SECTION A - POETRY Read the poem below and use it to answer question 1 (a) to (f. On aging When you see me sitting quietly, Like a sack left on the shelf, Don't think | need your chattering, : I'm listening to myself. Hold! Stop! Don't pity mel! Hold! Stop! your sympathy! Understanding if you got it! Otherwise I'll do without it! When my bones are stiff and aching And my feet won't climb the stairs, | will only ask one favor: Don't bring me a rocking chair. ‘When you see me walking, stumbling, Don't study and get it wrong. ‘Cause tired don’t mean lazy And every goodbye ain't gone. I'm the same person | was back then, Alittle less hair, a little less chin, A lot less lungs and much less wind, But ain't | lucky | can still breathe. Adapted from Worldscapes by Robin Malan. 499123,(a) (b) (c) 403123 w Give two rhyming words from the fir stanza, (il) What function does rhyme serve ina poem? (iil) What does the poet intend to achieve by using the words “hold! Stop! hold! Stop!” in the first stanza? (1) Quote a line from the first stanza where the poet compares herself to an object and explain what the comparison means. .- (3)| Which category of poems does this poem fall under? Give an explanation for your answer. lex(a) Which statement in she is not about to die? (e) What is the example from the poem (fy What lesson the poem indicates tha’ emotional state of the poel can be learned from this poem? tt even though the poet j, 1? Support your answer with an is in that state. and say why the poetSECTION A - POETRY (15 Marks) =~ Read the poem below and use it to answer question 1 (a) to (i) FOLLOWER Seamus Heaney My father worked with a horse plough, His shoulders globed like a full sail strung Between the shafts and the furrow. The horses nervous at his Clicking tongue. An expert. He would set the wing And fit the bright-pointed sock. The sod rolled over without breaking. At the head rig, with a single pluck. Of reins, the Sweating team turned round And back into the land. His eye Narrowed and angled at the ground, Mapping the furrow exactly. | stumbled in his hobnailed wake, Fell sometimes on the polished turf: Sometimes he rode me on his back Dipping and rising to his plod. | wanted to grow up and plough, To close one eye, stiffen my arm. All | ever did was follow In his broad shadow around the farm. Iwas a nuisance, tripping, falling, Yapping always. But today Itis my father who keeps stumbling Behind me, and will not go away. }a. Describe the structure of the poem, Give a pair of thyming words from stanza 1. (1) ©. Identify simile from Stanza 1. + (1) d. “Of reins, the sweating team turned around” which poetic device has been used in this line? What is its function? .. (2) e. Give one thing the son likes about his father in the poem. Support your answer with evidence from the poem. f. What does the word stumbled tell us about the boy? (1)g. “All ever did was follow... F In his broad shadow around the farm’ 's atti ds his What do the two lines suggest about the boy's attitude towar father? h. Briefly explain the last stanza, i. Name one theme from the poem, Justify your answer with evidence from the poem? (2)Last lesson of the Afternoon. ‘When will the bell ring and end this weariness? How long have they tugged the leash and strained apart My pack of unruly hounds I cannot start ‘Them again on a quarry of knowledge they hate to hunt, I can haul them and urge them no more. No longer now can I endure the brunt Of the books that lie out on the desks, a full threescore Of several insults of blotted pages, and scrawl Of slovenly work that they have offered me. Lam sick, and what on earth is the good of it all? ‘What good to them or me. I cannot see! So, shall I take the toll Of their insults in punishment? -I will not! - I will not waste my sole and my strength for this. ‘What do I care for what all they do amiss? ‘What is the point of this searching of mine, and of this Ieaming of theirs of theirs? It all goes the same abyss What does it matter to me if they can write A description of a dog, or if they can’t? What is the point? To us both it is all my aunt! ‘And yet I'm supposed to care, with all my might. 