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The night before we went on the tour, my fiancé flipped on QVC in the hotel room. An earnest young woman discount tiffany bracelets was extolling the many varieties of Philosophy perfume."This one's very spiritual," she said. "It's good if you're especially prayerful."Even I found it hard to explain where this was coming from. The perfume in question reminds me less of God than of grandmothers and old dresser drawers. After a moment, however, her pitch started to make sense. After all, as Peter asked, how do you sell perfume on TV?

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Okigbo knew Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind" well and there are scattered allusions to the ode throughout Labyrinths. In "Distances," for example, the wind is described as "eternal suitor of dead leaves [who] unrolled his bandages to the finest swimmer" (54). The reference is, of course, to the first lines of Shelley's ode in which the wind characterized as "destroyer and preserver" maintains the living seed "slumbering in the grave." Okigbo's healing "bandages" are in a sense anticipated by Shelley. "elegy of the Wind" does not cite the words of the ode but the architecture of the entire poem recalls the ode. In both, there is a cycle of life, death, and resurrection in which the footloose and tiffany earrings wasteful wind is both Hades's messenger and the angel of rebirth.

The imagery of Okigbo's poem is, of course, totally different from Shelley's. But it embodies the same idea. We do not have to remember Shelley to experience Okigbo's meaning fully. "elegy of the Wind" takes us from the sprouting of the bud, through flower and foliage and fruit, timber and ashes to renewal and a fresh leaf with its twin drops of dew. Side by side with the cycle of nature, the human cycle is sketched in. The mystery of change in human life is not in fact distinguished from the great vegetative cycle of nature. There is only one great mystery of transfigurations. The poet with nature and in tiffany engagement rings nature shoulders his way "through a mass of ancient nights into chlorophyll" and it may be that after death he will revive through a transmigration of souls. He may even have been in a previous life the man who, in Sophocles's Oedipus,

The speaker is a plain man with no religious or philosophic pretences. He is overwhelmed by the inhuman splendor of the cosmos spread out around him. He does not know what it means and he recognizes that his tenure on earth is short. But in that brief interim, he wants to be joined with the splendor above him in a hierogamy and to burn with stellar light. The poet of "Distances" is content to ask only "to feed out of the drum," "drink out of the cymbal," and "enter the bridal chamber." In "elegy tiffany bangles of the Wind," there is a pagan inordinacy of aspiration to drain the cup of life to the lees and smash the iron gates of life despite the acknowledged weakness of human powers.

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 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 tiffany bracelets 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 ufele, is a symbol of moral unreliability. As Boreas or Aeolus in classical mythology, it is inconstant and faithless. Recall that tiffany cufflinks in accusing Desdemona of infidelity, Othello speaks of the bawdy wind that kisses all it meets.

The wind may stand therefore for 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," tiffany pendants 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.