Read the following poem and answer the questions that followWhy do you wear that dress so white? Why do you where that veil so light? Why do your young eyes shine so bright? Is it your wedding? I wear the dress and veil to show That gladly to my love I go My young eyes shine because I know It is my wedding. Questions
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Read the following poem and answer the questions that follow.The seed shop. Here in a quiet and dusty room they lie, Faded as crumbled stone or shifting sand, Forlorn as ashes, shriveled scentless dry, Meadows and gardens running through my hand. In this brown husk a dale of haw throne dreams; A cedar in this narrow cell is thrust, That will drink deeply of a century’s streams, These lilies shall make summer on my dust, Here in their safe and simple house of death, Sealed in their shells, a million roses leap; Here I can blow a garden with my breath, And in my hand a forest lies asleep. QUESTIONS
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Read the poem below and answer the questions that follow. I LOVE THEE
I love thee,as I love the calm
Of sweet,star-lighted hours I love thee,as I love the balm Of early jasmine flowers I love thee,as I love thee last Rich smile of fading day Which lingereth,like the look we cast On rapture passed away I love thee as I love as I love the tone Of some soft breathing flute Whose soul is woken for me alone When all beside is mute I love thee as I love the first Young violet of the spring Or the pale lily,April nursed To scented blossoming. (By Eliza Acton)……………………………………. QUESTIONS
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Identify words that are pronounced almost the same way as the words below(5marks)
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Read the poem below and then answer the questions that follow:A SECOND OLYMPUS
From the rostrum they declaimed
On martyrs and men of high ideals When they sent out Benevolent despots to an unwilling race Straining at the yoke. Bull dozers trampling on virgin ground In blatant violation. They trampled down all that was strange, And filled the void. With half digested alien thoughts; They left a trail of red. Whenever their feet had passed Oh, they did themselves fine. And strutted about the place, Self-proclaimed demi-gods From counterfeit Olympus One day they hurled down thunderbolts On a toiling race of the earthworms. They might have rained down pebbles. To pelt the brats to death But that was beneath them They kept up the illusion That they were fighting foes. Killing in the name of high ideals. At the inquest they told the world The worms were becoming pests. Moreover they said? They did not like wriggling things Strange prejudice for gods. Poetry Questions and AnswersRead the poem below and then answer the questions that follow.Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend With thee; but, sir, so what I plead is just. Why do sinners’ way prosper? and why must Disappointment all I endeavour end? Wert thou my enemy O thou my friend How wouldst thou worse, I wonder, than thou dost Defeat, thwart me? Oh, the sots and thralls of lust Do spare hours more thrive than, that spend, Sir, life upon thy cause. See, banks and breaks Now, leavèd how thick! lacèd they are again With fretty cherril, look, and fresh wind shakes Them; birds build – but not I build; no, but strain, Time’s enough, and not breed one work that wakes. Mine, O thou lord of life, send my roots rain. Poetry Questions and AnswersRead the oral poem below and then answer the questions that follow.Her lip suckle the nipples Milk bubbles, foams and ripples Little hands up in the air Catch on the mother’s hair Sweet sensation rises in pressure Tiny legs kick with pleasure Sleep whispers softly and long
(Emusara Ossie Enekase)
Poetry Questions and AnswersRead the song below and then answer the questions that follow.Soloist : Greetings to you comrade warriors.Others: Greetings! Soloist: Do you know or you do not know me? Others : We do not know you? Soloist : I know you know me not For I am he who is known as Ole Pare who wears a loose ring And who owns stout steers and a healthy herd. That bears in the months of plenty. That are over-weight by fat. Others : Yes it is him indeed! Soloist : He that owns heifers with large stomachs. For whom the meadow is insufficient but who gets stuffed at the valleys. Where cow bells are removed1 As they are grazed together with those of the king’s Others: It is him! Soloist: I have the blue one with the horn. Whose beauty resists branding. Who leads the large herd of Kilapa2 Whose numbers pose difficulty when moving homes.
Read the following poem then answer the questions that follow
Read the poem below and answer the questions that follow.
