976-299X
- Publication type
Article