Contending Absurdity; Analysing The Language Of Disillusionment In Esiaba Irobi's Selected Poems

INTRODUCTION This study is premised on the language of literature in general and language of poetry specifically. It derives from and is predicated on the seemingly developing trend of disillusionment in post-independence African literature. The researcher chooses poetry because “the commonly accepted notion [is] that poetry represents a vehicle through which one’s deepest and most distilled thoughts may be expressed,” (Matambirofa et al, The Problematics of a Feminist ontology, 2006: 87). Furthermore, Mazrui (2006) reminds us that of all literary forms of African literature, poetry is the mos…