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An Analysis of “Chimes of Slience” Wole Soyinka is a Nigerian playwright, and the author of the prose poem “Chimes of Silence”. In order to describe his experience in solitary confinement Soyinka uses descriptive language involving his vision to better enlighten the reader to his experience. The most dramatic passages in “Chimes of Silence” describe his limited vision, which expresses to the reader how difficult and horrible of an experience it must have been. Soyinka’…

…the limited sight that he has in order to keep his sanity. We realize the loneliness that is so much a part of his world. It goes to show that vision is extremely important and that although maybe it didn’t prove very successful in helping keep Soyinka’s sanity it definitely helped him to be able to postpone it a little longer than it would had he not been able to see at all.