This question i based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (ed.)Selection of African Poetry and E.W. ...

Assessment: JAMB UTME - Literature In English - 1992 Subject: Literature In English

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This question i based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (ed.)Selection of African Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.

The dominant mood in 'Ode to a Nightingale' is that of

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The dominant mood in 'Ode to a Nightingale' is melancholy. In the poem, the speaker is listening to a nightingale's song and is struck by how beautiful it is. However, the speaker is also aware that the nightingale's song is temporary and will eventually come to an end. This awareness of the transience of beauty and the inevitability of death creates a sense of melancholy throughout the poem. The speaker longs to escape from the world of mortality and enter into the timeless world of the nightingale's song.

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