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JAMB UTME - Literature In English - 2010

Question 1 Report

Read the poem and answer the questionMove him into the sun

Gently its touch awoke him once,

At home, whispering of fields unsown

Always it woke him even in France

Until this morning and this snow

If anything might rouse him now

This kind old sun will know

Think how it wakes the seeds

Woke,once, the clays of a cold star

Are limbs, so dear achieved, are sides,

Full-nerved still warm too hard to stir?

Was it for this the clay grew tall?

O what made fatuous sunbeams toil

To break earth's sleep at all?The mood in the last two lines is one of

Answer Details
The mood in the last two lines of the poem is lament. The speaker is questioning the purpose of the sun and its rays that have awakened the soldier from his eternal sleep. The use of the word "fatuous" implies that the speaker considers the sun's efforts to be foolish or pointless. The tone is one of sadness and regret, as the speaker mourns the loss of the soldier and wonders whether his sacrifice was worth it. Therefore, the overall mood of the last two lines is one of lament, expressing the poet's sorrow and questioning the futility of war.