Form Two Lake Zone Pre-Necta Joint Exam 2025 Solved

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FORM TWO LAKE ZONE PRE-NECTA JOINT EXAMINATION 2025

POEM

9. Read the following poem carefully and then answer the questions that follow.

Handcuffs
Have steel fangs
Whose bite is more painful
Than a whole battalion
Of fleas

Though the itch in my heart
Grows deeper and deeper
I cannot scratch

How can I
My wrists
Are menaced
My mind is caged
My soul
Is shackled

I can only grimace at the ethereal cloud
A banner billowing in the sky, emblazoned
Have hope, brother
Despair is for the defeated

Questions

(i) Briefly comment on what the poem is about.

(ii) What is the attitude of the poet?

(iii) Briefly explain three themes found in the poem.