1 do not, and will not: they won't and they don’t: and that all! I shall keep my strength for myself; they can keep theirs as well. Why should we beat our heads against the wall of each other? I shall sit and wait for the bell. DH Lawence. Use the poem above to respond to the following questions 1 What is the setting for this poem? 2)‘ois the persona in this poem? a) 3, Why does he want the bell to ring? 0 4. ‘No longer now can I endure the brunt Of books that lie out on the desks’ What is the meaning of the above expression as used by the persona in this poe? 0) 5, State and explain the tone used by the persona throughout this poem? Q) 6. With an example explain the mood of the poem? 2) 7, What is the structure of this poem? 2]8. Quote a line which shows that the students in the poem do not like Education. 0] 9. Identify any two pairs of rhyming words from this poem. 10 What is the moral lesson of this poem? 2] 0SECTION a; POETRY (15 MaRKs) the poem below ang 48e it to answer the ‘questions that follow, THE SPIDER lm like an acrobat, ' climb the air Out of myself spinning The frail thread of my stair I build a round house, a house of silk Itis a glittering diamond snare When the morning sun quivers upon Dew drops hanging there. Fm an ogre. | sit in a comer and wait, Someone comes blundering by And in my sik is ensnared- A helpless, 9oggling fly. More and more come. My larder is full of meat... On my spindly legs Trun out And | eat and | eat and | eat. Olive Dove a. Give the name of the poet in the poem “The Spider’? b. What is the Structure of the poem? .. (2) ©. Give two pairs of thyming words. (2)wry tie d. Whois, the persona in the poem? + (1) & Pick the following poetic devices from the poem. @ — Simile (1) (i) Repetition (1) f. I'man Ogre. Which poetic device is this? (1) 9. Whats the spider making with the “frail thread ...? (1) h. Give the mood of the poem? Sy; ipport your answer with an example from the Poem. (i) According to the Poem, what do spiders feed on? (1) (ii) What are your feelings about the animals that the spider feeds on? Support your answer,JESTION 1: POETRY (15 marks) id the poem below and answer the questions that follow Mbuyiseni Oswald Mtshali Faces furrowed and wet with sweat, Bags tied to their wasp waists Women reapers bend mealie stalks Break cobs in rustling sheaths Toss them in the bags and move through row upon row of maize, Behind them, like a desert tanker, A dust-raising tractor Pulls a trailer, driven by a pipe-puffing man flashing tobacco-stained teeth as yellow as the harvested grain. He stops to pick bags loaded by thick —limbed labourers in vests baked brown with dust the sun lashes the workers with a red-hot rod; they stop for a while to wipe a brine-bathed brow and drink from battered cans bubbling with malty maheu thirst is slaked in seconds, Men jerk bags like feather cushions and women become prancing wild mares; soon the day’s work will be done and the reapers will rest in the kraals a) Whois the poet? (1)b) Identify a simile from stanza 2 and explain it (2) c) Whatis the structure of the poem? (1) q) “the sun lashes the workers with a red-hot rod” (i) Which poetic device has been used here? (1) (ii) Whatis its function as used in the poem? (1) e) Give an example of alliteration from the third stanza. (1) f) Describe the work of the women reapers. (2)g) Identify any theme and support your answer with evidence from the poem. (2) h) What is the mood of the poem? Justify your answer. (2) i) What are your feelings towards the labourers? Give a reason for your answer. (2)SECTION A POETRY Read ‘ead the poem below and use it to answer questions (a) and ( g) My Husband’s Tongue is Bitter My clansmen, I cry Listen to my voice; The i o insults of my man are painful beyond bearing. My husband abuses me together with my parents; He says terrible things about my mother : And I am so ashamed! He abuses me in English And he is soarrogant. He says I am rubbish, He no longer wants me! In cruel jokes, he laughs at me, He says I am primitive Because I cannot play the guitar, He says my eyes are dead And I cannot read, He says my eyes are block And J cannot hear a single That I cannot count coins. He says I cannot count the coi The fool. ed foreign word, ins, f [am no longer @ person, like the ojuw insects that sit on the beer pot. me roughly. Ocol treats me as i He says I am silly My husband treats The insults! ; Words cut more painfully he sticks! mother is a witch, ee Ms elansmen are fools because they He says we are all