Breaking fear in the body: A delve into the selected poems of Logan February’s In the Nude

Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto

Abstract


Over time, aesthetic shifts and changes. By the aforementioned,
in all ramifications, it has been the core of creativity for the
bettering and understanding and assimilation of human
relationships. The goal of this study is to identify
conceptualizations and lack of importance accorded to the
contexts of fear and body in poetry. This paper is majorly framed
and guided by the propositions by Paul Dumouchel and Barbara
H. Rosenwein. With history and experiences and the state of
violence and political upheavals reoccurring every day, why do
poems about fear and body matter? What are the exact factors
that constitute this kind of poems? Specifically, this study pays
attention to how Logan February has applied various forms and
techniques in the selected poems of his poetry collection In The
Nude to examine the contexts of fear and body, and as well as
avenues for breaking, overcoming and suppressing fear.

Keywords


Fear, Literature, Poetry, Body, Fear, Nigerian poetry, In The Nude, Logan February

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