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Western civilization - KCSE English poetry questions and answers

14/6/2019

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​Western civilization - KCSE English poetry questions and answers

​Read the poem below and answer the questions that follow.
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
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White child meets black man - KCSE English poetry questions and answers

14/6/2019

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​White child meets black man - KCSE English poetry questions and answers

Read the poem below and answer questions that follow.
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)
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THE PRESS - KCSE English poetry questions and answers

14/6/2019

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​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 
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Their City - KCSE English poetry questions and answers

14/6/2019

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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)
next >> the press
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Beggar in the three a piece - KCSE English poetry questions and answers

14/6/2019

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​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)
  • i) My Jumbo
    Shot its way
    Across the sky
  • ii) That beautifully strangled my neck.
  • iii) To keep them till next rains.
next >> their city
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THE CRACK - KCSE ENGLISH POETRY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

12/6/2019

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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

  • a) What is the subject matter of the poem? (2 marks)
  • b) How would you recite the lines 4 and 5 of stanza 2 (2 marks)
  • c) Identify and illustrate any two aspects of style employed in this poem. (4 marks)
  • d) What does the persona mean by the last two lines of the poem? (2 marks)
NEXT >> BEGGAR IN THE THREE A PIECE
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I HAD A DREAM - KCSE ENGLISH POETRY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

12/6/2019

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​I HAD A DREAM - KCSE ENGLISH POETRY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

​I had a dream last night, I dreamed
I had to pick a mother out.
I had to choose a father too.
At first, I wondered what to do,
There were so many there, it seemed,
Short and tall and thin and stout
But just before I sprang awake,
I know what parents I would take.
And this surprised and made me glad;
They were the ones I always had!

QUESTIONS

  • i) Describe the rhyme scheme of the above poem. (2 marks)
  • ii) Identify any three pairs of rhyming words in this poem. (3 marks)
  • iii) Identify one in each of the following sound devices. (3 marks)
    Repetition -
    Alliteration -
    Assonance -
NEXT >> THE CRACK
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THE CROW - KCSE ENGLISH POETRY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

12/6/2019

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THE CROW - KCSE ENGLISH POETRY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Read the following poem carefully and answer all the questions that follow.
Crows on the wing!
What grace as they swim
Rising and driving 
Like fish in the billows

In the willowy air
Or softly as feathers
Franboken pillows

Crows on the wing
What a symphony sings
The wind in their wings
As they swoop as the rise
To the sea to the skies
As they float in the light 
(Barnabas J. Ramon Fortune)

Questions 

  • a. Describe the rhyme scheme of the poem (2mks)
  • b. Apart from rhyme, identify two sound patterns evident in the poem. (2mk)
  • c. Which word would you stress in the first two lines of the poem and why? (2mks)

Answers

a)  
  • i) a b a c d cc a ee f f g – Irregular hence unpredictable
  • ii) Alliteration – symphony and sings sea and skies (mark for simbilance also)
  • iii) Crows, wing grace, swim – 1mk
    Because they are content words
NEXT >> I HAD A DREAM
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LOVE - KCSE ENGLISH POETRY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

12/6/2019

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​LOVE - KCSE ENGLISH POETRY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Read the poem below and answer the questions that follows: (20 mks)
Love is madness.
Hard brutal madness
Love is fire 
Flat blazing 
Love is a chameleon
A camouflaged dangerous chamwleon
Hot fiery love,
I beg you……….
​Put out your brazing flame,
Because I desire to fell for you
Hard remorseful love
Please change your stance
Before  the fire of my youth
Is quenched
(from the African saga by Susan N. Kiguli)

Questions

  • (a) Identify in your own words what the poem says about love. (4mks)
  • (b) Identify and explain in images used to describe love. (6mks)
  • (c) What effect does the persona create by addressing (apostrophizing)love directly in the last stanza (4mks)
  • (d) Explain the irony of the last two lines (3mks)
    Before the fire of my mouth.
    Is quenched.
  • (e)explain the meaning of in the following (3mks)
    • (i) Brutal
    • (ii) Camouflaged
    • (iii) Remorseless)

