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The interpretation of Christopher Okigbo's poetry remains deeply controversial more than forty years after his death. The poet himself did not help matters by telling interviewers that he did not ever set tiffany necklaces on sale out to communicate meanings, but to make music. This paper investigates Okigbo's conception of the music of poetry and opens a new approach to the poet's work. It argues, through a close reading of two difficult poems of the 1962-66 period, that Okigbo's poetics did not prevent him from engaging deeply with the realities of his experience.

In January 1962, Christopher Okigbo (1932-67) moved his home from the enugu tiffany earrings sale campus of the university of Nigeria in eastern Nigeria to the Western Nigerian capital of Ibadan. He took with him the completed typescript of his debut volume of verse Heavensgate together with many draft poems that were later to be collected in Siren Limits and Fragments out of the Deluge. The three slim collections were all published at different times in 1962. With the appearance of Heavensgate, Okigbo's reputation as a foremost lyric poet was immediately established.

That recognition rested on his demonstrated ability to create simple musical phrases each tiffany for sale accompanied by a haunting visual image, to vary the phrase over a span of about sixteen lines and bind the lines firmly together with broken cadences and broken rhythms.

The traditional akewi makes up reduced tiffany pendants praise names to describe the elephant. He has no message to convey accessible or obscure. We already know everything he tells us about elephants and we are not looking for new information. Despite its clarity, his language is totally inventive and almost untranslatable. He creates novelty not in what he says but in his way of saying it. He creates in fact only to the extent in which the style of the saying strips the film of familiarity away from the subject and brings the reader up close to an obscene density of experience that is never fully exhausted.

essentially, he makes up a series sale tiffany necklaces of hyperboles, each phrase an exclamation, an exorcist's shout, a semantic coinage new minted, to invoke the unknown presence. The elephant of the poem is an imaginative creation: oro (doom), ogiyan (monster), oni'gbo (forester), ogbologbo adete (ancient leper), iku (death), Laaye, Otiko, oriiribobo, odudu-moramora. The list is potentially endless in the search for expressive inventions to gesture at the brute nameless fact that is always far beyond the limitations of its names.

Lexical and semantic forms break down in the attempt to convey the enormity and mystery of the real. mallarm¨¦ did not go far enough. He needed to postulate that even when the poet wishes to give the experience of a known object, he could not do so by naming it. Professional poets of the African tradition, as Okigbo heard and read them, were technically not much different from eliot and the French symbolists. Those who praised Okigbo's verse pamphleteering during the 1966 crisis clearly thought that he shop for tiffany accessories valued the oriki and the town crier highly. But that was not the case. The craft of the traditional artisan in words falls within the category of speech craft that Okigbo dismissed as "platform poetry" in the interview that he gave to marjory Whitelaw. To examine Okigbo's approach to his vocation in mid 1966, we turn now to the last major poem he wrote at the time, "elegy of the Wind."

Okigbo adds a military motif to this description in "Lament of the masks" when he speaks of the elephant as "earth tremor of the giant silver necklaces iron steps of detonators." In "elegy for Alto," the motif is used in derision against politicians who in collusion with soldiers sneak into power with "giant hidden steps of howitzers and detonators." Gradually the motif is stylized until in "Silent Sisters" it is the ideogram for brute destructiveness. It has already been suggested that Okigbo intends in this passage to equate moloch's blood lust with the blood lust of martyr-making Jehovah and the brutality of political repression. It is against the inscrutable agency of these malignant forces that the muses raise their voices in poetry that is also a criticism of life.

Okigbo's poetry in 1962-64 required the utmost intellectual effort. He did not write spontaneously letting his emotions flow with lyrical ease or recollect his experiences in tranquility. He sat at his desk day after day working to master the techniques of famous twentieth-century practitioners: Pound, eliot, Lorca, Neruda, Jiminez, C¨¦saire, Senghor, Brutus, u'Tamsi, and Tagore, but most of all of the nineteenth-century legend mallarm¨¦. He wanted to be among the best and the most formidable and brought only a few poems to completion. Predictably the demand for perfection was its silver pendants own defeat.

"Silent Sisters" is a typical product of Ibadan in the mid-1960s. It shares with Wole Soyinka's The Interpreters and The Road, with Demas Nwoko's canvasses, Susan Wenger's batiks and Denis Williams's Other Leopards an ambitious intellectual silver rings quality. These works speak of an optimistic new Nigeria ready at the dawn of independence to take possession of the great legacies of the world and to add to them. The interest in experimental techniques is typical of that milieu and of a poet who always loved the exceptional.

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