“Through a Bending Light”: Ben Okri’s Poetic Commitment
Ben Okri’s relation to commitment is complex, for he rejects any direct association between writers and specific causes (although he has spoken out when necessary, as in his defense of Ken Saro-Wiwa). This article examines Okri’s poetry, in particular the poems collected in Wild, in the light of a v...
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2021
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| Online pristup: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Sažetak: | Ben Okri’s relation to commitment is complex, for he rejects any direct association between writers and specific causes (although he has spoken out when necessary, as in his defense of Ken Saro-Wiwa). This article examines Okri’s poetry, in particular the poems collected in Wild, in the light of a vision of artistic commitment which owes much to his interest in the Greek and Roman classics and which suggests a comparison with other poets like W. B. Yeats who have treated worldly commitment in terms of the paradoxical relation between political engagement and aesthetic distance. |
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