1994
"Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes,youCan see more clearly than ever. It's like the tideGoing out revealing whatever has been thrown away And sunk; broken bottles, old gloves,rustingPop-cans, nibbled fish bodi…
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1994 JAMB UTME Literature In English Past Questions
1994
"Stream of consciousness" is the name for
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1994
What basically distinguishes Literature from other disciplines is its
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1994
"Marjorie turns to the fish, They swim slicklyBackwards and forwards in the bright heaven ofTheir tanks:'white gravel,silver bubbles,green weed and the iridescence of their scales.TheyCheer her. How much more beautiful f…
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1994
"In the cold hand of death...His mouth was cotton filled, his man-pikeShrunk to a sub-soil grubHis head was hallowed and his brainOn scales-was this a trick to proveFore-knowledge after death?"Based on Wole Soyinka's ''…
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1994
"Full fathom five thy father liesOf his bones are corals madeThose are pearls that were his eyesNothing of him that doth fade."The rhyme scheme of the above stanza is
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1994
"Here lies our sovereign Lord the King,Whose word no man relies on,Who never said a foolish thingNor ever did a wise one,"Based on John Wilmot Rochester's Epitaph on King Charles 11, the form of the above stanza is an ex…
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1994
"The poet needs to be up at night,when the worldSleeps...needs to exist in places where spidersForge their webs in silence;near the gutters whereThe underside of our dreams fester."Based on Ben Okri's 'Of Poets and their…
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1994
"He considers also a little fragile,because artistic:I need to be cared for, like a potted plant. A littlePruning, a little watering, a little weeding andStraightening up to bring out the best in me."Based on Margaret At…
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