"Words as Bullets", Poetry as a Veritable Tool for Social Criticism and Reformation: A Study of Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo's Heart Songs and Waiting for Dawn

Abstract

Poetry is one of the genres of literature and has over the years found its best application and usage as a weapon, a tool for criticism with which poets mock and satirize societal actions, values and attitudes in the hopes of correcting and instilling in the people the right and ethical moral values