Answers

a) 
  • The poem addresses the issue of love being an overwhelming consuming feeling that totally controls individuals. It is also an indescribable feeling exhibited in different ways. It is described as
    •  -  love is fire, hot brazing fire
    •  -  love is a chameleon
    •  -  hard remorseless.
b)
  • Metaphor – love is compared to fire.
  • It is also compared to a chameleon.
  • Personification – the persona says ……………..” I beg of you…..
  • Apostrophe – He address love directly………..” I desire to feel you…..”
c)
  • By addressing love directly, the persona is showing the apparent desperation on the part of the persona. The persona is imploring love to enable him to experience the true feeling of being in love.
d)
  • It is ironical that the persona desires to feel love yet he begs love to put out its blazing flame.
e)
  • i)Cruel or violent
  • ii)Disguised or hidden
  • iii)Cruel/uncaring or callous.
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I WENT TO CHURCH - KCSE ENGLISH POETRY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

9/6/2019

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​‘STILL I RISE’ - KCSE ENGLISH POETRY QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS

​I WENT TO CHURCH - KCSE ENGLISH POETRY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

​Read the following poem and answer the questions that follow.
I went to church today.
Yes I went and prayed for all
Friends and foes a like.
Dead and those alive.

I also prayed hard.
For the soul of that soldier.
Who got short.
Fighting for our motherland
While I shot hot life into his wife.
And I prayed to God too
That I live long
To go and pray again

Questions

  • ​a) What is the poem about? (4 marks)
  • b) Identify and illustrate any two character traits of the speaker. (4 marks)
  • c) Identify and illustrate three poetic devices used in the poem. (6 marks)
  • d) What is the meaning of the following lines as used in the poem. (2 marks)
    • i) While I shot hot life into his wife.
    • ii) That I live long to go and pray again.
  • e)
    • ​ i) What is the tone of the poem (2 marks)
    • ii) Explain the overriding mood of the poem. (2 marks)
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‘STILL I RISE’ - kcse english poetry questions with answers

6/6/2019

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‘STILL I RISE’ - KCSE ENGLISH POETRY QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS

​Read the following poem and respond to the questions appropriately.
You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I’ll rise.
Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
‘Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells’
Pumping in my living room.

Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainity of tides
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I’ll rise.

Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like tear drops.
Weakened by my soulful cries.

Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don’t you take it awful hard
‘cause I laugh like I’ve got gold mines
Diggin’ in my own backyard.

You m,ay shoot me with your word
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I’ll rise.

Out of the hurts of history’s shame
I rise
Up from a past that’s rooted in pain
I raise
I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear
In the tide
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a day brake that is wondrously clear 
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my 
Ancestors game,
I am the dream and the
Hope of the slave
I rise
I rise
I rise
Adapted from: Maya Angelous’ STILL I RISE (1978)

QUESTIONS

  • ​1. With support from the poem, briefly explain what the poem is about. (3 marks)
  • 2. Identify three challenges that the speaker in the poem contends with. (3 marks)
  • 3. What is the attitude of the speaker towards these challenges? (2 marks)
  • 4. Identify and illustrate figures of speech from the poem above. Comment on their effectiveness. (4 marks)
  • 5. Other than the style in (4) above, identify and illustrate other two stylistic devices employed by the poet. (4 marks)
  • 6. Explain the meaning of the following phrases as they are used in poem. (3 marks)
    • a) ‘Cause I laugh I’ve got gold mines’
    • b) ‘But still, like dust, I’ll rise’.
    • c) I am Black Ocean, leaping and wide.
  • 7. Supply the following sentence with the correct question tag. (1 mark)
    I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
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THE SMILING ORPHAN - KCSE ENGLISH POETRY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

6/6/2019

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THE SMILING ORPHAN - KCSE ENGLISH POETRY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

​Read the following poem and respond to the questions appropriately. 
And when she passed away, 
They came, 
Kinsmen came, 
Friends came,
Everybody came to mourn her. 

