Big Words Vocabularies are mouth farts. Big words that just makes your
tongue lash, and gives our mouth an orgasmic feeling, when you speak,
frankly, misplaced and unnecessary. No matter what is said, communication is the most paramount and that can’t happen when the next person don’t understand what
is being said. Never forget that
the important essence
of telling a person what you want is getting a feedback from the person
you are talking to, but that can't happen when the person don’t
understand you.
Wole Soyinka is a prolific writer, a Nobel laureate for Christ sake a demigod of literature (leaving
the god status for Lawrence, Dickens) but still he is a wonderful writer but
yes the almighty but he tends to lean to a more grammatical usage for simple
expression in most of his work,hereby failing to create the imagery in the readers
even ( i stand uprightly to be corrected) though our thoughts might differ, among my close circle we still prefer Achebe to him,
For me Literature means expressing feelings in writing as simple as possible
understanding that the next person might not be as well read as you and you
will have to tone it down for communication to take place, Recently some people
have been getting the notion that a literary work of art should confuse the
reader or should only be understood by the writer and be as enigmatic as
possible to create a reeling of intelligence and deeper level
of consciousness on the part of the artist or the reader, a
work of art should rather feel like a mirror reflecting to others when they read
it.
Sometimes many modern writers make use Victorian English as the diction
they use for their work of art, or poem (which truly is none of my business) which frankly i think is an archaic language unless you
are a rhyme freak who wants there to rhyme with before, we should do away with
those complexities because all you are in a bid to say is the same didactic which is :
Good is good, bad is bad, and live a good life and all the lessons in the between. In my own argument a man like you, developed that use of English why do you feel you can't out think him or form your own version. or who is to say that you have to sound complex, and archaic all the time.
But believe when I say you can still write what you want to
write with a child as the implied reader and still be poetic (whatever that
means) teach a person, express your feelings in the simplest form thereby making
your feelings readable understandable, relatable, and almost touchable,and the
child, the old man, and the people who go through these same things can relate
to our work, of art in the simplest form of their lingua franca and your work
end up being useful and not a useless and laughable phlegm of mental masturbation
By Victor Samuel
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