“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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openedition-oai:revues.org:ces_4959 https://doi.org/10.4000/ces.4959 urn:doi:10.4000/ces.4959 en https://journals.openedition.org/ces/4959 2021-07-08T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/dsyb https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ “Through a Bending Light”: Ben Okri’s Poetic Commitment Commonwealth Essays and Studies SEPC (Société d’études des pays du Commonwealth) info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2534-6695 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2270-0633 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ces Birat, Kathie 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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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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