Read the following poem and then answer the questions that follow. Should I Or should I not Take the oath to love For ever This person I know little about? Does she love me? Or my car Or my future Which I know little about? Will she continue to love me? When the future she saw in me Crumbles and fades into nothing Leaving the naked me To love without hope? Will that smile she wears Last through the hazards to come When fate strikes Across the dreams of tomorrow? Like the clever passenger in a faulty plane, Wear her life jacket And jump out to save her life Leaving me crush into the unknown? What magic can I use? To see what lies beneath Her angel face and well-knit hair To see her hopes and dreams Before I take an oath To love forever? We are both wise chess players She makes a move I make a move And we trap each other in our secret dreams Hoping to win against each other ~ Everett Standa QUESTION
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THE NECKLACERead the following poem and then answer the questions that follow. From a distance Fearful of inching any further, A cold sweat trickled rivulets, Making me shiver at noon. Undaring to approach the form It was over in minutes, The necessities of execution availed, The firestone tyre, Petrol in blackened tin, And ignites in numerous hands Each participant ready and anxious, To set the man a flame. As the smouldering form blackened, Smell of sizzling flesh filling in the air Piercing the nostrils, And choking me breathless, I watched in wonder, Witness to an unwritten law. As the crowd dispersed, The haggling and bargaining resumed, Buying, selling and cheating, As men in uniform arrived, Bearing away the charred remains Questions
Get PDF format for printing and Answers ... Learn how to download. SONG OF AGONYRead the poem below and answer the questions that follow. (20 mks) I put on a clean shirt And go to work Which of us Which of us will come back? Four and twenty moons Not seeing women Not seeing my hand Which of us Which of us will die? I put on a clean shirt And go to work my contract To work far away I go beyond the mountain Into the bush Where the roads end And the rivers run dry Which of us Which of us will come back? Which of us Which of us will die? questions
Get PDF format for printing and Answers ... Learn how to download. MWANANCHIRead the poem below and answer the questions that follow. (20 marks) You embarrass me… Mwananchi Why do you embarrass me with your questions About the new Mercedes I bought The large farm I own The houses, the wives, An inflated stomach! Mwananchi Why do you threaten me with your threats The threats in your bloodshot eyes Fixedly pointed at me wherever I go Like if you are ready To release the arrow that will deflate me Into nothingness; Even the watchmen, the dogs, the police Are all not enough to protect me From your increasing shouts to protest Against my good judgement; Mwananchi Have you forgotten how you loved me And gave me your vote That I may be your man in parliament? Now that I have the power I will mend your confused senses And keep you in prison Until you see me as your leader again And keep those bloodshot eyes away from me I will charge like an angry lion And scare you out of your wits Until like a frightened dog, You keep your head forever… ~Everett M. Standa questions
View or Download PDF format for printing ... Learn how to download. Answers are not available now, to be available soon ... In the cityPOETRY (20 MARKS) Read the following poem and then answer the questions that follow.All moving the Lord knows where, Dressed in suits and tatters, Bowties, tights, ochred sheets and earrings, All thinking of things to come, Africa is in a state of opportunity, All look for easy chances. Of self-upliftment or undeserved promotion That often mirage further and further Making frustrate Minds that should be content It is a time of opportunity- When one line makes a poet And a little acquaintance or chance Rockets one to the highest office But the peasant, the pillar of the nation, Has only to cope with prices that shift Like the waves that rock the ship Carrying yellow maize to the city. The employed call out strikes That only deplete the little funds That may relieve the peasant- The elder brother keeps the younger in hunger At home, if there’s any, The child plays with an empty bottle, Cries for more milk When the cost is daily on the rise While the incomes remain static And the higher brackets are daily filled By youths that will not retire Within this century. The child laughs gaily, Displaying its only four teeth That show it grows to eat, Unaware of all that shapes her decade Adapted from a poem by Joseph G. Mutiga QUESTIONS
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