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Poetic Style And Social Commitment In Niyi Osundare’s Songs Of The Marketplace
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ABSTRACT
This essay studies how oral performance constitutes the core poetic style employed by Niyi Osundare to project social commitment and vision in Songs of the Marketplace. It discusses how the poet’s deployment of oral performance makes his poetry more accessible to a larger audience than those of his predecessors. The pervasive theme of moral degeneration remains a serious concern in the selected poems. Like the oral traditional performance, Osundare employs rich Yoruba oral-literary devices in a way that is unique. His poetic style has a clearly defined concept and role of concentizing the masses toward revolutionary consciousness. The poem is central to the depiction of the polemics of governance and politics in Nigerian society. In a way, the poem raises hope of redemption from the decadent situation that has eaten deep into the fabric of social existence.
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CHAPTER ONE - [ Total Page(s): 2 ]THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK The paper adopts Marxist theory as a theoretical approach. As a utilitarian perspective of literature and society, Marxist ideology identifies social and economic factors in the conceptualization of the relationship between the bourgeois and the proletariat. Marxist philosophy upholds that a capitalist society perpetuates oppression of the less privileged class. The Marxist critic thus reacts to the various strata of social and moral decadence. The theory criti ... Continue reading---
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CHAPTER ONE - [ Total Page(s): 2 ]THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK The paper adopts Marxist theory as a theoretical approach. As a utilitarian perspective of literature and society, Marxist ideology identifies social and economic factors in the conceptualization of the relationship between the bourgeois and the proletariat. Marxist philosophy upholds that a capitalist society perpetuates oppression of the less privileged class. The Marxist critic thus reacts to the various strata of social and moral decadence. The theory criti ... Continue reading---
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