Hospitalized for five months 
The ward was her world 
Fellow patients her compatriots 
The meager hospital supply-her-diet
When she was dying
Her son was on official duty 
The state demanded his services 
Her only daughter, uneducated, 
Sat by her 
Crying, praying waiting for an answer 
From God far above 
Wishing, she spoke the language 
Figures in white-coats do understand 
They matched, the figures did 
Stiff, numb and deaf, to the cries and wishes 
Of her dying mother 

As she was dying 
Friends and kinsmen TALKED of her 
How good, how helpful:  a very practical woman 
None reached her: they were too busy, there waws no money, 
Who would look after their homes?
Was it so crucial their presence?

But when she passed away, they came, 
Kinsmen came, friends hired cars to come, 
Neighbours gathered to mourn her, 
They ought to be there, to be there for the funeral
So they swore 

The mourners shrieked out cries 
As they arrived in the busy compound of the dead. 
Memories of loved ones no more 
Stimulated tears of many. 

They cried dutiful tears for the deceased 
Now stretching their hands all over to help 
The daughter looked at them 
With dry eyes, quiet, blank 
​The mourners pinched each other 
Shocked by the stone – heartedness 
Of the be-orphaned.

She sat: watching the tears soak their garments
Or in the soil around them; wasted 

That night, she went to her love, 
In the freshly made emergency grass hut, 
And let loose all ties of the Convectional Dress she wore
Submitting to the Great Power, she whispered:

‘Now ……………….
You and I must know Now………….
Tomorrow you might never understand
Unable to lick my tears ……………..
And there was light 
In the darkness of the hut 
While outside 
The mourners cried 
Louder thant he Orphan 
By Grace Birabwa Isharaza

QUESTION

a) Who is the persona in the poem? (2 marks) 
NEXT >> STILL I RISE
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AFRICA - KCSE ENGLISH POETRY QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS

6/6/2019

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AFRICA - KCSE ENGLISH POETRY QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS

​Read the poem below and then answer the question that follow.
Africa my Africa 
Africa of proud warriors in the ancestral savannah’s
Africa my grandmother sings of 
Beside her distant river
I have never seen you.

But my gaze is full of your blood.
Your black spilt over the field.
The blood of your sweat
The sweat of your toil
The toil of slavery
The slavery of your children.
Africa, tell me Africa,
Are you the back that bends.
Lies down under the weight of humbleness?
The trembling back stripped red.

That says yes to the whips on the road of noon?
Solemnly a voice answers me
“Impetuous child, that young and sturdy tree.
That tree that grows.
There splendidly alone among white and faded flowers.
Is Africa, your Africa. It puts forth new shoots.
With patience and stubbornness pouts forth news shoots.
Slowly its fruits grow to have 
That bitter taste of freedom. 

QUESTIONS

  • 1. Who is the persona 2mks
  • 2. What is the message of the poem? 3mks
  • 3. Identify any three stylistic devices used in the poem. 6mks
  • 4. What is the tone of the poem? 3mks
  • 5. From the above poem, explain the meaning of the following lines?
    • a)’ But the gaze is full of your blood. Your blood spilt over the field.’ 1mk
    • b)’ Africa, my Africa
  • Africa of proud warriors in the ancestral Savannah’ 1mk
  • 6. But my gaze is full of your blood. 1mk
    (Add an appropriate question tag)
  • 7. What is the meaning of the following words? 3mks
    • i) Solemnly
    • ii) Sturdy 
    • iii) Toil
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The Earth - KCSE ENGLISH POETRY QUESTIONS AND AND ANSWERS

5/6/2019

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THE EARTH - KCSE ENGLISH POETRY QUESTIONS AND AND ANSWERS

​Read the poem below and answer the questions that follow.
The earth does not get fat. It makes an end-
Of those who wear the head plumes
We shall die on the earth. The earth
does not get fat. It makes an end of those who act swiftly as heroes.
Shall we die on the earth?

Listen O earth. We shall mourn because of you. 
Listen O earth. Shall we all die on the earth? 
The earth does not get fat. It makes an end of 
The chiefs. Shall we die on earth? The 
earth does not get fat. It makes an end 
Of the women chiefs. Shall we die on earth?


