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 ...

Assessment: JAMB UTME - Literature In English - 2015 Subject: Literature In English

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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 is one of lament. The speaker is questioning the purpose of the sun's efforts to awaken the earth, asking "Was it for this the clay grew tall?" and expressing disappointment that the sun's efforts have not been successful in rousing the person lying in the snow. The speaker seems sad and disappointed in the situation.

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