“The poet needs to be up at night,when the world
sleeps…needs to exist in places where spiders
forge their webs in silence;near the gutters where
the underside of our dreams fester.”
Based on Ben Okri’s ‘Of Poets and their Antagonists’, the poet in the passage above is
- suffering from insomnia
- one of the numerous living in poverty
-
not an ordinary individual
- a difficult individual