 | Catherine Lynette Innes - 1992 - 224 Seiten
...first son. It was not the mad logic of the Trinity which captivated him. He did not understand it. It was the poetry of the new religion, something felt...and persistent question that haunted his young soul - the question of the twins crying in the bush and the question of Ikemefuna who was killed. He felt... | |
 | C. D. Narasimhaiah - 1994 - 310 Seiten
...mad... But there was a young lad who had been captivated. His name was Nwoye, Okonkwo's first son...It was the poetry of the new religion, something felt...marrow. The hymn about brothers who sat in darkness and fear seemed to answer a vague and persistent question that haunted his young soul — the question... | |
 | Lee Quinby - 1995 - 478 Seiten
...satisfactorily to his own difference and issues. For him, the "poetry of the new religion" appears to "answer a vague and persistent question that haunted" his "young soul: the question of the twins crying in the bush and the question of Ikemefuna who was killed" (137). Nneka... | |
 | Chinua Achebe - 1996 - 212 Seiten
...Okonkwo's first son. It was not the mad logic of the Trinity that captivated him. He did not understand it. It was the poetry of the new religion, something felt...and persistent question that haunted his young soul - the question of the twins crying in the bush and the question of Ikemefuna who was killed. He felt... | |
 | P. J. Marshall - 2001 - 404 Seiten
...who sees himself as the embodiment cr old lgbo virtues, is driven to suicide. But his young son finds 'the poetry of the new religion, something felt in the marrow. The words of the hymn were like the drops of frozen rain melting on the dry palate of the panting earth.'... | |
 | Sue Hosking, Dianne Schwerdt - 1999 - 228 Seiten
...accommodate his needs as an individual. What attracts Nwoye is not 'the mad logic of the Trinity' but the poetry of the new religion, something felt in...and persistent question that haunted his young soul -the question of the twins crying in the bush and the question oflkemefuna who was killed. He felt... | |
 | Patrick Colm Hogan - 2000 - 384 Seiten
...twins, the sacrifice of Ikemefuna at the mysterious command of the oracle. For Nwoye, Christianity "seemed to answer a vague and persistent question that haunted his young soul — the question of the twins crying in the bush and the question of Ikemefuna who was killed" (151-52).... | |
 | Abiola Irele - 2001 - 324 Seiten
...responding: It was not the mad logic of the Trinity that captivated him. He did not understand it. It was the poetry of the new religion, something felt...sat in darkness and in fear seemed to answer a vague persistent question that haunted his young soul — the question of the twins crying in the bush and... | |
 | David Lee Miller - 2003 - 268 Seiten
...poetry of the new religion, something felt in the marThe hymn about the brothers who sat in darkness and fear seemed to answer a vague and persistent question that haunted his young soul—the question of the twins crying in the bush and the question of Ikemefuna who was killed. He... | |
 | Isidore Okpewho - 2003 - 284 Seiten
...points out: "It was not the mad logic of the Trinity that captivated [Nwoye]. He did not understand it. It was the poetry of the new religion, something felt in the marrow" (104). On the personal and political levels, Achebe's presentation of women within Igbo society can... | |
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He did not understand it. It was the poetry of the new religion, something felt in the marrow. The hymn about brothers who sat in darkness and in fear seemed to answer a vague and persistent question that haunted his young soul — the question of the... 
