AN EXPOSITION OF LITERARY AMPLIFICATION IN SELECTED POEMS OF ADÉBÁYỌ̀ FÁLÉTÍ

Abstract

Abstract

 This study tends to do the extensive exposition of literary amplification in selected poems of Adébáyọ̀ Fálétí, a renowned literary icon in Yorùbá land. There seems to be recurrent agglutinative foregrounding of poetic languages sporadically used in almost all Fálétí’s poetic works. This we termed literary amplification. It is so called because it expressively projects the emotional state of mind of the poet wherever it is found. This literary amplification goes beyond Yorùbá establish proverbs dissemble in the literary works. It surfaces randomly whenever the poet wishes to do vivid emotional discharge of amazement, surprise, fear and the extent to which the effect of something is felt. Just like Fálétí is indebted to Yorùbá oral institutions for the evergreen proverbs, epithets, allusions, anecdote and rhythmical dexterity, the study under consideration will also espouse the hidden oratory devices that enliven the rhetoric in Yorùbá language at the same time, figure out the instance of amplification as a literary appraisal criterion in Yorùbá studies. The work is approached from the viewpoint of structuralism, most especially Mukarousky; Roman Jacobson and Levis Straus, G. Messing (1979), who observed foregrounding of certain poetic language at two different axes organizational structure/paradigmatic axis or axis of selection, and structural patterning systematic axis or axes of combination. Truly, the examination of Fálétí’s poetic works reveals agglutinative structural pattering of poetic languages at the axis of selection also known as paradigmatic axis and organizational structure. Linguistically specking, the literary amplification is said to the end products of semantic repetition which Fálétí inherits from the fore litterateurs such as Fágúnwà and others. But his own is circumstantial, hence, the explanation of literary amplification from the angle of style as a situation because the term on is occasioned by emotional states of poetic personnel.