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TPP621S - THEORY AND PRACTICE OF WORLD POETRY 2B - 2ND OPP - DECEMBER 2025 |
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nAmlBIA unlVERSITY
OF SCI En CE Ano TECH n OLOGY
FACULTY OF COMMERCE, HUMAN SCIENCE AND EDUCATION
DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATION
QUALIFICATION: BACHELOR OF ENGLISH AND LINGUISTICS
QUALIFICATION CODE: 07 BENL
LEVEL: 6
COURSE CODE: TPP 621 S
COURSE NAME: THEORY AND PRACTICE OF
WORLD POETRY 2B
SESSION: DECEMBER 2025
DURATION: 3 HOURS
PAPER: THEORY
MARKS: 100
SECOND OPPORTUNITY EXAMINATION QUESTION PAPER
EXAMINER(S) Mr. A.Brewis
MODERATOR: Dr.E.Gawas
INSTRUCTIONS
1) Answer all the questions.
2) Read all the questions carefully before answering.
3) Number the answers clearly
4) Marks will be deducted for spelling and language errors.
THIS MEMORANDUM CONSISTS OF _5_ PAGES (Including this front page)
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QUESTION 1
Discuss how the poem "I used to want" by Hugh Ellis delves into the concept of identity
and self discovery. Use references from the poem to support your argument in a well
substantiated essay of 450-500 words.
[50)
HUGH ELLIS:I USED TO WANT
I used to want to be black
But now it's okay to be red
You see, my great grandfathers were workers
They struggled as much as anyone else
I used to want to be black
And who can blame me?
My great grandfathers became colonialists
In order to fill their rotten stomachs
I used to want to be black
And you must hear my voice
'cause my grandfathers kept their mouths shut
Even though they disapproved
Now it's okay to be red
That's how independence came
My father wrote books about repression and liberation
But that's all his story, not mine
Now it's okay to be red
Namibian sunburn on my skin
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I tried to learn all the languages and cultures
But I almost forgot my own
I used to want to be black
But now it's okay to be red
I hope my children, if and when they come
Won't have to fight these demons
QUESTION 2
Compare and contrast the following poems, paying particular attention to the similarities
and differences between the style and attitudes of the poets.
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The dream of Africa
I lay the other night and dreamt
That we were all being glazed
With a white clay of foreign education
And it was stifling, stifling like the sleeping black man
Inside there.
Making him fester.
Liberating worms of thought; books,books.
0,o, what's gnawing me there?
Pinching me at the seat of the brain?
We were given books, and they
Pinched what they touched.
Wrought us to great perplexity
Of selves we did not understand,
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Did not want to understand.
"we must educate you, you see".
Doctor, what ails me, what ails-
{the bottled ale I took the other night to forget)
The ready-made pill prescription
For a slight mental maladjustment
Due to ... due to ...that's not for us to know:
It is the knowing doctor's secret.
"Business, you see."
So we glibly take it, the pill,
Which smooth es the pain and smoothes the nerves,
And sends the disease to sleep.
And to rot . This white precipitate
Of an age-old decay of a foreign culture
Africa gaped for, glazed her sons with,
To prepare them for an international role in the future .
Will it be the pearl in the oyster's shell,
Or mere rottenness?
Johnathan Karira
Young Africa's resolve
I'll talk no more
I'll listen to nobody's talk,
I'll wait no more.
I'll lead myself towards the goal,
Though countless hurdles cross my path
And danger lurks on every side,
I'll go forward and do and dare.
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On library doors
I'll knock aloud and gain entrance;
Of the strength
Of nations past and present I will read,
I'll brush the dust from ancient scrolls
And drinking deep of the Pyrrhean stream,
Will go forward and do and dare.
I'll sail the seas
And learn the might of God and man.
Behind my name
To tie a string of alphabets.
Melting bubbles will not end all.
I'll come back home with strong arms bared,
I'll go forward and do and dare.
Dennis C. Osadebay
TOTAL:100
END OF QUESTION PAPER