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TPP611S - THEORY AND PRACTICE OF WORLD POETRY 2A - 2ND OPP - JULY 2025 |
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nAmI BI A unIVE RSITY
OF SCIEnCE Ano TECHnDLOGY
FACULTY OF COMMERCE, HUMAN SCIENCESAND EDUCATION
DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATION AND LANGUAGES
QUALIFICATION: BACHELOR OF ENGLISH AND LINGUISTICS
QUALIFICATION CODE: 07 BAENL
LEVEL: 6
COURSE CODE: TPP 6115
COURSE NAME: THEORYAND PRACTICEOF
WORLD POETRY2A
SESSION: JULY 2025
DURATION: 3 HOURS
PAPER: THEORY
MARKS: 100
EXAMINER{S)
SECOND OPPORTUNITY EXAMINATION
Mr. A.BREWIS
MS. E. KAM SWALE
MODERATOR: DR.E.GAWAS
INSTRUCTIONS
1. Answer ALL the questions.
2. Read all the questions carefully before answering.
3. Number the answers clearly
4. Indicate whether you are a FM,PM or a DI student on the cover
of your answer booklet.
5. Up to 10% will be deducted from your final mark for language
errors.
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QUESTION 1
a) Identify the rhyme scheme in the following poem. What is its effect in this poem? (10
marks)
b) Identify two metaphors in the poem below and explain how they help to express its
message. (20 marks)
Langston Hughes: Dreams
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.
QUESTION 2
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Analyse the poem "Love is not All" by Edna St. Vincent Millay according to its use of imagery
and the idea of love it represents.
Love Is Not All
(by Edna St. Vincent Millay)
Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink
Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain;
Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink
And rise and sink and rise and sink again;
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Love can not fill the thickened lung with breath,
Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone;
Yet many a man is making friends with death
Even as I speak, for lack of love alone.
It well may be that in a difficult hour,
Pinned down by pain and moaning for release,
Or nagged by want past resolution's power,
I might be driven to sell your love for peace,
Or trade the memory of this night for food.
It well may be. I do not think I would.
QUESTION3
[35]
In a well considered essay of 450-500 words analyse Shelley's poem Ozymandias.
Pay attention to the poet's use of style and the themes the poem comments on.
Quote from the poem to support your argument.
Ozymandias
BY PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said-"Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert .... Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
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The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away."
END OF QUESTION PAPER