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ABSTRACT
It is the duty of a poet to represent a spirit of change, both within the world of letters and beyond it. The conception of poetry is intimately linked to it mature conception of poetic beauty. Using formalistic approach, this essay examines emergent African satiric traditions in Odia Ofeimum’s A boiling Caracas and other poems and Kola Eke’s February 1976 and other poems. A comparison has been conducted on how the poets use different satirical elements to comment on the sociopolitical and sociocultural menace in the society. This research employs the qualitative research method to analyze and examine how satire is represented in the poems. The findings of this essay include how bad leadership, ethnicity and religion play part in the sociopolitical and sociocultural issues in the country, as portrayed in most of Ofeimum and Eke’s works. The essay concludes that man is the only mechanism that can proffer a solution to societal problems.
