Neco Gce 2016 LITERATURE IN ENGLISH (drama and poetry) Answers – Nov/Dec Expo
Neco Gce 2016 LITERATURE IN ENGLISH (drama and poetry) Answers – Nov/Dec Expo
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THEMES OF BIRCHES
i]The theme of Imagination vs. the Real World –
One important theme of “Birches” is how Frost uses his poetic imagination to transcend the limits of the real world. He rejects the true reason the birches have been bent over in favor of his own fanciful explanation. On some level, he is claiming that this act of the imagination embodies a larger “truth” and is a worthy task, one that must be made with great care and diligence.
THEMES OF BIRCHES
i]The theme of Imagination vs. the Real World –
One important theme of “Birches” is how Frost uses his poetic imagination to transcend the limits of the real world. He rejects the true reason the birches have been bent over in favor of his own fanciful explanation. On some level, he is claiming that this act of the imagination embodies a larger “truth” and is a worthy task, one that must be made with great care and diligence.
ii]The theme of Youth
Youth, like death, is a constant backdrop for many of Frost’s poems. The speaker of “Birches” never sees a boy or comes across one. He only imagines one, and the boy that he does imagine is himself at a younger age. The boy seems to be similar to William Wordsworth and Walt Whitman’s portrayals of boys. These boys have their own rules and wisdom that they can pass on to the older men and women around them. They are ready for adventures in nature and represent the wild, untamed state of “man” that remains good and moral even though no one is there to govern him.
Youth, like death, is a constant backdrop for many of Frost’s poems. The speaker of “Birches” never sees a boy or comes across one. He only imagines one, and the boy that he does imagine is himself at a younger age. The boy seems to be similar to William Wordsworth and Walt Whitman’s portrayals of boys. These boys have their own rules and wisdom that they can pass on to the older men and women around them. They are ready for adventures in nature and represent the wild, untamed state of “man” that remains good and moral even though no one is there to govern him.
iii] The theme of Spirituality
Robert Frost is not the kind of poet to insert religious imagery into his poems. A subtle Christian allusion is rare. However, the poet writes a lot of meditations on life and death, so that always brings in spiritual questions. In “Birches,” Frost mentions “heaven” twice. Notice how it is always with a lower-case h and is more suggestive of the sky than paradise. The poem could be read as an allegory, but it’s a little too skeptical for that.
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Robert Frost is not the kind of poet to insert religious imagery into his poems. A subtle Christian allusion is rare. However, the poet writes a lot of meditations on life and death, so that always brings in spiritual questions. In “Birches,” Frost mentions “heaven” twice. Notice how it is always with a lower-case h and is more suggestive of the sky than paradise. The poem could be read as an allegory, but it’s a little too skeptical for that.
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10)
i) Alliteration: The repetition of consonants at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding, or at a short interval. In line 1 “gently gently”in line 8 “what eyes will watch” in line 15 “Dead came with their Dead” in line 25 “Did not understand our dead”.
i) Alliteration: The repetition of consonants at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding, or at a short interval. In line 1 “gently gently”in line 8 “what eyes will watch” in line 15 “Dead came with their Dead” in line 25 “Did not understand our dead”.
ii) Imagery: This is the use of word in giving vivid picture of an occasion or object or person. In line four “sad complaining voices of beggars” it describes how the voices of the people in the poem look like. “Just as our fears were deaf” is a simile and imagery telling the readers how oblivion the people in the poem were. In line 14 “the black depths of our plaintive throats?” is also an imagery among many that exist in the poem.
iii) Metaphor: This’ an indirect comparison which opposes simile that uses “like” and “as” to create its own comparison. In line 4 of the poem “voices of beggars” in line 14 “plaintive throats” in line 9 “the laughter of big children”.
iv) Repetition: In the poem, there are repetin tioof words, phrases and lines. “Gengly” “what” “our” “laughter” “mouth” are few words repeated in the poem. There are partial repetition of lines, for instance: line 3 and 5 repeat “who… will hear… without laughter” in line 8 and 10 “what eyes will watch our … mouths” in line 17 and 19 “just as our ears were deaf” in line 21 and 24 “in the air, in the water, where they have traced their signs”.
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Ochuole is Aloho’s classmate in the University. She is portrayed as notorious and wayward. Ochuole works as Chief Administrative Officer at the Ministry of External Relations. She aids Chief’s sexually immoral lifestyle by providing him with ladies. She lures Aloho into drug trafficking in the guise of helping her to secure a job with the Ministry of External Relations.
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Ochuole is Aloho’s classmate in the University. She is portrayed as notorious and wayward. Ochuole works as Chief Administrative Officer at the Ministry of External Relations. She aids Chief’s sexually immoral lifestyle by providing him with ladies. She lures Aloho into drug trafficking in the guise of helping her to secure a job with the Ministry of External Relations.
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8i)
A RAISIN IN THE SUN
THEME OF SUFFERING
The Younger family is cooped up inside a small apartment in the slums, barely making ends meet with Walter, Ruth, and Lena all working menial jobs. Throughout their sufferings, they keep dreams and pride alive. Their suffering makes it much harder to turn down Karl Lindner’s offer to buy out their home. Suffering imbues the play via the set design and the actors’ portrayals of their characters – rather than being a blatant statement, suffering is treated as a fact of the Younger family’s life.
A RAISIN IN THE SUN
THEME OF SUFFERING
The Younger family is cooped up inside a small apartment in the slums, barely making ends meet with Walter, Ruth, and Lena all working menial jobs. Throughout their sufferings, they keep dreams and pride alive. Their suffering makes it much harder to turn down Karl Lindner’s offer to buy out their home. Suffering imbues the play via the set design and the actors’ portrayals of their characters – rather than being a blatant statement, suffering is treated as a fact of the Younger family’s life.
ii) A RAISIN IN THE SUN
THEME OF PRIDE
Pride is portrayed in an extremely positive light in A Raisin in the Sun . Since the play is depicting people who have little else to their
name, pride is a means for them to hold on to their dignity and affirm their worth as human beings. When a neighborhood representative shows up and offers to buy out their house, the family doesn’t hesitate to kick him out. The novel frames this decision as pride versus money, and although money does win out for a little bit, the Younger family maintains its pride in the end.
THEME OF PRIDE
Pride is portrayed in an extremely positive light in A Raisin in the Sun . Since the play is depicting people who have little else to their
name, pride is a means for them to hold on to their dignity and affirm their worth as human beings. When a neighborhood representative shows up and offers to buy out their house, the family doesn’t hesitate to kick him out. The novel frames this decision as pride versus money, and although money does win out for a little bit, the Younger family maintains its pride in the end.
iii) A RAISIN IN THE SUN
THEME OF DISSATISFACTION
What will all the suffering and sacrifice going on, it’s not difficult to predict that the characters in A Raisin the Sun are, for the most
part, dissatisfied. This dissatisfaction affects Walter Younger the most, however, because it prompts him to undertake foolhardy actions.
The rest of his family, in contrast, has learned to deal with their dissatisfactions in a more controlled manner.
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THEME OF DISSATISFACTION
What will all the suffering and sacrifice going on, it’s not difficult to predict that the characters in A Raisin the Sun are, for the most
part, dissatisfied. This dissatisfaction affects Walter Younger the most, however, because it prompts him to undertake foolhardy actions.
The rest of his family, in contrast, has learned to deal with their dissatisfactions in a more controlled manner.
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