Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.<br/>'Returning is not possible<br/>And going forward is a great difficulty'<br/>Sorrow' depict

This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.<br/>'The is my son, mine own Telemachus To whom I leave the scepter and the isle.'<br/>In the lines above from Tennyson's Ulysses', scepter' and 'isle' are a poetic device called

This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.<br/>The persona in 'My Last Duchess' regards the painting as

This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.<br/>Wordsworth's 'The Solitary Reaper' is preoccupied with the

This question is based on zaynab Alkali's The Stillborn.<br/>'And in spite of everything, in the soft cradle of her heart, there was another baby forming'. <br/>What baby is being referred to in the above statement?