Listen o earth. We shall mourn because of you. 
Listen O earth. Shall we all die on earth? 
The earth does not get fat. It makes an end 
Of the nobles. The earth does not get fat 
It makes an end of the royal women. 
Shall we die on earth?

The earth does not get fat. It makes an end
of the common people. Shall we die on the earth?
The earth does not get fat. It makes an end of all the beasts
Shall we die on the earth?
Listen you who are asleep, who are left
tightly closed in the land. Shall we all sink
Into the earth? Listen O
Earth the sun is setting tightly. We shall enter into the earth.
We shall not enter into the earth.
(From: 'The Heritage Of African Poetry')

QUESTIONS

  • a)  What is the poem about?   (3 mks)
  • b) Who is the persona in the poem?   (2mks)                         
  • c) Identify and illustrate any two features of style  used in the poem?   (4mks)
  • d) What is the tone of the persona in the poem?   (2mks)
  • e) What in the poem shows that death is indiscriminate in its manifestations?  (2mks)
  • f) Describe the political setting of the community from which the poem originates.  (2mks)
  • g) What is the mood of the poem?   (2mks)
  • h) Explain what the expressions below mean :   (3mks)
    • i) The earth does not get fat .
    • ii) Those who wear the head plumes
    • iii) Earth the sun is setting tightly 
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A FORTUNE THAT NEVER WAS - KCSE ENGLISH POETRY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

5/6/2019

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A FORTUNE THAT NEVER WAS - KCSE ENGLISH POETRY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

​Read the following oral poem and answer the questions that follow.
After a brief struggle I got myself 
A job
My food was meat and banana
flour
A hundred cents a month and
soon I had some money.

Soon afterwards I bought myself
A beautiful girl
My heart was telling time this
was a fortune
So heart you were deceiving
me and I believed you
On a Saturday morning as I was 
leaving work
I was thinking I was being
awaited at home
But on arrival I couldn’t find my bride

Nor was she in her parents home
I ran fast to the river valley;
What I saw gave me a shock.
There was my wife conversing
with her lovers.

I sat and silently wept.
I realized there is no luck in this world.
People aren’t trustworthy and
will never be!

QUESTIONS

  • (a) Place this song in its appropriate genre. (2 Marks)
  • (b) State and illustrate two functions of this song.    (4 Marks)
  • (c) What evidence is there to show that this is an Oral Poem?  (4 Marks)
  • (d) Explain briefly what the poem is about.  (2 Marks)
  • (e) Give any two character traits of the singer.  (4 Marks)
  • (f) Identify and illustrate two economic activities practiced by the society in the song.    (4 Marks)
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death is a witch - kcse english poetry questions and answers

5/6/2019

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DEATH IS A WITCH - KCSE ENGLISH POETRY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

​DEATH IS A WITCH
Solo:                 Ah, what shall I do, Abuluhya? 
                          It’s wrong
Chorus:           Today I will say 
                          Death is a witch, my people 
                          It snatched my child 
                          I will remain alone
Solo:                 Ah what shall I really do, Abuluhya its very wrong 
Chorus:           Today I will say 
                          Death is a witch, my people 
                          It snatched my child 
                          I will weed along
Solo:                Ah, what shall I really do, Abuluhya it’s wrong 
Chorus:          Today I will say 
                         Death is a witch, my people 
                         It snatched my child 
                         I will dance alone
Solo:               My child, my friend, I cry what shall I do? I cry 
                        What shall I do? I cry x2

QUESTIONS

  • a) Classify the above oral poem giving reasons. (2 marks)  
  • b) What is the singer’s attitude towards death?  (2 marks) 
  • c) What two things are lost when this song is written down? Use suitable illustrations from the song to support your answer. (4 marks)
  • d) Identify one character trait of death brought out in this poem. (2 marks) 
  • e) With illustrations, identify social-economic activities of the community from which this song is drawn. (4 marks)
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THE PAUPER - KCSE ENGLISH POETRY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

4/6/2019

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THE COURAGE THAT MY MOTHER HAD

​THE PAUPER - KCSE ENGLISH POETRY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

​Read the following poem and then answer the questions that follow.
Pauper, pauper, craning your eyes
In all directions, in no direction!
What brutal force, malignant element,
Dared to forge your piteous fate?
Was it worth the effort, the time?

