WAEC SSCE - Literature In English - 2011 (Objective)

Question 1 Report

Read the poem and answer the question

Here stood our ancestral home
The crumbling wall marks the spot
Here a sheep was led to the slaughter
To appease the goods and atone
For fauilts which our destiny
Has blossomed into crimes
There my cursed father once stood
And shouted to us, his children
To come back from our play
To our evening meal and sleep.

The sheep was led to the slaughter

to prepare their evening meal

because it was a troublesome sheep

because their father was a butcher

as a sacrifice to their gods

Answer Details

The sheep was led to the slaughter as a sacrifice to their gods. This was done in order to appease the gods and atone for faults which their destiny had turned into crimes. The act of sacrifice was a common religious practice in many ancient cultures, where an animal was offered to the gods in order to seek their favor or forgiveness.






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