Kaffirs. We do not know the ways of God. ‘We sit in deep darkness and do not kn He says my mother ides her charms i ‘And that we are all sorcerers: eat rats, know the Gospel, in her necklace 15 MARKsMy husband tongue’s bitter li itis hot ike as ie Tie stbe homely, Like the sting of the kalang! Ocol’s tongue is fierce like the arow of the scorpion Deadly like the spear of the buffalo—homet. Itis ferocious like the poison of a barren woman And corrosive like the juice ofthe gourd. Adapted from “Songof Lawino” by Okotp'Bitek 1 (a Who is the persona in this poem? 0) (b) (i) Identify and explain simile in the last stanza, (2) (©) Describe Ocol’s character and your answer with two examples from the poem. By (& Quote two lines from the stanza four which shows that the husband's tongue is bitter.My husband tongue’s bitter like the roots of the /yonno lily, Itis hot like the penis of the bee, Like the sting of the kalang! Ocol's tongue is fierce like the arrow of the scorpion, Deadly like the spear of the buffalo ~ hornet. It is ferocious like the poison of a barren woman And corrosive like the juice of the gourd. Adapted from “Songof Lawino” by Okotp’Bitek 1 (2) Who is the persona in this poem? a) (b) (i) Identify and explain simile inthe last stanza. 2] (c) Describe Ocol’s character and your answer with two examples from the poem. 13] (4) Quote two lines from the stanza four which shows that the husband’s tongue is bitter.(2) (c) Which technique has been used in the following phrase; “He says 1 am rubbish.” = Metaphor 0) (£) Identify and explain the theme of this poem. —Rejectma — Abuse eT lige. eenp2 ler pusband fold fer trot she no Longer (2) F ee We GAYS Wr hus on? Toa eTRaee Tat arreg i (g) Categorise this poem and give a reason to your answer. Biueo Te endl nia experi eres Abuse fine tis F Yoo _ussband J {2 (h) What is the mood of this poem? Support your answer with evidence from ‘the poem. oad = The wife 1s bua \nontte) ley ta Wasband) | roy led {21 [15 marks}SECTION A Read the poem below and answer question | ‘An abandoned bundle The morning mist And chimney smoke Of white Jabavu Flowed thick yellow As pus oozing From a gigantic sore It smothered our little houses Like fish caught in a net Scavenging dos Draped in red bandanas of blood Fought fiercely For a squirming bundle. I threw a brick; They bared fangs Flicked velvet tongues of scarlet And scurried away, Leaving a mutilated corpse- An infant dumped on a rubbish heap- Oh baby in the Manger Sleep well On human dung Its mother Had melted in to the rays of the rising of the sun, Her face glittering with innocence Her heart as pure as untrampled dew. By Mbuyiseni Oswald Mtshali Adapted from: world scrapes, oxford University Press “ea 15 MARKSy QUESTIONS 1.a)Who is the persona? Support your answer with evidence from the poem. (2) (b)With two relevant examples discuss the mood of this poem? (3) (©) Identify a simile in stanza two and explain what it means. 2) (@) From the last stanza, quote expressions that show that the mother ofthe abandoned bundle had the following i) pretence (ly) ii) not caring () iit) guilt (1)| (©)Briefly explain what is happening in stanza three (©) What are your feelings towards the bundle. Explain your answer. @) (2)SECTION A POETRY (15 Marks) Read the poem below and use it to answer question 1 (a) to (g)- Phenomenal Woman 'walk into a room Just as cool as you please, And to aman, The fellows stand or Fall down on their knees. Then they swarm around me, Ahhive of honey bees. Isay, It’s the fire in my eyes, And the flash of my teeth, The swing in my waist, And the joy in my feet. I'ma woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me. Men themselves have wondered What they see in me. They try so much But they can’t touch My inner mystery. When | try to show them, They say they still can’t see, I say, It's in the arch of my back, The sun of my smile, ; The ride of my breasts, The grace of my style. I'ma woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That’s me. Now you understand Just why my head’s not bowed. 