Religious inclination of Sigwavhulimu's poetry, with special reference to Tsiko-Tshiphiri (1971) and Mirunzi ya Vhuvha (1975)

Abstract

Religious themes tend to create a great deal of interest among literary scholars. An instance of this is the poetry by Sigwavhulimu as reflected in his anthologies titled Tsiko-Tshiphiri ‘Secret Creation’ (1971) and Mirunzi ya Vhuvha ‘Shadows of Being’ (1975). Some of the poems in these texts deal with Christian religion explicitly while others are more implicit in their treatment of this theme.