WAEC Literature in English 2012 Objective — Question 21

PART II — UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY. Read the poem and answer questions 21-25. "I wonder how long, you awful parasite / Shall share with me this little bed / And make me, from sweet dreams be lost / By sucking blood from my poor head... I should but say man has much Blood, which you and your families do feed on; for supper, dinner and lunch, and besides, you do in my bed breed. Clever thou art, tiny creature, You attend me when I am deep asleep; When thou art sure, I can't you capture, just as the time I sleep deep. 'Tis so strange that before twilight, The bed clear of you would seem, For not one of you is in my sight, As if your presence was in a dream." The poem is about a

• A. nightmare
• B. dream
• C. raid of bugsCorrect
• D. mosquitoes