JAMB - Literature In English (2000 - No. 29)
This question is based on selected poems from: R. Johnson and D. Ker er al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry; M. Umukoro and A. Sani et al (eds.) Exam Focus: Literature in English; A.E. Eruvbetine and M. Jibril et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.
'... It is not yet dawn
And we wake from one nightmare
To another.'
In these lines from Ojaide's "The Owl Wake Us", the mood is that of a
terrifying dream
seemingly endless night
vicious cycle of oppression
persona's experience
Explanation
In the lines "It is not yet dawn / And we wake from one nightmare / To another," the mood conveyed is one of ongoing hardship and suffering. The speaker reflects a sense of unrelenting distress, where one troubling situation gives way to another, without any respite. This portrays a vicious cycle of oppression, where they cannot escape from their struggles.
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