Your nails are black with dirt, brother
And your palms are clammy with sweat I refuse to take the hand you extend in help I shall not join hands with you brother For unclean hands make me uneasy For filthy fingernails rob me of my pride. You argue, gesticulating with your once Impeccably clean and beautiful hands That before long it shall not matter For ‘everybody’ is delving and digging And all shall have hands dripping with dirt. Western civilization - KCSE English poetry questions and answers
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Sheets of tin nailed to posts driven in the ground make up the house Some rags complete The intimate landscape The sun slanting through the cracks welcomes the owner. After twelve hours of slave labour Breaking rock shifting rock breaking rock shifting rock fair weather wet weather breaking rock shifting rock Old age comes early a mat on dark nights is enough when he dies gratefully of hunger questions
a) What is the poem about? (4 marks)
b) Identify and illustrate two features of style used in the poem. (4 marks) c) What does the fifth stanza suggest about the work done by “he”? (2 marks) d) What basic requirements does the “he” in the poem lack? (3 marks) e) Why do you think the “he” dies “gratefully”? (1 mark) f) Describe two themes brought out in the poem. (4 marks) g) Explain the meaning of “Old age comes early” (1 marks) h) Supply a word that means the same as hunger as used in the poem. (1 mark White child meets black man - KCSE English poetry questions and answers
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She caught me outside a London Suburban shop, I, like a giraffe And she a mouse. I tried to go But felt she stood Lovely as light on my back I turned with hello And waited. Her eyes got Wider but not her lips. Hello I smiled again and watched. She stepped around me Slowly, in a kind of dance, Her wide eyes searching Inch by inch up and down: No fur no scales no feathers No shell. Just a live silhouette, Wild and strange And compulsive Till mother came horrified 'Mummy is his tummy black?' Mother grasped her and swung Toward the crowd. She tangled Mother’s legs looking back at me As I watched them birds were singing. James Berry (Jamaica) questions
(a) Briefly explain what the poem is about. (3mks)
(b) Explain what the reaction of the white child makes the persona feel. (4mks) (c) Compare and contrast the reactions of the mother and daughter to the black man. (6mks) (d) Identify and explain any two figures of speech used in this poem. (4mks) (e) Explain the significance of the last line of the poem. (3mks) THE PRESS - KCSE English poetry questions and answers
Read the poem below and then answer the question that follows.
So What is the mountain deal? About the minister’s ailing son That makes boiling news? How come it was not whispered? When Tina’s hospital bed was crawled with maggots And her eyes oozed pus Because the doctors lacked gloves? What about Kasajja’s only child Who died because the man with the key To the oxygen room was on leave? I have seen queues Of emaciated mothers clinging to Babies with translucent skins Faint in line And the lioness of a nurse Commanding tersely ‘Get up or live the line’ Didn’t I hear it rumored that The man with the white mane Ushered a rape case out of court Because the seven-year-old Failed to testify? Anyway, I only remembered these things Ehen I drink They indeed tipsy explosions. Susan Nalugwa Kiguli Adopted By from: Echoes across the valley. questions
a) Identify and explain the social evils dealt with in the poem. (6 marks)
b) Pick out three poetic devices evident in this poem and comment on their significance. (6 marks) c) Comment on the tone of the poem. (2 marks) d) Is the title significant? Why or why not? (2 marks) e) Explain the irony of the poem? (2 marks) f) Explain the meaning of the following words: (2 marks) i) Crawled ii) Ushered Their City - KCSE English poetry questions and answers
Read the poem below and answer the questions that follow.
Their city City in the sun without any warmth except for wanaotosheka and the tourists escaping from civilized boredom Sit under the Tree any Saturday morning and watch the new Africans, the anxious faces behind the steering wheels in hire purchase cars see them looking important in a tiny corner behind the chauffeur We have seen them in a nightmare, the thickset directors of several companies; we have seen them struggling under the weight of a heavy lunch on a Monday afternoon cutting a tape to open a building, we have seen them looking over their gold-rimmed glasses to read a speech And in the small hours between one day and the next we have strolled through the deserted streets and seen strange figures under bougainvillea bushes in traffic islands figures hardly human snoring away into the cold winds of the night; desperately dying to live. (Lennard Okola) questions
a) Who is the persona in the poem? (2 marks)
b) Explain what the poem is about. (3 marks) c) What is achieved by repetition of “We have seen them”? (2 marks) d) Identify and explain two thematic concerns of the poet. (4 marks) e) Why are the “new Africans” said to have anxious faces? (2 marks) f) Explain the meaning of the expression; figures hardly human desperately dying to live. (2 marks) g) How does the persona portray the rich? (2 marks) h) Describe the tone in the poem. (3 marks) Beggar in the three a piece - KCSE English poetry questions and answers
Read the poem below and answer the questions that follow.
My Jumbo Shot its way Across the sky To distant lands Across blue seas I descended the ladder To a waiting ribbon Of blood-red carpet A quick glance at my Three piece suit and the tie That beautifully strangled my neck. On my left hand hang My beaded knob kerry On my right I clutched My rusty inter- nation Begging Bowl On my face I wore humility and need And of course dignity. Sir, the dearth of food Had rendered my people thin And hungry Scoop us a little You know Just little To keep them till next rains. But Sir, beggars In three piece Are a rare sight But your suit is beautiful Honestly. Now my suit Which cost me a fortune In a Parisian Texture Has denied me a fortune And my countrymen, life. By. L.O. Sunkuli. questions
(a) Who is the persona in the poem? (3 marks)
(b) What is the subject matter of this poem? (4 marks) (c) Explain the satire in this poem and comment on its effectiveness. (4 marks) (d) Describe the tone of this poem. (3 marks) (e) Explain what the last stanza implies. (3 marks) (f) Explain the meaning of the following liens as used in the poem. (3 marks)
THE CRACK - KCSE ENGLISH POETRY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Crack the glass
And the crack Will always remain The human heart Has the same vein Its just as delicate To the strain Once it is hurt It is too hard To fade the strain Although parts can Fix together You’ve just to touch the wound To make it drain again Questions
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