Question 4
Read the following poem and answer the question 2-5:
BEFORE YOU mother Idoto naked I stand
before your watery presence, a prodigal
Leaning on an oil bean
Lost in your legend
Under your power wait I
On barefoot,
Watchman for the watchwoman
At Heavens gate
Out of the depth my cry give ear and mark
From Christopher Okigbo’s Heavens gate
BEFORE YOU mother Idoto naked I stand
before your watery presence, a prodigal
Leaning on an oil bean
Lost in your legend
Under your power wait I
On barefoot,
Watchman for the watchwoman
At Heavens gate
Out of the depth my cry give ear and mark
From Christopher Okigbo’s Heavens gate
What figure of speech is contained in the phrase, ‘Watchman for watchwoman’
Objective