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A Stylistic Analysis Of Selected Christopher Okigbo’s Socio-political Poetry
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Style is the manifestation of one’s personality. Every writer has a natural, linguistic and idiosyncratic way of expressing ideas that leads to the identification of style with man and his thought. The manipulation of words by a writer creates a distinct style through which he/she reaches out to the audience. This research work focused on a stylistic analysis of selected socio-political poems of Christopher Okigbo. This aims at identifying Okigbo’s unique use of language. Stylometrics was used as a theoretical framework for the study. The findings in this are that Okigbo’s poems begin with some words in capitalisation which are foregrounded to the theme of the poems. He makes use of elements like repetition, alliteration, rhyme, parallelism and so on which add musical colour and rhythm to his poems. It is also evident his poems are sometimes prophetic, ritualistic and often address socio-political issues from a universal perspective. The work found out that each of the linguistic choices has an identifiable function that is performed in the poem. The study concludes that Christopher Okigbo’s poems are musical in nature and highly figurative in language use.
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CHAPTER ONE - [ Total Page(s): 2 ]CHAPTER ONEGENERAL INTRODUCTION1.0 INTRODUCTIONThis
chapter serves as general introduction and includes background to the
study, the statement of the problem, as well as the scope and
delimitation of the study. Also, included in chapter one are the aim and
objectives of the study, significance of the study, limitations of the
study as well as the research design and a definition of terms.1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDYLanguage
use by individuals differs from one p ... Continue reading---
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CHAPTER ONE - [ Total Page(s): 2 ]CHAPTER ONEGENERAL INTRODUCTION1.0 INTRODUCTIONThis
chapter serves as general introduction and includes background to the
study, the statement of the problem, as well as the scope and
delimitation of the study. Also, included in chapter one are the aim and
objectives of the study, significance of the study, limitations of the
study as well as the research design and a definition of terms.1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDYLanguage
use by individuals differs from one p ... Continue reading---
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