You limply lean on a leafless tree
Nursing the jiggers that shrivel your bottom
Like baby newly born to an old woman.
What crime, what treason did you commit
That you are thus condemned to human indifference?
 
And when you trudge on the horny pads,
Gullied like the soles of modern shoes,
Pads that even jiggers cannot conquer;
Does He admire your sense of endurance
Or turn his head away from your imprudent presence?
 
You sit alone on hairless goatskins,
Your ribs and bones reflecting the light
That beautiful cars reflect on you,
Squashing like between your nails.
And cleaning your nails with dry saliva.
 
And when He looks at the grimy coating
Caking off your emaciated skin,
At the rust that uproots all your teeth
Like a pick on a stony piece of land,
Does He pat his paunch at the wonderful sight?
 
Pauper, pauper, crouching in beautiful verandas
Of beautiful cities and beautiful people,
Tourists and I will take your snapshots,
And your M.P. with a shining head and triple chin
Will mourn your fate in a supplementary questions at question time.
(Adapted from poems from East Africa, by Cook and Rubadiri EDS)

QUESTIONS

  • ​i) Identify the persona in the poem above. (2 marks) 
  • ii) What evidence from the poem suggest that the subject is poor? (4 marks) 
  • iii) Comment on the writer's use of imagery in stanza two. (3 marks)
  • iv) Apart from the imagery indentified in (iii) above, discuss any two other stylistic devices employed in the poem. (4 marks)
  • v) What is the persona's attitude towards the M.P. (2 marks)
  • vi) Discuss one theme brought out in the poem. (2 marks)
  • vii) Explain the meaning of the following words and expression as used in the poem. (3 marks)
    • a) Emaciated .
    • b) Crouching.
    • c) Gullied like the soles of modern shoes.
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The Courage That My Mother Had - KCSE ENGLISH POETRY QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS

4/6/2019

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​The Courage That My Mother Had - KCSE ENGLISH POETRY QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS

​Read the following poem and then answer the questions that follow.
The courage that my mother had
Went with her, and is with her still;
Rock and New England quarried;
Now granite in a granite hill.
The golden brooch my mother wore
She left behind for me to wear;
I have nothing I treasure more;
Yet, it is something I could spare.
Oh, if instead she’d left to me
The thing she took into the gravel!
The courage like a rock, which she
Has no more need of, and I have.
(Had – Edna St. Vincent Millay)

QUESTIONS

  • ​a) Briefly explain how the poem is about. (4 marks)
  • b) Is the speaker male or female? How do you know? (2 marks)
  • c) What does the speaker wish the mother had left behind? Why can’t the wish be fulfilled? (3 marks)
  • d) Describe the character trait of the mother in the poem. (2 marks)
  • e) Identify and illustrate the imagery used in the poem. (4 marks)
  • f) What is the speaker’s attitude towards the mother and the golden brooch in the poem. (3 marks)
  • g) Rewrite the following in your own words: (2 marks)
    • “Has no more need of, and I have”
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the inmates - kcse english poetry questions and answers

4/6/2019

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THE INMATES - KCSE ENGLISH POETRY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

​Read the poem below and answer the questions that follow.
The inmates
Huddled together
Cold biting their bones
Teeth chattering from the chill,
The air oppressive,
The smell offensive
They sit and they reflect

The room self contained
At the corner the ‘gents’ invites
With the nice fragrance of ammonia,
And fresh human dung,
The fresh inmates sit thoughtfully

Vermin perform a guard of honour
Saluting him with a bite here
And a bite there
‘Welcome to the world, they seem to say’
The steel lock of the door
The walls insurmountable
And the one torching tortuous bulb
Stare vacantly at him
Slowly he reflects about the consignment
That gave birth to his confinement
Locked in for conduct refinement
The reason they put him in prison

