JAMB UTME - Literature In English - 1994

Question 1 Report

"The poet needs to be up at night,when the world

Sleeps...needs to exist in places where spiders

Forge their webs in silence;near the gutters where

The underside of our dreams fester."Based on Ben Okri's 'Of Poets and their Antagonists', the poet in the passage above is

suffering from insomnia

one of the numerous living in poverty

not an ordinary individual Correct answer

a difficult individual

Answer Details

In Ben Okri's 'Of Poets and their Antagonists', the poet described in the passage is not an ordinary individual. The poet is portrayed as someone who needs to exist in the margins of society, in the places where most people do not go or care to notice. The poet is described as someone who needs to be up at night, when the world sleeps, in order to tap into a different kind of creative energy. They need to exist in places where spiders forge their webs in silence, near the gutters where the underside of our dreams fester. This suggests that the poet is someone who is attuned to the world in a unique way and who seeks inspiration from unconventional sources. Therefore, the answer to the question is "not an ordinary individual."






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