'don’t shout or jump about Or have to talk real loud. ‘When you see me passing, neeIt ought to make you proud, I say, Its in the click of my heels, The bend of my hair, the palm of my hand, The need for my care, ‘Cause I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That’s me. Adapted from Phenomenal woman; Maya Angelou, @. Give two pairs of thyming words from stanza 1 and2 Stanza1. Se Stanza2 (2 marks) ee en eset ini b. Pick a metaphor from stanza 2 and explain what it means. (2marks) ¢. Give one character trait that the persona displays when she says “I walk into a room just as cool as you please”. (1 mark) d. i. Identify repetition in stanzas 1 and 2. (1mark) ji, Explain its function in the poem. (1 mark)Explain the men’s attitudes towards the woman in stanza 1. Give relevant examples from the poem. = (2 marks) What is the mood of the poem? Support your answer with relevant explanation. (2marks) . i, How can this poem be classified? (1mark) ii. Give a reason for your answer in g (i) above. (1mark) |. What is the tone of the poem? Support your answer with an explanation. (2marks)[15 MARKS] S tions 1(a) to (9)- SECTION A - POETRY Langston Hughes Read the poem below and use it to answer quest Mother to son Well, son, I'l tell you: Life for me ain't been no crystal stair. It's had tacks in it, And splinters, ‘And boards tom up, ‘And places with no carpet on the floor— Bare. But all the time ve been a-climbing on, And reaching landings, ‘And turing comers, ‘And sometimes going in the dark Where there ain't been no light. So boy, don’t you turn back. Don't you set down on the steps Because you finds it’s kinder hard. Don't you fall now... For I see you still going, honey, I see you still climbing, And life for me ain't been no crystal stair. Adapted from Seasons come to pass QUESTIONS + (@) Which figurative expression has been used throughout the poem? Quote one example to support your answer. 2) (b) State the persona in the poem. (1)(c) What is the structure of the poem? (2) (d) Give example of repetition in the poem and its function in the poem; (2) (e) What does the poet suggest when he says “And life for me ain't been no crystal stair.” 2) (f) What is the tone of the poem? Support your answer with an example from the poem. 2) (g) What are your feelings towards the persona? Support your answer with a relevant explanation. 2) (h) State the theme of the poem. Justify your answer with a relevant example. (2)1SMARKS, POETRY Astorm Emily Dickinson ‘The wind began to rock the grass With threatening tunes and low, He flung a menace at the earth, A menace at the sky. The leaves unhooked themselves from trees And started all abroad; The dust did scoop itself like hands ‘And throw away the road. The wagons quickened on the streets, The thunder hurried slow; ‘The lightening showed a yellow beak And then a livid claws. The birds put up the bars to nests, The cattle fled the barns; There came one drop of giant rain, ‘And then , as if the hands That held the dams had parted hold, The waters wrecked the sky, But overlooked my father’s house Just quartering a tree. QUESTIONS 1 What is the structure of the poem? (1) 2. Which poetic device has been used in the statement ‘he flung a menace at the earth? ()3.What in is Sound image is found in line three and four of stanza one? O) ‘4-What poetic device is found in the last two lines of stanza 2 ,explain it, (2) 5. Give a pair of rhyming words from the following stanza Stanza 2 and Stanza 3, and Q) 6. i) What two things are represented by the metaphor ‘the lightning showed a yellow beak’ qd) ii) Explain what is common about the two. (1) 7. Explain the expression ‘the birds put up the bars to rest’ in your own words and why they did that. (2)SECTION A- POETRY Read the poem below and. use Ito anéwer questions 1(a) to (h). HOSPITALS! She was fine till April, my child in my belly. I had not wanted her creation. Then by Christmas, love swept into my heart. She would be, but my rose. Iwas, but a 17-year-old gift. Living with an old grandmother, in an old mud hut. "You're going to have a child, my dear?, How bravel You should be in school.” School | did attend, Until month eight. “You cannot come anymore! You need the hospital!” I did go to hospital. They told me in hospital, "Your little girl is no more” I hate hospitals! A little girl. And | do! where she is buried! I hate hospitals! Adeipted from: Poetry Collection by Barbra Faith.