Songs Of Lawino And Ocol Analysis

[Gaetane Eary]

Thispaper focuses on the analysis of religious satire in Song of Lawino. The study occasionally refers to Okots life history and ideological inclinations and the review of related literature giveng background information that clarifies Okot pBiteks writing as a product of a rich Acholi oral tradition. While a lot has been written on Okots creative works, little attention has been given to the use of satire. The study therefore, identifies and evaluates Okots use of satire in Song of Lawino determines the use of language to achieve satire in the text, and discusses how the author uses satire as a tool to share ideas and opinions on religious perspectives in the society. This study treats satire as the humorous criticism of human weaknesses and foibles and uses this parameter to identify it in the Song of Lawino. This is to throw light on the creative works of Okots and highlight circumstances that may have shaped him into a satirist. The upshot of all these is that the songs are appropriately contextualized with the ultimate finding that satire is an indigenous African phenomenon amply and ably deployed in Okots art.

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Burton, Felicita. "What is the impact of orality on Okot p'Bitek's "Song of Lawino"?" edited by eNotes Editorial, 21 June 2019, -poetry/questions/what-is-the-effect-of-orality-on-song-of-lawino-276682.

"Song of Lawino" shares with most oral epic the large scale form of anextended narrative poem. It is not an example of oral traditional epic, in thatit was composed by an single individual about a subject contemporary to thatwriter rather than looking back to an heroic age. It does, however, borrow someof the stylistic surface feature of oral poetry. It is composed in a simplerhythmic structure appropriate for public performance, uses repeated epithets,invokes stereotypes, and is structured agglutinatively, creating effects not bysubordination and analysis but by piling on layers of detail. Also like mostoral poetry, it is close to the human life world and makes its point viastriking example rather than abstraction.

Wofford, Lynnette. "What is the impact of orality on Okot p'Bitek's "Song of Lawino"?" edited by eNotes Editorial, 14 Sep. 2011, -poetry/questions/what-is-the-effect-of-orality-on-song-of-lawino-276682.

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