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A piece of literature is not only a language act but also a social product. Put in another way, literature is creative use of language and a product of and for society. Odia Ofeimun’s ‘The Messiahs’ commands interest in that it portrays a socio-political reality in a language that is striking and effective. This paper is a stylistic investigation of the poem with the aim of describing its features at the syntactic and lexical levels and how they contribute significantly to meaning. How successful Ofeimun is in manipulating language to capture the moral inconsistencies and hypocrisy of military rulers in Nigeria before the return of democratic governance in 1999 forms the crux of this paper. The paper is interested in the significance of functions that the stylistic features fulfill and the pedagogical implication of the choice of poetic texts for school children.

The Poem as a Social and Linguistic Product: A Stylistic Investigation of Odia Ofeimun‟s „The Messiahs‟