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JAMB Literature in English 2015 Question 34

Question 34

Non-African Poetry

This question is based on A Pageant of longer Poems by E.W. Parker Longman group, English Romantic Verse; ed by Wright, Penguin books, The Golden Treasury of Longer Poem. Alfred Tennyson's Crossing the Bar The Poem is a Meditation on

  1. A.life
  2. B.death
  3. C.happiness
  4. D.destruction.
Show the answer and explanation

Answer: B (death)

Explanation

Tennyson uses the image of a ship putting out to sea across the sandbar as a calm meditation on his own death.