Kwara State University
Saeedat ALIYU
Designation: Senior Lecturer
Department: Linguistics African and European Languages
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| 1 | Rhetorical anthropomorphism in selected Niger Delta poetry |
This paper investigates anthropomorphism as a literary aesthetic that fosters consciousness of the despoliation of the natural environment through humanistic depictions of nonhuman and natural phenomena. With emphasis on Joe Ushie’s Hill Songs (2000) and Albert Otto’s Letters from the Earth (2007), this study posits that the engagement with the aesthetic in African poetry arises from three factors. First, it is an imprint from the traditional African spiritualisation of nature. Second, it is an indication of the poets’ connection to, and inseparability from, their environment; and third, it is a strategy to create familiar models through which images of environmental despoliation can be interpreted. The study concludes that rhetorical anthropomorphism promotes a non-mechanistic worldview that suggests and foregrounds moral connotations of the environment. KEYWORDS: anthropomorphism, aesthetics, environmental consciousness, Niger delta. | Saeedat Bolajoko Aliyu (Ph.D.) | Vol. 27. 111-126. | Alore: Ilorin Journal of the Humanities. University of Ilorin, Ilorin. ISSN: 0794-4551 | 2018-01-01 | ||