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30 Ιουν 2021 · Poet's Introduction; Wole Soyinka, Civilian, and Soldier. One of the most prominent post-colonial literary figures, Wole Soyinka, a Nigerian poet, novelist, and playwright, was awarded Nobel Prize in literature.
the most important artistic product of the Nigerian Civil War, Soyinka attempted a more direct idiom and thereby produced poems of remarkable power and intensity.
During the civil war in Nigeria, Soyinka appealed in an article for cease-fire. For this he was arrested in 1967, accused of conspiring with the Biafra rebels, and was held as a political prisoner for 22 months until 1969. Soyinka has published about 20 works: drama, novels and poetry.
Civilian and Soldier by Wole Soyinka. My apparition rose from the fall of lead, Declared, 'I am a civilian.'. It only served. To aggravate your fright. For how could I. Have risen, a being of this world, in that hour. Of impartial death! And I thought also: nor is.
Soyinka uses the motif of the journey through hell, and the myth of Orpheus in particular, to articulate the traumatic encounter with a violent and repressive postcolonial regime.
1. The poem "Civilian and Soldier" by Wole Soyinka explores the relationship between a hesitant soldier and an ordinary civilian during the Nigerian Civil War. 2. The civilian speaker tries to frighten the soldier by imagining rising from the dead after being shot and evaluating what would happen if their roles were reversed. 3.
Soyinka's homeland, a scant six years of freedom from colonial rule had brought political instability and venality in high places, followed by a military coup and civil violence that was destined to escalate into open
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