1993 - JAMB Literature Past Questions and Answers - page 2

This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.) Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.
'... And the laughter or cannon, of thunder arraigns the multitude of wills in savage tutelage...'
In the context of these lines from Odia Ofeimun's
For Christopher Okigbo', misfortune was

This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.) Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.
'...And your MP with a shining head and triple chin Will mourn your fate in a supplementary question at Question Time'.
These lines in the context of Richard Ntiru's 'The Pauper', portray the MP as being

This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.) Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.
'But even he who sharpened the edge of hearts
Conceived new truths.
Telling us that truth is not truth of swords
But the long buds growing from the ruins.'
These lines suggest to us that Langula in Mazisi
Kunene's To the Soldier Hero', was more interested in

This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.) Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.
In' Sunset Sonata', the description 'To stones that strangle the dawn,'is used

This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.) Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.
'The cell is a cruel place, sometimes a haven
Nowhere as absolute as the grave.
The poetic device used in these lines from J.P. Clark's 'The Casualties' is

This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.) Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.
The impression created of life in Kofi Awoonor's
'Songs of Sorrow' is that of

This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.) Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.
T.S. Eliot's 'Journey of the Magi' could be side to examine the issue of

This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.) Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.
'The voice of my education 'in D.H. Lawrence's
'Snake' refers to

This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.) Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.
In John Keats''Ode to a Nightingale, 'light-winged Dryad of the trees' refers to a

This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's 'The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born.'
The theme of the novel is