After reading an excellent essay written by Chinua Achebe, also the author of Things Fall Apart, titled An Image of Africa, my essay on poetry was rather lousy. It is with deceiving ease that Achebe fills his essay with arguments and other information. The aspect that separates Achebe's essay from many others, including mine, is that while it contains lots of information, it still seems easy to read. Unlike many other works, that are also rather dense, and difficult to read, Achebe manages to convey all of this information while still producing a very readable text. Unlike my writing, which is also rather dense, he is capable of making it not only more understandable, but also more interesting. Filling writing with information is the easy part, where it gets more difficult however, is giving the reader your arguments, so that he or she still wants to listen to them. That is what seperates Achebe from countless other writers who do not manage to write so deceivingly simply as him.
