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This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black ...

This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed.) West African Verse.

'...these white lilies tossed their little heads then

In the moon-steeped ponds;

There was bouncing gaiety in the crisp chirping

Of the cricket in the undergrowth,...

These lines from Kwesi Brew's 'The Executioner's

Dream suggest that

even nature rejoices at human sacrifice

nature is indifferent to man's predicament

there is harmony in nature

there is a lot of activity in the undergrowth

The correct answer is B.

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