Wole Soyinka: An Introduction to His WritingGarland, 1986 - 339 pagina's |
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Pagina 8
... recalls Eliot's de- fence of his own equally metaphysical verse : " Complex subjects sometimes elicit from the ... recall his destiny as a “ lone deity , " and the poems " Of Birth and Death " recall Ogun's paradoxical personality as the ...
... recalls Eliot's de- fence of his own equally metaphysical verse : " Complex subjects sometimes elicit from the ... recall his destiny as a “ lone deity , " and the poems " Of Birth and Death " recall Ogun's paradoxical personality as the ...
Pagina 25
... recalls in a general statement the tradi- tional function of rain as a life - force symbol . It is rain's function to assuage the thirst of a parched tongue , says the stanza , and set it free from the forces that bind it to the dry ...
... recalls in a general statement the tradi- tional function of rain as a life - force symbol . It is rain's function to assuage the thirst of a parched tongue , says the stanza , and set it free from the forces that bind it to the dry ...
Pagina 69
... recalls Ogun's status as the god of the " metallic lore . " Ogun is " The Iron One " , the god of iron , and " the ... recalled in the image of sword and axe . In stanza eleven of this section , Ogun's sword is " an outer crescent of the ...
... recalls Ogun's status as the god of the " metallic lore . " Ogun is " The Iron One " , the god of iron , and " the ... recalled in the image of sword and axe . In stanza eleven of this section , Ogun's sword is " an outer crescent of the ...
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of Idanre | 3 |
The Laments | 37 |
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