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Christopher Okigbo’s poem “The Passage” displays a number of striking literary devices and stylistic techniques, including the following: Use of a trochee in place of an expected iamb at the...

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Christopher Okigbo

The poetry of Christopher Okigo, like the verse of other notable writers, arguably depends to a great degree on the interest created by its rhythms.  This is clearly the case, for instance,...

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Christopher Okigbo

Christoper Okigbo used multiple poetic devices in his poem Fragments Out of the Diluge. Within the text of the poem, one can find assonance, alliteration, repetition, and personification....

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Christopher Okigbo

The polemical stance of Elaine Fido in her essay “Okigbo's Labyrinths and the Context of Igbo Attitudes to the Female Principle” might be characterized in a number of ways, including the...

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Christopher Okigbo

In his essay "Christopher Okigbo and the Postcolonial Market of Memories," Maik Nwosu makes a number of arguments, many them expertly summed up by Nwosu in the “abstract” that precedes the...

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Christopher Okigbo

Okigbo's work was written after independence.

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Christopher Okigbo

Christopher Okigbo once suggested that the speaker of his poem titled “The Passage” resembles Orpheus, the famous figure of Greek myth and legend.  Some resemblances between Okigo’s speaker...

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