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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
NEXT >> THE SMILING ORPHARN
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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 
NEXT >> AFRICA
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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)
next >> the earth
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death is a witch - kcse english poetry questions and answers

5/6/2019

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previously << the PAUPER

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)
NEXT >> THE OUTCAST
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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.
Picture
NEXT >> DEATH IS A WITCH
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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”
NEXT >> PAUPER
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the inmates - kcse english poetry questions and answers

4/6/2019

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PREVIOUSLY << LIES BEHIND BEAUTY

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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PREVIOUSLY >> BLOOD IRON

​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. 
NEXT >> LIES BEHIND BEAUTY
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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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catherine - poetry questions and answers

1/6/2019

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CATHERINE - POETRY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

​Read the poem below and answer the questions that follow:-
  Made for pure pleasure
  Like buds two wonderful to name
  Miracles unfold
  And Catherine wheels begin to flame
  Like a whirling marigold
  Rockets and Roman candles make 
  An orchard of the sky
  Whence magic trees their petals shake
  Upon each gazing eye

QUESTIONS

​  i.    Describe the rhyme scheme of this poem. (2marks)
  ii.   Using examples, explain how rhythm has been achieved in this poem. (4 Marks)
  iii.  What kind of facial expressions would you exhibit when reciting the poem? (2mks)
  iv.   Which words would you stress in line one and why?  (2 marks)

MARKING SCHEME

i)     abcdcdede- Irregular
ii)    Rhyme – name, flame, 
        -sky, eye
        shake, make
        Alliteration- pure, pleasure- consonant p is  repeated, 
        Rockets and  Roman- r  is  repeated.
iii)   Wear a happy face while reciting line 1 – Made for pure pleasure.
        Stare  at  a  particular  point  to  indicate  gazing  point.
iv)   Made, pure, pleasure – They are content words- they  carry  the  meaning  of  the  sentence.
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Only For a While: Esther Njeri M - POETRY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

1/6/2019

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​Only For a While: Esther Njeri M - POETRY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

​Read the following poem and answer the questions that follow.
Here in school we are shining bright
Never in darkness always in light
We will all be here for a short while
What matters is we go that extra mile

Time is precious, time is priceless
Waste time become useless
We have to make the most of it while we are here
Or else we will suffer the consequences which are dear

For four hours we shall together
Working together in unity
Striving to reach our desired goals 
Growing academically and spiritually.

questions

a) Describe the rhyme scheme of the poem above. (3mks)
b) How has rhythm been achieved in the above poem? (4mks)
c) How would you say the line ‘For four years we have together’ (3mks)

marking scheme

(a)  aa  bb  cc  dd  ef  gh √ 2mks
           Irregular rhyme scheme √ 1mk
(b) (i) Rhyme
           √ Bright – Light
           √While – Mile
           √Priceless – Useless
           √Academically – Spiritually
      (ii) Repeating
‘Time’ is repeated (I mark to identify, I mark illustrates)
(c) Use my fingers to show ‘four’ √ 1mk
      Stress the word ‘years’ √ 1mk
      Say the line in a falling intonation √ 1mk
      Put palms together to show, togetherness.
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BACK HOME -POETRY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

1/6/2019

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BACK HOME -POETRY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

​Read the poem below and then answer the questions. (20mks)
BACK HOME

And one day I went back home:
Back home to the old homestead
With a ring of old huts
Surrounding a wide compound:

Swept clean for children to play
And yell and laugh and cry.
I walked briskly, thinking of home
Smoke rising from the huts
Filtered through the thatched roofs:

Dripping wet after a shower of rain;
Moist ground in the compound,
Grandpa sitting on his stool
and sipping from his gourd;
Birds singing in the mango tree:

 And then finally I reached home:
The air heavy with silence
Huts, down in dry heaps of dilapidation
Shoots of scorched elephant grass:
Growing piously in the compound:

A carpet of mango leaves
Falling on the mound of earth
Under which was buried but the tip
Yes, only the tip of grandpa’s walking staff
Could be seen peeping from under the earth:

Pointing down to where the owner lay;
The lasting indication
Of his inability to talk again
Except by echoes of silence
Telling me I went back too late:
Jwani Mwaikusa.

QUESTIONS

(a) Describe the setting in this poem. (2 marks)
(b) Who is the persona in the poem? (2 marks)
(c) Where is grandpa? Give reasons for your answer. (2 marks)
(d) What is the effect of the alliteration in line 17? (2 marks)
(e) Giving two examples, show the effect of contrast as used by the poet. (4 marks)
(f) Identify and illustrate the two different moods prevailing in this poem. (4 marks)
(g) Explain the meaning of the following lines as used in the poem. (4 marks)
     (i) ‘A carpet of mango leaves
          Falling on the mound of earth”
     (ii) ‘Of his inability to talk again
          Except by echoes of silence”