The clock ticks
But too slowly
Five years will be a long time
Doomed in the dungeon
In this hell of a cell

QUESTIONS

  • ​a) Who is the persona in the poem? (1 mark)
  • b) Briefly explain what the poem is about. (2 marks)
  • c) Identify and illustrate  three aspects of style in the poem. (6 marks)
  • d) Give evidence from the poem which indicates the inmates are suffering. (3 marks)
  • e) Why is the fresh inmate in prison?  (2 marks)
  • f) Identify and explain the mood of the new convict. (2 marks)
  • g) Explain the meaning of the following lines as used in the poem.
    • i) That gave birth to his confinement (1 mark)
    • ii) The room is self contained (1 mark)
  • h) What does the steel lock in the door and the insurmountable walls suggest? (2 marks)
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LIES BEHIND BEAUTY - ENGLISH POETRY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

3/6/2019

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LIES BEHIND BEAUTY

Read the poem and answer the questions that follow: (8 marks)
​Who will believe my verse in time to come,
If it were filled with your most high whoosh deserts?
Though yet heaven knows, it is but as tomb
Which hides your life and shows not half your parts
If I could write the beauty of your eyes
And in fresh number all your graces,
The age to come would say ‘This poet lies’
Such heavenly touches never touched earth’s faces,
So should my papers, yellowed with their age,
Be scorned, like lazy less travelled old men of less truth than tongue

QUESTIONS

  • i) Identify the rhyme scheme of the poem?  (2 marks)
  • ii) Apart from rhyme, how else has rhythm been achieved? (2 marks)
  • iii) Identify four words with silent letters and underline the letters.  (2 marks)
  • iv) Which words would you stress in the first line and why?  (2 marks)

MARKING SCHEME

  • ​i) Identify the rhyme scheme of the poem? (2mks)
    • ababcdcdef√1 - regular√1
  •  ii) Apart from rhyme, how else has rhythm been achieved? (2mks)
    • Alliteration - like lazy less (the sound l has to be underlined)
    • Onomatopoeia – whoosh
    • Assonance – it is    (the sound l has to be underlined)
  • iii) Identify four words with silent letters and underline the letters (2mks)
    • Tomb, knows, half, write
  • iv) Which words would you stress in the first line and why? (2mks)
    • Believe, verse, time, come – content words  (must identify all of them to score full marks) 
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​DUSKS OF DRINKS AND DRUGS - ENGLISH POETRY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

2/6/2019

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​DUSKS OF DRINKS AND DRUGS

Read the poem provided below and answer the questions that follow: (20mks)
​Drinks and drugs drained our dreams,
Drinks and drugs drowned our dreams;
They drew dusks and dark nights,
Drinks and drugs spawned our nightmares;
We wailed and screamed in seas of terror
In sweat-drenched bodies, bobbed we out,
Like drugged fish out of muddy streams;
Gasping for breath-hearts pumping and panting.
Inaudibly mumbled incoherent words
Pulled back stubborn sleep to no avail,
She fled like a refugee fleeing a civil war.
Our bedmates asked: we answered not!
~ Boniface Wasira

QUESTIONS

  • i) Who is the persona in the poem? (2 marks)
  • ii) What is the poem talking about? (3 marks)
  • iii) Comment on the use of any three aspects of style in the poem. (6 marks)
  • iv) What the persona’s attitude towards drinks and drugs as brought out in the poem? (3 marks)
  • v) In your own opinion, do you think the persona has regrets regarding drug use? Support your answer. (3 marks)
  • vi) Explain the meaning of the following phrases as used in the poem. (3 marks)
    • a) …bobbed we out
    • b) Drinks and drugs spawned our nightmares
    • c) Pulled back the stubborn sleep to no avail. 
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BLOOD IRON - KCSE POETRY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

2/6/2019

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BLOOD IRON - KCSE POETRY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

