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This paper is an ecocritical study of Tanure Ojaide's Delta Blues. The study brings to bare the analysis of language use, symbols and images employed by the poet to establish the mood and tone infused in the message and the vision of the poet. In doing so, the purpose of the study is to analyze the ecological degradation as it affects the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. The Ecocriticism model is adopted as a theoretical model of analysis for the study. The study shows how the poet through images and symbols captures the human, political and environmental degradations in the region. Arising from the findings, the study recommends that the environment should be properly guarded to reduce the level of degradation in the region. The socio-political activities should be adequately improved to reduce the high level of marginalization, which the people of the region have been subjected to. The environmental experts should collaborate with government agencies to reduce the oil spillage, gas flaring among other environmentally adverse activities, which have affected the lives of the people in the region. |