(a) (b) ( @) ©) 199107 Pick a metaphor from stanza 1. What is the significance of the word ‘but’ in stanza 1? ‘Support your answer with an explanation. State two contrasting feelings the persona portrays in stanza 1. ‘Support each with an explanation. w i) Give one character trait that the grandmother shows when she says “how brave’. Suggest a reason why the grandmother was shocked by the persona's situation, Give the purpose of the re petition of th Justify your answer. phrase | hate hospitals!m. Support your answer with an exampn. (g) Identify the mood in the poe! (h) What type of poem is “Hospitals!"? Give a reason for your answer.QUESTION ONE POETRY [15 MARKS] Read the poem below and a inswer th THE COLOUR OF oun n the questions that follow, In my innocence | went out into the world ‘ager to learn all the lessons | can hold ‘The things I'd learn I'd love to share Alas, people found me to be quite bold. \ distinctly felt the tension in the air When I was little and went toa fair It was outside the town where | grew up People stared at us head to foot and kinky hair. I shrugged my shoulders, I did not mind | wanted to play with kids that were kind But their folks did not like a coloured child Touch skin to skin with their children, later I'd find. learned the first lesson about discrimination The hard way, from a small child’s perception Iwill fight for my right with all my night Thus | vowed unto myself with all determination. ‘And so from that day on, | pushed for emancipation From the shackles of a closed mind, a liberation How dare you think I’m lower than you are When our blood is the same colour red, under examination. We have come a long way indeed, | know For now we can vote. To a master we need not know Freedom from slavery, gained through sweat and blood Our children can now speak without fear to friends and foes. Greater minds have walked these hollowed halls Thou what | can aspire to be with my bold balls However sir, that won't stop me honestly From continuing to speak my voice, no matter your stall. Now sir, tell me, what is the reason you cannot grant Before | make another speech, but not a rant Is it not only fair that you declare equal rate For black or white, as long as he deserves it and not ignorant? Anonymous{y 2. With the aid of examples explain what the poem Is about. (4 Give three pairs of rhyming words from the poem. 13] 4 Inyour own words explain any three concerns ralsed in the poem. 8] 5: What poetic device has been used in the phrased ‘hollowed Halls'? [1] § Bo you think this is 2 happy or sad poem? Give a reason for your answer, (2) 7. What is the moral lesson of this poem?SECTION A — POETRY Read the poem below and use it to answer question 1 (a) to (9)- The end of the world | was but nine years old ‘When | caught the rumour that ran around From ear to ear in the school playground That someone's father or someone's friend Knew the hour when the world would end Terror took hold As | heard it told. All the way home, and in bed | thought of the awful day that would come; The sick world trembling like a drum, Then all on fire, and cries and groans, With the stars falling like huge hail stones, And the moon blood-red As the Bible said. The day dawned and the sky Grew dire with a north-west glare and gloom | saw the signs and the arch of doom As tremblingly to school | trod To wait the hour of the anger of God But the day went by, And | did not die. The world's end was not yet And | was glad, but would | have been If the child had seen what the man has seen? O! When will this monstrous spinning top, Wheeled in its trancelike circuit, stop And the last sun set On its fume and fret? x (15 Marks Adapted from Creations. An anthology of Poetry for Secondary Schools by M. Scott(b) "Identity a pair of rh ming words from Stanza 3 and explain the function of thyme in the poem: (6) How does the poet think the world would end? (@) “Grew dire with a north-west glare and gloom” (i) What poetic device has been used in the figurative expression? (ii) Explain what the expression means. () Whats the m: ‘od of this poem? Support your answer with an example from the poem. (2) (1) (1) - (2)(f) What feelings does the poet display in Stanza 4 and why? Support your answer with evidence from the poem. (g) What does the poet suggest when he says “But the day went by’? Justify your answer with a relevant explanation.