Cultural Study on “Abiku” - Wole Soyinka Poem

Adimasu Tumato
Abstract
Cultural Study on Wole Soyinka Poem is to analyze the cultural aspect used in the poem “Abiku”. Through search of aesthetic flavor of written or oral literature together with appreciating the beauty and way of life in particular culture, this analysis of poem is done to show Nigerian culture underlying in Wole Soyinka’s poem. This study is considered to be very important in entertaining the aesthetic pleasure of the poem “Abiku” and developing experience of reader, trainer and researchers in this area. The other one is acquiring literary knowledge gained through analysis on the basis of selected cultural study principle. To bring the intended result, I used the descriptive analytical study approach that uses textual analysis: some words, phrases, or verses- of the poem are cautiously selected as pertinent primary source of data. The reading of Abiku-Wole Soyinka poem is strong in diction, versification, allusion but easily understood, plainly structured and highly organized. When I come to points that indicate culture, first two verses show Yoruba women have culture of wearing bangles to themselves and their children. Culture of superstition of Ogbanje are in verses 3-4, growing and breeding culture is mentioned in verses 5-8, storytelling and belief in ancestral god are also in verses 13-16, and culture of mourning or burial ceremony and using traditional medicine revealed in verses 17-28 are some cultural aspects mentioned in the poem.
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