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WAEC - Literature In English (2024 - No. 31)

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

In the poem, cupid is 
an allusion
a metonymy
the persona's mistress
the persona's rival

Explanation

Cupid is an allusion because he is a reference to Roman mythology, where he is the god of love and desire. In the poem, Cupid is not a literal character but a symbolic figure representing love and attraction. The persona's heart is described as fleeing from Cupid's arrow, which suggests an unwillingness to surrender to love.

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