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Entrada al Blog: I have discussed this poem in a previous paper (Obumselu 76-77). I now realize that it was written later than I thought, perhaps between June and December 1966. Accordingly, my reading is modified shop for tiffany bracelets to reflect the circumstances to which it refers. "elegy of the Wind" is a poem in which Okigbo's reading and experience as a poet in Cambridge House come together in a work of considerable power. His theme, which appears to be his own personal rebirth into public responsibilities and his recovery of authentic being, looks all the way back to the beginnings in Fiditi and Nsukka through many difficult years of remorse and self-doubt to the return of self assurance in Ibadan. The old apparatus of mythical heroes and gods from uthnapishtim and Orpheus to Idoto and the mother of God gives way. Okigbo now speaks in his own voice using fresh and firm images of his own making, full of color and excitement, to draw the reader into a new inspiring experience of the meaning of life. The mood is the polar opposite of "Silent Sisters." The title of the poem should not be taken lightly. It is the key to the meaning. The wind, in Igbo language ikuku or shop for tiffany necklaces ufele, is a symbol of moral unreliability. As Boreas or Aeolus in classical mythology, it is inconstant and faithless. Recall that in accusing Desdemona of infidelity, Othello speaks of the bawdy wind that kisses all it meets. The wind may stand therefore for shop for tiffany pendants unregenerate human impulse and the wayward desires of the prodigal heart. This is the meaning of the wind in Garcia Lorca's "Presiosa and the Air," a poem that Okigbo read again and again in Cambridge House. In that poem, big, bawdy, philandering San Cristobalon is a pagan fertility god. He comes to Presiosa as a seducer. But he is also Saint Christopher, the Christ-bearer who is fully able to lead the girl into the spiritual duties of domestic life. Christopher Okigbo means to inform the reader by his choice of a title for this poem that "elegy of the Wind" is a poem about himself. He embraces the stereotype of the untamed heart meaning to exploit the ambiguities of a symbol that stands also for the breath of heaven and is the harbinger of fructifying rain.