What is it about?
Despite human dread of death, Diala's poetry reconfigures death as a glorious becoming. The cyclic kinesis of birth, death and rebirth shows that death is also signals that point where life begins.
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Why is it important?
The essay makes a groundbreaking contribution to the study of Diala's poetry in its articulation of the eternal link between the different phases of human existence.
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That death need no longer to be feared but embraced is eternal truth which Diala's The Lure of Ash espouses.
Abba A. Abba
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This page is a summary of: Birth, death, and re-birth: The trope of eternal rejuvenation in Isidore Diala’s The Lure of Ash, The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, May 2018, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0021989418773138.
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