Poetry Questions and Answers

Read 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 Answers

Read 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

Poetry Questions and Answers

Read the song below and then answer the questions that follow.

                From NaomKipury, Oral literature of the Maasai

                Notes:      1. To prevent them from being discovered.

                                2. Name of a cow.