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WAEC - Literature In English (2024 - No. 30)

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 dominant image is one of 
beginning
flying
running
waiting

Explanation

The dominant image in the poem is flying or fleeing, as the speaker describes their heart in fearful flight from Cupid's poised arrow. The use of words like "fearful flight", "pursued", and "fleeing" all portray the image of flying and fleeing from love or emotional vulnerability.

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