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Poetry Question Paper
Poetry
Course:Bachelor Of Arts In Literature
Institution: Kenyatta University question papers
Exam Year:2009
KENYATTA UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS 2009/2010
FIRST SEMESTER EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF
ARTS
ALT 302:
POETRY
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DATE: WEDNESDAY 30TH DECEMBER 2009
TIME: 11.00 A.M. ? 1.00 P.M.
INSTRUCTIONS
a)
Answer Question 1 and any other TWO Questions.
b)
You are strongly advised to be CLEAR, PRECISE, and ILLUSTRATIVE.
1. Compulsory
Elizabeth Penfield avers that ?Poets use economy, imagery, and sound to convey their ideas and feelings to the reader. Those three qualities distinguish poetry from other forms of literature and also give it its power. (Italics mine). Write about two pages carefully expounding on Penfield?s claim with specific illustrations from poems that you have studied. Pay special attention to the italicized words. (26 marks)
2.
Discuss Brownings use of imagery in the following poem:
Meeting at Night. Robert Browning
The gray sea and the long black land;
And the yellow half-moon large and low;
And the startled little waves that leap
In fiery ringlets from their sleep,
As I gain the cove with pushing prow,
And quench its speed in the slushy sand.
Then a mile of warm sea-scented beach;
Three fields to cross till a farm appears;
A tap at the pane, the quick sharp scratch
And blue spurt of a lighted match,
And a voice less loud, through its joys and fears,
Than two hearts beating each to each!
(22 marks)
3.
Explain what eh word setting may refer to in literary studies. With close reference to EITHER Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold or ?Abiku? by J.P. Clark, show how the setting affects the theme of the poem. (22 marks)
4.
Write an explication of the following poem:
Grass Carl Sandburg
Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo1.
Shove them under and let me work___
I am the grass; I cover all.
And pile them high at Gettysburg2
And pile them high at Ypres and Verdun3.
Shovel them under and let me work.
Two years, ten years, and passengers ask the conductor:
What place is this?
Where are we now?
I am the grass.
Let me work.
1.
Sites of Napoleonic wars. Napoleon was defeated at Waterloo.
2.
Confiderate aymy defeated here in 1863 during American civil war.
3.
Sites of fierce fighting during the First World War. (22 marks)
5.
Write a talk that you may give to a freshman class about how to read aloud a poem effectively. Then, explain to them how you would read the poem ?Ibadan? by J.P. Clark (You will need to write out this poem). (22 marks)
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