JAMB - Literature In English (1990 - No. 5)
This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel.
'...He risked his life that you may boast
A warrior-hunter for your lord...But you-
You sell him to the rhyming rabble
Gloating in your disloyalty...
In these lines the 'rhyming rabble' refers to
'...He risked his life that you may boast
A warrior-hunter for your lord...But you-
You sell him to the rhyming rabble
Gloating in your disloyalty...
In these lines the 'rhyming rabble' refers to
clowns who wait on the Bale
children in Lakunle's school
professional singers
the mummers who dance in mockery of the Bale's rumoured impotence
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