(15 MARKS) SECTION A - POETRY ; stions 1. Read the poem below and use it to answer que! by Edgar A. Guest A Character: “Bill was a character,” we maintained ‘And now he's dead ‘And since the day his spirit departed 'have been wondering what we meant A character! His word was good With all throughout his neighbourhood His ways were gentle and smiled Much like a child He never flattered anyone for gain ‘Or spoke to cause pain And yet he wasn't aware of his admirers For sixty long years he was genuine He had an unusual and funny way of life And loved to smile He seemed to love nature: birds and trees And rejoiced in the morning breeze Out in the open he'd declare That he could find God everywhere He never rose to wealth or fame But everything is the same He brought a touch of gentle grace To this poor weather beaten place A Character! That’s what we maintained But we shall miss him now that he’s dead, Adapted from An Anthology of poetry from Africa and other lands| Questions } 1(@) who is the Persona? ! (1) (0) Identify a simite from stanza two and explain its meaning (2) (C) Mention two things from stanza 4 that Bill loved. (2) (d) Give a pair of thyming words in stanza 5, i. (1) Explain the function of the poetic device above. ii. (1) (€) What poetic device is used in the last Stanza? Suggest what it Portrays. (3) f) What is the meaning of the “xPression Never flattered anyone for gain? 2) ————_(g) What is the mood of the poem? Support your answer with a relevant example. (2) (h) Classify the above poem. ()SECTION A - POETRY ‘Study the poem below and answer the questions that follow. Urban Woman In your small house in the location You wake at four to cook breakfast Maize meal porridge with sugar and milk The energy for your children to go to school Your anxious mood as head of the family As up and down hills you hurry to work Dirty dishes and bundles of washing ‘Awaiting you for less than ten dollars a day You stand there thinking where to begin, To ease your work that stiffens your muscles To comfort your heart for your children at home, Waiting for you with less than ten dollars a day. You know the path in which you walk. You plan your life in which to live. You know the value of your work 1s so much more than ten dollars a day. Betty Hango- Rummukainen Questions 1, List two chores that the woman does as stated in the poem. @ 2. Pick alliteration in stanza 1. a)y 3. Which word in the first stanza indicates that the woman's life was of a very low standard? ay 4. In stanza 4, what does the woman do to help herself make the work she does seem less? a) 5<-What is the theme of this poem? Discuss it with 2 relevant examples from the poem. G) 6. The phrase ‘for less than ten dollars a day” is repeated throughout the poem. What is the significance of this line in this poem? 2 7. Who is the persona? Give a reason. Q) 8. What is the actual job for the woman in the poem? a) 9. What are your feelings towards the woman? w 10. Suppose you were the woman's child, what would you do to help reduce your mother’s load of work? a)Read the poem below and answer questions 1 An abandoned bundle The morning mist and chimney smoke of White City Jabavu flowed thick yellow as pus oozing from a gigantic sore It smothered our little houses Like fish caught in a net Scavenging dogs Draped in red bandanas of blood Fought fiercely For a squirming bundle. I threw a brick; They bared fangs Flicked velvet toungues of scarlet And scurried away, Leaving a mutilated corpse- An infant dumped on a rubbish heap- “Oh Baby in the Manger Sleep well On human dung.”Its mother Had melted into the rays of the rising sun, Her face glittering with innocence Her heart as pure as untrampled dew. By Mbuyiseni Oswald Mishali Adapted from: World scrapes, Oxford University Press, 1@) What two images do the metaphoric expressions in stanza one potray? (2) (b).What is the mood of this poem? (a) (©) Identify a simile in stanza two and explain what it means, (2) (@) How can this poem be classified and why?” (2) (©) From the last stanza, quote expressions that show that the mother of the abandoned bundle had the following feelings:(i) pretence (ii) not caring (1) a a (iii) guilt ay (f) Briefly explain what is happening in stanza three. @B) (g) What are your feelings towards the baby. Explain your answer. @vr SECTION A POEM Read the poem below and use it to answer question 1 (a) to ( TWO SIDES OF LIFE Ona rainy night When Iwas utterly dismayed with life Walking through the dark and wet