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WAEC - Literature In English (2024 - No. 29)

UNSEEN POETRY

Read the poem and answer the question

My heart was in fearful flight

Pursued by Cupid, arrow poised

Waiting for my flight's end

When I'd turn about

Or I'd fall supine

My fleeing heart to pierce

Enslave or enthrall and ravish hopeless

So, I'm pining and pining away

For you high up there have perched

Out of reach of my now yearning 

Which was why my heart'd been fleeing

From cupid's poised arrow

UNSEEN POETRY

Read the poem and answer the question

My heart was in fearful flight

Pursued by Cupid, arrow poised

Waiting for my flight's end

When I'd turn about

Or I'd fall supine

My fleeing heart to pierce

Enslave or enthrall and ravish hopeless

So, I'm pining and pining away

For you high up there have perched

Out of reach of my now yearning 

Which was why my heart'd been fleeing

From cupid's poised arrow

UNSEEN POETRY

Read the poem and answer the question

My heart was in fearful flight

Pursued by Cupid, arrow poised

Waiting for my flight's end

When I'd turn about

Or I'd fall supine

My fleeing heart to pierce

Enslave or enthrall and ravish hopeless

So, I'm pining and pining away

For you high up there have perched

Out of reach of my now yearning 

Which was why my heart'd been fleeing

From cupid's poised arrow

The poem is a 
haiku
kenning
limerick
lyric

Explanation

The poem expresses personal emotions, feelings and inner thoughts about love, longing, and heartache. This is characteristic of a lyric poem, which is typically emotional and musical in quality.

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