MAN ENDANGERED SPECIE: A STUDY OF PROFESSOR TONY AFEJUKU’S A GARDEN OF MOODS

Clement Chukwuka Idegwu

Department of English

College of Education, Agbor, Delta State

Email: idegwucc@yahoo.com

ABSTRACT

This paper is an attempt to explore Professor Tony Afejuku’s poetry:  A Garden of Moods, as the poets conscious attempt to portray man’s earthly journey as an inevitable exercise in futility.  It is my attempt to show how greatly incapacitated man is in a journey he is compelled to undertake.  To quote Adolf Hitler (2007) “My whole life has been nothing but one long struggle, and all that it takes to keep on in a wasted journey:  man on earth.  This truth:  the nothingness of life, Afejuku tries to explain, maintaining Richard M. Nixon’s (1993) postulation that “the truth should be brought out – no matter who was involved” (P. 176).  The thrust, of this piece, therefore, is to show that man on earth is a gathering of dirt in a waste paper bag.