Read the poem and answer the questions which follow.

Read the poem and answer the questions which follow.

THE MARKET WOMAN
The market woman
Strong sun
and the market woman in the shade
of the mulemba
- Orange, my lady
a nice little orange!
Light plays in the town
its burning game
of brightness and shade
and life plays
in worried hearts
its game of blind-man’s buff.
The market woman
who sells fruit
sells herself.
- My Lady
orange, nice little orange!
Buy sweets oranges
buy from me too the bitterness
of this torture
of life without life
buy from me the childhood of the spirit
this rosebud
that did not open
start still impelled to a beginning.
Orange, my lady!
I exhausted the smiles
with which I cried
I no longer cry.
And there goes my hopes
as did the blood of my children
mingled with the dust of roads
buried on plantations
and my sweat
soaked in the cotton threads.
As effort was offered to
the security of machines
the beauty of tarmac roads
of tall buildings
comfort or ricy gentlemen
happiness dispersed in towns
and I
became a part
of the very problems of existence.
There go the oranges
as I offered myself to alcohol
to anaesthetize myself
and stupefied myself to live.
I gave all.
Even my pain
and the poetry of my naked breasts
I gave to the poets.
Now I myself am selling me
Buy oranges!
my lady!
Take me to the markets of life
My price is only one: - Blood.
Perhaps selling myself
I posses my self
- Buy oranges!

From Scared Hope by Agostino Neto,
Tanzania Publishing House, 1974, 12 - 14

QUESTIONS

(a)Identify the three voices in this poem. 3mks

(b) What is the Poet’s attitude to the market woman? 2mks

(c)What is the theme of the poem? 3mks

d) Describe the feeling of the market woman. 3mks

e) Identify the lines spoken by the persona in his role as an observer. 3mks

f) Explain the meaning of the following lines. 6mks

(i) I exhausted the similes
With which I cried
I no longer cry

(ii) Even my pain
and the poetry of my naked breasts
I gave to the poets
……………………………………………………………………………………………My price is only one: - Blood

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a)The three voices
- The person who introduces the market woman
- Market woman’s voice calling to buyers
- Market woman’s inner voice of reflection

b) Sympathetic / pities the market woman

c) Suffering / exploitation / destitution

d) Mood of anger, hurt feelings / defiant mood

e) 'The market woman/…….. Mulemba'

f) (i) The market woman has given up tactics of persuasion and self-pitying hope.
She is now hardened person

(ii) The market woman became the subject for poet’s verses

(iii) Her ventures are for survival

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marto answered the question on March 21, 2019 at 06:57

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