These questions are based on selected poems from Ker,D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka,(ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Selection of African Poe...

These questions are based on selected poems from Ker,D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka,(ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A,E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (eds.): West Africa Verse.'Woman cannot exist except by man

What is there in that to vex some of them so?

The statement above from the poem Give Me The Minstrel's Seat.exemplifies

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The statement "What is there in that to vex some of them so?" from the poem "Give Me The Minstrel's Seat" exemplifies a rhetorical question. This is a type of question that is not meant to be answered, but to emphasize a point or to provoke thought. In this case, the rhetorical question is used to emphasize the absurdity of the idea that women cannot exist without men, and to question why anyone would be vexed by this statement.