Symbols And Images As Poetic Techniques In South African Poetry, The Example Of Dennis Brutus And Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1       BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY             Symbolism is the use of symbols to represent ideas, this literary device is used by poets to create a mental picture in the mind of readers, it is also used to widen their reasoning faculties see Northrop Frye  “Anatomy of criticism” (1957) describes four types of symbol i.e Symbol as an image, a metaphor, a sign and it representation of  an  idea, this work is based on the symbolic image on  Frye (1957) with reference to the sociological archetypes used by the selected poets. An image is a mental representation of anythin…