Question on: JAMB Literature - 2019
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Line 1: My heart leaps up when I behold
Line 2: A rainbow in the sky
Line 3: so was it when my life began
Line 4: so is it now
Line 5: so is it when I have grown
Line 6: the child is the father of the man.
The object of the extract is____?
A
childishness
B
the unchanging cycle of nature
C
the adverse effect of old age
D
human being
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Correct Option: C
The subject matter in Lenrie Peter's " panic of growing older" may likened to the extract ; especially with the paradox in the line 6 , pointing to the substitution and / or reversal of strength and responsibility from a child of his father thereafter when the father becomes of age.
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