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A Stylistic Analysis Of Selected Niyi Osundare’s Socio-political Poetry
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1.5 SCOPE OF THE STUDY
The scope of the study shall be
limited to stylistics analysis using the features of cohesion ,
graphology, phonology, pragmatics and lexico-semantics in analyzing Niyi
Osundare’s selected socio political poems which are: The Politician’s
two mouths, A Villager’s Protest, Eating with all fingers, Eating
Tomorrow’s Yam In “village Voicesâ€. Forest Echoes and They too are the
Earth in “the Eyes of the Earth.’
1.6 THE BIOGRAPHY OF THE POET (NIYI OSUNDARE)
Niyi
Osundare was born in 1947 in Ikere Ekiti, Ekiti State. Nigeria. He is a
prolific poet, dramatist and literary critic. He gained his degree at
the University of Ibadan (B.A), his masters degree in the university of
Leeds and his PhD in York university, Canada in 1997. Niyi Osundare has
always been a vehement champion of right to freedom of speech and he has
a strong believe in the power of words saying “to alter is to utterâ€.
Osundare is renowned for his commitment to socially relevant art and
artistic activism .He has written several letters to former president of
Nigeria (Olusegun Obasanjo) whom Osundare had often publicly
criticized. He believes that there is no choice for Africa poets but to
be political. He is a holder of numerous awards for his poetry as well
as the Falcons Nichol award for excellence in poetry, creativity
combined with significant contributions of human right in Africa.
So
far, Niyi Osundare has been a very successful playwright, columnist,
literary critics and Emergent writer whose pieces are socio-politically
inclined.
Biography from WIKIPEDIA.
1.7 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
We
shall attempt a brief review of existing materials or body of knowledge
in our chosen theory, it various definitions by scholars and the
corresponding stylistics element shall be expounded in the next chapter.
In
the chapter that follows, there shall be the analysis of the data i.e.
the application of the theory on the data. The data are: selected socio
political poems in “Village Voices†and The Eyes of the Earth. Niyi
Osundare
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]Language is a vital medium through which human beings express themselves. It is used by its speakers to achieve diverse purposes such as reprimanding, encouraging, admiring, and persuading. Writers also use language to achieve their purposes and it is observed that their writings are attention catching, and thought provoking.It is against this background that a stylistic analysis of selected socio-political poems of Niyi Osundare was conducted to discover their constituent which ... Continue reading---
