A STRUCTURALIST EXPLORATION OF ADA AGADA’S INTIMATIONS

Abstract

This study investigates Ada Agada’s structuralists approach in Intimations. This is because to the best of our knowledge, no writer has before now done a critical work on the anthology. It becomes pertinent therefore to fill this intellectual vacuum by using structuralism as a literary theory. The study shows that poetry has always responded to the challenges of society. In Africa, one of the factors that have impacted so much on the well-being of the people is their poetic experience. In this study, therefore, Agada’ personal anthology has been used to show how poetry has reflected the African experience using structuralism as a literary theory. The key finding is that Agada’s text’s claim to universality and his neglect of specificity constitutes his major poetic strength. The paper concludes that, viewed from structuralist lenses, Intimations evokes a concentrated imaginative experience.