street, 'sawaninnocent child Selling mulberries sitting under a tree He was shivering in the cold breeze Yet offering his mulberries to all passers-by Yelling out loud with a sigh His eyes were wet in tears, ‘And face never shown cheers | stood there for a while, Drops of rain were still dripping incessantly lasked him gently, “How much will the mulberries cost me?" He said with an eager and trembling voice “Sir, just ten rupees, ‘And you can fetch the whole mulberries” ' bought them all, ‘And gave him a note of hundred rupees, He replied, “Sir, Idon't have the change with me, My house is near-by, Come along my way, I will get you the balance from where I stay” He took me to his house Through a dark narrow path Where street lights were feeble Yet no stopping of the waters pouring out of rain suddenly the child disappeared to somewhere ould see him nowhere ee ‘a while, in deep thoughts, Istood there ly he came out from a shack ae me the balance with his tiny hands fering 3 oe s ecstatic time he sold all his m med for him ulberriesIt was his ailing mother, bedridden She extended her arms for him He ran in and hugged her, Gave the earnings, with his eyes gleaming Then he turned to me and told his mother, Mal , he is the man who bought all our mulberries. Her eyes were wet and tears rolled over the cheek, with both her hands she bowed to me Yet her lips did not utter a single word to me, He said she is blind and dumb Adapted from Sreejith Kulaparambil’s Two sides of life a. Explain how appropriate is the title, TWO SIDES OF LIFE to the poem. (2marks) b. i) Which poetic device has been used in the lines, “His eyes were with tears”(1 mark) ii) What is the function of this poetic device? (1 mark) c. Pick a pair of rhyming words from stanza 2.(1mark) d. The boy “said with an eager and trembling voice. Sir, just ten rupees”. Why is the boy described as “eager” in this line? (2marks)State your feelings towards the child in the Poem. Support your answer with a relevant explanation. (2marks) Suggest a reason why the poet says, “For a while, deep in thoughts I stood there.” {1mark) State the mood of the poem? Support your answer with ré elevant examples from the poem. (2marks) | What is the significance of this expression “with both hands she bowed to me” in relation to the mother’s feelings towards the poet? (2marks)Section A-Poetry Th © Chimney Sweeper By William Blake When my mother dic died I was ve And my roi : father sold me while yet my tongue Ould scarcely ‘weep! Weep) Weep! Weep !* So your chimney 1 sweep and in Soot I sleep. There’s a little tom dacre, who cried when his head That curled like a Jamb’s back was shaved , so I said, Hush, Tom ! Never mind it, for when your head’s love ‘You know what the soot cannot spoil your white hair. And so he was quiet, and that very night A Tom was a-sleeping he had such a sight! ‘That thousands of sweepers , Dick,Joe,Ned and Jack, Were all of them locked up in coffins of black ‘And by came an Angel who had a bright key And he opened the coffins and set them all free; Then down a green plain, leaping , laughing they run, ‘And wash in a river and shine in the sun. ‘Then naked and white, all their bags left behind, They rise upon clouds ,and sport in the wind. ‘And the Angel told Tom ,if he'd be a good boy, He'd have God for his father and never want Joy. in the dark ‘And so Tom awoke in the dark, and rose in the to work, ‘And got with our bags and our brushes aa! ‘Though the moming was cold ,Tom was haPPY warm; harm. So if all do their duty, they need not fearQUESTION 1 8) Who is the persona? (ly b) Identify two pairs of thyming words. (2) ©) What is the comparison used in lines 5 and 6? What is it comparing? (2) 4) Weep in stanza one is an example of which poetic device? (1) What is the function of the poetic device above? (1) ©) What mood is depicted by the poem? Support your answer with an example from the poem. 2) ) What part of the day is the poem set up? () 8) Write two lists of words from the poem: Those associated with light and cleanliness (2) Those associated with darkness and dirt. Q) h) What is the theme of this poem? :SECTION A RECOLLECTION By Shimmer Chinodya POETRY Tremember this ‘wood onl too well. Tremember these crouchin i 7 And these sine hing fiers it seems they've hardly grown since I lat saw them +) Bordering crop of grass