MARKING SCHEME

(a) The setting is in a rural area√ 1   — the persona talks of huts/homestead. √ 1  
(b) The persona is a grandson / granddaughter / grandchildl — talks of grandpa. √ 1  
(c) Grandpa is dead√1 because we are told that the walking staff was buried under a mound of earth and it 
pointed to where the owner lay. √ 1 The staff peeped from under the earth where the owner lay. √ 1  
(d) The alliteration is - huts/heaps- down/dry/dilapidation or /h/and /d/.√ 1  The alliteration creates 
mood/rhythm/suspense. √ 1  
(e) The first three stanzas contrast with the last three.
(i) The memory of children “playing and yelling laughing and crying” is contrasted with “The air heavy 
with silence”. The effect of this is to create a sense of foreboding/fear. Showing or warns that 
something is amiss/wrong. √2
(ii) “A wide compound swept clean for children to play” is contrasted with “shoots of scorched elephant 
grass growing piously in the compound/”a carpet of mango leaves”. Their effect is an indication of 
neglect or that something is wrong. √2
(iii) “Smoke rising from the huts” is contrasted with “Huts down in dry heaps of dilapidation”. This 
warns of a disaster/danger. √2
(iv) “Grandpa sitting on his stool” is contrasted with “Grandpa lying under the earth” i.e. dead. This 
contrast creates atmosphere/mood. √2
Generally each contrast has the effect of changing mood. (2 marks each x = 4 marks)
(f) The first mood is foundin the 1st stanza. It is nostalgic. √ l The persona describes the home with fond 
memories e.g. children, yelling, laughing and crying or “birds singing in the mango tree”. √l
The second mood is found in the 4” stanza. It is sad/solemn. √l With the death of grandpa the homestead 
has collapsed. √l
(g) Lines
(i) “A carpet of mango leaves falling on the mound of earth”, means a great number of leaves falling on 
the grave. √2
(ii) “Of his inability to talk again except by echoes of silence”. This emphasises that grandpa is dead and 
that the persona will never hear him talk again. √2
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​SUNSET - POETRY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

29/5/2019

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​SUNSET

The sun spun like
a tossed coin.
It whirled on the azure sky,
it clattered into the horizon,
it clicked in the slot,
and neon lights popped 
and blinked `time expired`,
as on a parking meter.
(Oswald Mbuyiseni: Mtshali)

Questions

  • i) Describe the rhyme scheme of this poem. (2marks)
  • ii) How would you say the last line of this poem (2marks)
  • iii) State any two onomatopoeic words in the poem (2marks)
  • iv) Identify any other sound pattern used in the poem. (1mark)
  • v) State and illustrate three non-verbal cues that you would use to make the recitation of the above poem more meaningful and interesting. (3marks)

ANSWERS

Oral poem.
  • i) adcdefg √ 1mk 
        irregular rhyme scheme √ 1mk
  • ii) the line would be said slowly and softly – end of the day
                falling intonation – show finality.
  • iii) Popped
                 Blinked
                 Whirled
                 Clattered
                 Clicked any 2 (2 marks)
  • iv) Alliteration – sun  spun
                 Assonance – sun spun   √1mk
  • v) Use of gestures – illustrate where and when 
               Facial expressions       “
               Tonal variation            “
               Dramatize       “
               Keep eye conduct       “                          Any 3 (3 marks)
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Wedding Eve - POETRY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

24/5/2018

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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

  1. Comment on the title of this poem.  [3 marks]
  2. Explain the dilemma of speaker in the first stanza. [2 marks]
  3. What is the speaker’s attitude towards their relationship?
  4. Discuss and illustrate two character traits of the persona. [4 marks]
  5. Comment on the imagery of the plane. [3 marks]
  6. Explain how the relationship is compared to a game of chess. [3 marks]
  7. Explain the meaning of the following line: leaving the naked me. [3 marks]
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The Necklace - POETRY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

23/5/2018

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THE NECKLACE

Read 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

  1. How relevant is the title of the poem above? (2 marks)
  2. Describe the character of the executionists  in the poem  (2 marks)
  3. What was needed to carry out the execution? (3 marks)
  4. Explain the difference in the use of the word “form” in stanza one and stanza three (2 marks)
  5.  
    1. Who is the persona? (1 mark)
    2. What deters the persona from getting closer to the scene of action?  (1 mark)
  6. Explain the meaning of the following phrases as used in the poem (3 marks)
    1. Smell of sizzling flesh
    2. Each participant ready and anxious
    3. Witnessed to an unwritten law
  7. What mood is portrayed in the poem? (2 marks)
  8. Paraphrase the last stanza (4 marks)
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Song of Agony - POETRY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

22/5/2018

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SONG OF AGONY

​Read 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

  1. Who is the persona in the poem? Explain. (2 marks)
  2. Briefly discuss the subject matter in this poem. (3 marks)
  3. Identify two stylistic devices in the poem and show their effectiveness. (4 marks)
  4. Show how the persona and the others suffer in the poem. Illustrate your answer. (4 marks)
  5. What is the dominant mood in the poem? (2 marks)
  6. Is the title of this poem suitable? Explain (3 marks)
  7. Identify and explain one economic activity practiced by the persona’s community.
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mwananchi - POETRY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

21/5/2018

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MWANANCHI

​Read 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

  1. Identify the persona in the poem.  (2 marks)
  2. What is the message of the poem?  (4 marks)
  3. Identify and comment on any two aspects of style in the poem. (6 marks)
  4. Describe the tone of the poem.   (2 marks)
  5. Identify and illustrate two character traits of Mwananchi.   (4 marks)
  6. Explain the meaning of the following words and phrases as used in the poem.  (2 marks)
    1. Inflated stomach
    2. Scare you out of your wits.
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IN THE CITY - POETRY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

20/5/2018

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In the city

POETRY (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

  1. Who is the persona in the poem? (2 marks)
  2. Briefly describe what the poem is about. (3 marks)
  3. Explain the significance of the first line in the poem.      (2 marks)
  4. Identify the aspect of style used in stanza six and show its effectiveness. (3 marks)
  5. Describe the kind of society presented in this poem.       (2 marks)
  6. What is the tone of the poem? Support your answer. (3 marks)
  7. Identify and discuss the use of sarcasm in the second-last stanza. (3 marks)
  8. Explain the meaning of the following lines in the poem. (2 marks)
    1. Africa is in a state of opportunity
    2. The pillar of the nation
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