​Read the Oral Poem below then answer the questions that follow.
Blood iron and trumpets
Blood iron and trumpets
Forward we march
(Clothes fall on the way)
Blood iron and trumpets
We shall hack, kill and core
Blood iron and trumpets
Singers of the Datsun blue
Forward we drive breaking the records
Blood iron and trumpets
Let bullets find their targets and earth be softened
Blood iron and trumpets
Let the dogs of war rejoice
And the Carion birds feed
We are reducing population explosion
Blood iron and trumpets
The uniformed machines are around
Put on your helmet iron and vest
Blood iron and trumpets
Only through fire can be baptized to mean business
So once again,
Blood iron and trumpets
We shall always march along
Blood iron and trumpets
Blood iron and trumpets
Blood alone

QUESTIONS

  1. Classify the oral piece above. (2 marks)
  2. Give three functions of the oral piece above. (3 marks)
  3. Identify two features of oral poetry evident in the oral item above. (4 marks)
  4. Explain the two issues this oral poem is talking about. (2 marks)
  5. Cite one social and one economic activity of the community from which this oral poem is taken. (4 marks)
  6. Who would be the most suitable audience for the oral poem? Give reasons for your answer. (2 marks)
  7. Why are the soldiers likened to machines. (1 mark)
  8. Describe the mood of the poem. (2 marks)

MARKING SCHEME

  • ​1. Classify the oral piece above. (2 marks)
    • War song.”‘let bullets find their targets”/ “forward we march”/  “others fall on the way” 
  • 2.Give three functions of the oral piece above. (3 marks)
    • To instill courage and bravery.  To express solidarity/togetherness.  To express the exploits of the warriors.  To express the pride of the warriors. 
  • 3.Identify two features of oral poetry evident in the oral item above. (4 marks)
    • -Repetition ” Blood iron and trumpets “. -Metaphor ”dogs of war” ”,uniformed machines”
    • -Hyperbole Uniformed machines. 
  • 4.Explain the two issues this oral poem is talking about. (2 marks)
    • -Determination.  “We shall always march along.” 
    • -War.  “We shall hack, kill and core” 
    • -Victory over enemies.  “Forward we drive, breaking the records” 
  •  5.Cite one social and one economic activity of the community from which this oral poem is taken. (4 marks) Singing, / warfare, suitable  illustration
    • Ironsmithing.  Helmet iron etc
  • 6.Who would be the most suitable audience for the oral poem? Give reasons for your answer. (2 marks)
    • Fighters/raiders/soldiers/warriors. To instill courage and bravery as they prepare to go for war. 
  • 7. Why are the soldiers likened to machines. (1 mark)
    • To bring out their ruthlessness/lack of compassion etc
  • 8. Describe the mood of the poem. (2 marks)
    • Satirical.  It ridicules/satirizes/mocks war and how it leads to warmongers, senseless killings etc
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FOOTPATH - KCSE POETRY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

2/6/2019

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FOOTPATH - KCSE POETRY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Read the poem below and answer the questions that follow. (20 marks)
​Footpath
Path – let … Leaving home, leading out
Return my mother to me.
The sun is sinking and darkness coming,
Hens and cocks are already inside and babies drowsing,
Return my mother to me.
We do not have firewood and I have not seen the lantern,
There is no more food and the water has run out
Path – let me pray, you return my mother to me.
Path of the small hills, path of the small stones
Path of slipperiness, path of the mud
Return my mother to me.
Path of papyrus, path of the rivers
Path of small forests, path of reeds
Return my mother to me
Path, I implore you, return my mother to me
Path of the crossways, path that branches off,

Path of the stringing shrubs, path of the bridge
Return my mother to me
Path of the open, path of the valley
Path of the steep climb, path of the downward slope 
Return my mother to me.
Children are drowsing about to sleep,
Darkness is coming and there is no firewood,
And I have not found the lantern;
Return my mother to me.
~ Stella Ngatho.

