POETRY - Jamb Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 121:

• JAMB 1981

'For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn or busy housewife ply her evening care: No children run to lisp sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share'.
In these lines from Gray's 'Elegy Written in a country churchyard' the poet is referred to

A. A ployman and the herd
B. The rich people of the village
C. The congregation of the church
D. The politicians
E. All those buried in the graveyard

Question 122:

• JAMB 1981

The main idea suggests in Kalu Uka's poem 'Earth To Earth

A. Death and burial
B. Man's mortality
C. The changes in seasons
D. The propitiation of ancestors
E. The falling od dew-drops.

Question 123:

• JAMB 1981

The word 'Fence' in peter's poem 'The Fence'symbolizes

A. Racial prejudice
B. Falsehood
C. Truth
D. Moral indecision
E. Social classes.

Question 124:

• JAMB 1981

In Lord Tennyson's 'Ulysses'the phrase 'happy lsles' refers to

A. The abode of the dead
B. The palace of Achilles
C. The abode of the Gods
D. The ringing plants of windy Troy
E. The land of the idle king.

Question 125:

• JAMB 1981

S.T. Colerige's 'Khan' is a poem about

A. A dream world
B. The world of demon lovers
C. The river Alph
D. A sunless sea
E. Sunny spots of greenery.