The necessity and implications of creative power or poetic authority in Wole Soyinka and Okot p’Bitek.

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dc.contributor.authorOpali, Fred
dc.date.accessioned2009-11-30T09:14:34Z
dc.date.available2009-11-30T09:14:34Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.description.abstractWole Soyinka and Okot p’Bitek see Ogun and Lawino as their deities without whose blessing they cannot create poetry. My paper treats the case in which Soyinka ands Okot p’Bitek in their anxiety, pursue the creative tradition practised by the major English Romantics. In the same vein they express the need to attain authority to create poetry before beginning to speak for and on behalf of their trapped societies. As its theoretical base, the paper is informed by intertextuality as espoused especially by Harold Bloom and Jonathan Culler in their theories of influence. The paper begins by a brief presentation of the contexts that inform and significantly enrich the poetry of Soyinka and p’Bitek. From this position, the paper then considers the process, necessity, and implications of attaining creative power or poetic authority and concludes by examining the necessity in the mind of the poet-initiate in the creative process of a presence or equivalence. It observes that it is only creative artists in this condition who can attain poetic authority. Throughout the paper, the extent to which Soyinka and Okot p’Bitek extend the range of romantic continuity and intra-poetic relations in their poetry is indicated. The paper concludes by giving a brief evaluation of the Romantic inclination that the two poets display.en_US
dc.identifier.citationOpali, F. (2009). The necessity and implications of creative power or poetic authority in Wole Soyinka and Okot p’Bitek. Nawa Journal of Language and Communication 1(2), 31-48.
dc.identifier.issn1993-3885.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10628/14
dc.publisherNUST, Department of Communication.
dc.subjectSoyinka, Wole, 1934-present - Poetic works
dc.subjectp'Bitek, Okot, 1931-1982 - Poetic works
dc.subjectNigerian poetry
dc.subjectPortrayal of Gods in literature
dc.subjectGods in literature
dc.subjectPoetic authority
dc.subjectCreative power and ability
dc.titleThe necessity and implications of creative power or poetic authority in Wole Soyinka and Okot p’Bitek.en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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