QUESTIONS

  • ​(a) Who is the persona in this poem? (2 marks)
  • (b) Identify and explain the effectiveness of any two stylistic devices. (6 marks)
  • (c) What is the tone of the poem? (2 marks) 
  • (d) What is the mood of the poem? (2 marks) 
  • (e) Comment on the title of the poem. (2 marks)
  • (f) With illustrations, briefly state three problems that the persona is facing. (3 marks)
  • (g) Describe the setting of this poem. (3 marks)

MARKING SCHEME

  • ​a) The persona is a child – perhaps an older child – whose mother is away. The child is longing   for her return. ‘Return my mother to me’. (2mks)
  • b) Repetition – ‘Path’ is repeated severally, to create the tone of the poem/ emphasis on the cause of the mother’s absence.
    • Personification – the paths are personified; the speaker begs them to return the mother.
    • Apostrophe – Path ... Return my mother to me…- to show the persona’s desperate longing for the mother
    • Metaphor- path of papyrus... path of small hills etc.-shows the various places or challenges the persona or mother may have faced/ indicates the various paths the mother could have taken as she went out 
    • (Expect any two well illustrated styles + the effectiveness 3marks for each.  No mark for lack of one of these).
  • c) The poem has a  pleading / imploring / beseeching tone. ‘..Path, I implore you, return my mother to me. (2mks)
  • d) The poem is in a sad mood. One feels sad at the concern and despair of the child who   pleads for the mother’s return. (2mks)
  • e) The title is appropriate as it leads us to the events in the poem. The persona addresses the footpath requested it to return the mother. (2mks)
  • f) No food -There is no more food
    • No water- and the water has run out
    • No firewood -We do not have firewood
    • Missing the mother -Return my mother to me (Any 3 points @1mk)
  • g) The poem is set in a home stead and is in the evening. ‘The sun is sinking and darkness coming,’/ ‘Hens and cocks are already inside and babies drowsing,’ (3 marks)
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A Sudden Storm: Pius Oleghe - ENGLISH POETRY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

2/6/2019

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​A Sudden Storm: Pius Oleghe

Read the poem below and then answer the questions that follow (20 marks)
​The wind howls, the trees sway,
The loose house-top sheets clatter and clang,
The open window shuts with a bang,
And the sky makes night of day.

Helter-skelter the parents run,
Pressed with a thousand minor cares:
‘Hey, you there! Pack the house hold wares!
And where on earth is my son?’

Home skip the little children:
‘Where have you been you naughty boy?’
The child can feel nothing but joy,
For he loves the approach of the rain.

The streets clear, the houses fill, 
The noise gathers as children shout 
To rival the raging wind without,
And naught that can move is still-

A bright flash! – alighted plain;
Then from the once-blue heavens,
Accompanied by noise that deafens,
Steadily pours the rain

QUESTIONS

  • ​(a) Who is the speaker in the above poem? Illustrate your answer.          (2 marks)
  • (b) Describe what happens just before rain pours down.         (4 marks)
  • (c) State and explain the different reactions of the children and their parents as brought out in the   poem. (3 marks)
  • (d) List any four pairs of words that rhyme in the above poem.         (2 marks)
  • (e) Who is being addressed in the above poem? Support your answer.                   (2 marks)
  • (f) From the above poem, pick out any six words which describe sound?         (3 marks)
  • (g) What does the poet mean when he says: (2 marks)
    • The noise gathers as children shout,
    • To rival the raging wind without,?         
  • (h) Write down the lines that prove that there is a great confusion in the poem.        (2 marks)
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REPRISE - ENGLISH POETRY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

2/6/2019

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REPRISE - ENGLISH POETRY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

​Read the poem and then answer the questions that follow:
Reprise
Geniuses of countless nations 
Have told their love for generations
Till all their memorable phrases
Are common as goldenrod or daisies.
Their girls have glimmered like the moon,
Or shimmered like a summer noon,
Stood like lily, fled like fawn,
Now the sunset, now the dawn,
Here the princess in the tower
There the sweet forbidden flower.
Darling, when I look at you
Every aged phrase is the new
And there are moments when it seems
I’ve married one of Shakespeare’s dreams.

QUESTIONS

(i)  Describe the rhyme scheme in this poem and say what it does. (4 marks)
(ii) Identify and illustrate any two instances of alliteration in the poem. (2 marks)
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