yellowed With the dust stirred up By the swishing feet of children And the wind, of course. T remember, too, the chirping of the timid little birds. T remember how we used to run barefoot Under these thorn trees, Three brothers with feet full of thoms — Bird shooting we were, with rough-made little catapults That exploded into our very own faces And pockets full of jingling stones picked up somewhere — Between us we shot down one bird in a year. I remember the big sign that said : Something about people not being allowed in — But we, heedless, half-ignorant prowlers Made the wood our hunting ground And birds and bitter little berries our prey. I remember it only too well. .. I remember even more now, how And how this scrub bush, oo Parched and un-green - & W 7 From the township's street of grim houses Satisfied our boyish dreams we were young then,Questions 1 is Who is the persona in the poem? 0) * Why was the grass yellow? Oo] 3. Pick one example for each of the following poetic devices from the poem; a. Alliteration uy b. Personification i} c. Onomatopoeia a fl] d. Repetition a 4, Is the title of the poem suitable? Give a reason for your answer. 2) 5. Where did the persona grow up? Justify your answer with an example from the poem. 2] What can you say about the socio-economic life the boys lived? Give a reason for your answer. 2) a. Quote a line from the poem to show how the boys felt about their life. 0) 7. What do you think was written on the big sign in line 16? How did the boys disobey the sign? 2]rudy the poem below then answer the questions that follow. Storm At Sea Crashing waves... ‘Smashing seas Bringing sailors to their knees As they struggle to save theit lives Hoping and praying, help arrives The storming seas as dark as coal Preventing sailors from reaching their goal Battered and bruised, but still they fight Staring ahead, into the dead of the night Rocking and rolling as they try to stand Hoping against hope, that they soon reach land, Bleary eyed from lack of sleep. Down in their cabins, huddled like sheep. As they're rocking and rolling down beneath Weary sailors above, resist with gritted teeth. ‘as the storm start to dissipate, It leaves a calm tranquil sea in it wake jlors know the battle is over and they have won... other storms yet t0 COME + QUESTIONS (ai. ‘What type of poem js this? a si, Give a reason for your answer in (a) i. above. @ (b) Give two examples of simile from the poem. @To (©) With the help of two relevant examples, comment on the difference in the atmosphere in stanzas one and two, a @ Which word would you use to describe the character of the sailors in the poem? Support your answer with evidence from the poem, 2) (©) Give two examples of rhyme from the poem. and and Q) (8) What life lesson do you lear from the poem? qa) eae —e (g) The storm was preventing the sailors from reaching their goal. What was their goa! () (Q) In your own words, explain the expression , ‘Hoping against hope...’ (asECTION A: POETRY (15 marks) Read the poem and answer the questions that follow Fear Khalil Gibran Itis said that before entering the sea ariver trembles with fear. She looks back at the path she has traveled, from the peaks of the mountains, the long winding road crossing forests and villages. And in front of her, she sees an ocean so vast, that to enter there seems nothing more than to disappear forever. But there is no other way. The river can not go back. Nobody can go back. To go back is impossible in existence The river needs to take the risk of entering the ocean because only then will fear disappear, because that’s where the river will know it's not about disappearing into the ocean, but of becoming the ocean.= ——————_ a is Who ig the author of the poem? Ng b. Describe the Structure of the poem & Identify the following poetic devices from the poem @ — Alliteration: (1) (ii) regal Oi aad ee "ersonification: es Sierra a (1) (iii) Repetition: (1) Se ae rear in ta irs d. What function does repetitions have in poems? (1) e. Identify contrast between stanza 3 and 6? (2) f. What is the mood of the Poem? Support your answer with an example from the poem (2)g. Explain the meaning of the following words/phrases as used in the poem @ “Trembles with fear” (i) “The river needs to take a risk” (1) h. Identify the theme of the poem. Support your answer (2)