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English Open Day Oral Poetry: Questions

This oral poem is about consoling a beautiful bride who is crying on her wedding day. The singers, who seem to be the bride's family members, reassure her that marriage will not be difficult and that she will have children. They tell her that household tasks like cooking, cleaning, and gathering firewood are normal duties that women perform and will not harm her. The society portrayed in the poem expects wives to resign themselves to their roles and to work without complaining. It views marriage and motherhood as the natural roles for women.

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English Open Day Oral Poetry: Questions

This oral poem is about consoling a beautiful bride who is crying on her wedding day. The singers, who seem to be the bride's family members, reassure her that marriage will not be difficult and that she will have children. They tell her that household tasks like cooking, cleaning, and gathering firewood are normal duties that women perform and will not harm her. The society portrayed in the poem expects wives to resign themselves to their roles and to work without complaining. It views marriage and motherhood as the natural roles for women.

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ENGLISH OPEN DAY

ORAL POETRY

1. Read the following oral poem and answer the questions that follow.
Oh beautiful bride, don’t cry,
Your marriage will be happy,
Console yourself, your husband will be good.

And like your mother and your aunt,


You will have many children in your life,
Two children, three children, four……………..

Resign yourself do like all other,


A man is not a leopard,

A husband is not a thunderstruck,


Your mother was your father’s wife,
It will not kill you to work.

It will not kill you to grind the grain


Nor will it kill you to wash the pots
Nobody dies from gathering firewood
Nor from washing clothes.

We did not do it for you,


We did not want to see you go,
We love you too much for that

Its your beauty that did it


Because you are so gorgeous
Ah, we see you laugh beneath your tears!

Goodbye, your husband is here


And already you don’t seem
To need our consolations.

Questions
a) With evidence, classify the oral poem. (2mks)
b) Who do you think are the singers of the song? Illustrate. (2mks)
c) How do the singers make the situation bearable for the lady? (2mks)
d) What is the attitude of the society from which the song is derived towards women? (2mks
e) Illustrate and explain the use of the following stylistic devices in this oral poem. (4mks)
i) Repetition –
ii) Ellipses –
f) State in note form the duties of a wife according to the song. (2mks)
g) Explain any social aspect and one economic activity carried out in the commodity from
which the oral poem is taken (4mks)
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h) Explain the irony in the 7 stanza. (2mks)

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