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Read the following poem and answer the questions that follow.

      

Mother ,give me peas,I am
Going to sow
I go,I go,I go I go to sow.
If it had not been for Ketiezo
The wild vegetable,hunger
would have killed us
When you have meat,you grind
With a smile on your face
I go, I go,I go,I go to sow.

a.Classify the poem.

b.What is the persona's altitude towards work?

c.Is there any rhythm? What is the effect?

d.What makes this an oral poem?

e.How would you enhance performance of this song?

f.Paraphrase the poem above.

  

Answers


Martin
a.It is a work poem/song.

b.The persona likes work because failure to work may lead one to die of hunger.

c.There is rhythm in the poem.The rhythm is regular and fast. This rhythm serves to create harmony with the digging activity.

d.The presence of short lines,uses of repetition.

e.The performance of this poem could be enhanced through- showing happiness,use of farming tools like jembes and slashers to enact digging activity or even using grinding stone,pestle and mortar to enact grinding of grain.

f.Paraphrasing the poem.
Mother give me peas so that i can go to plant. Kitiezo the wild vegetable saved us from hunger,but when we have meat we'll grind happily.So I am going to grind.
marto answered the question on October 11, 2018 at 06:34


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