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For the JUNE 2018 – JANUARY 2023 CSEC English B Examinations, the following poems are
prescribed from A World of Poetry for CXC (Hazel Simmons-McDonald and Mark McWatt
New Edition):
The Woman Speaks to the Man who has Employed Her Son Lorna Goodison
In this document, you will find each of these poems in the order given above.
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Table of Contents
An African Thunderstorm .................................................................................................................................................................. 4
Orchids ............................................................................................................................................................................................................ 12
The Woman Speaks to the Man who has Employed her Son ........................................................................... 13
A Stone’s Throw....................................................................................................................................................................................... 17
My Parents .................................................................................................................................................................................................. 24
Mirror ............................................................................................................................................................................................................... 30
South................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 31
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An African Thunderstorm
David Rubadiri
Turning sharply
Whirling,
Pregnant clouds
In the village
Women,
Dart about
In and out
Madly;
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The wind whistles by
Flying off
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Once Upon a Time
Gabriel Okara
my empty pockets.
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like a fixed portrait smile.
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Birdshooting Season
Olive Senior
chocolata, cerassie
In darkness shouldering
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West Indies, U.S.A.
Stewart Brown
some come up lucky, others not. Puerto Rico takes the pot,
back yard’ and claim that vaunted sanctuary... ‘Give me your poor...’
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containered baggage trucks unload with fierce efficiency.
It’s sharp and jagged and dangerous, and belonged to someone else.
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Sonnet Composed Upon Westminister Bridge
William Wordsworth
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Orchids
Hazel Simmons-McDonald
I starved them.
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The Woman Speaks to the Man who has Employed her Son
Lorna Goodison
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He says you are like a father to him
father.
Absalom.
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It is the Constant Image of Your Face
Dennis Brutus
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God’s Grandeur
Gerard Manley-Hopkins
And wears man's smudge and shares man's smell: the soil
And though the last lights off the black West went
World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.
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A Stone’s Throw
Elma Mitchell
We shouted out
We caught her.
By any means
Of course.
To come
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Of right.
Specially when
It tastes so good.
Speaking to her
At least until
We walked away
Another day
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Test Match Sabina Park
Stewart Brown
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Theme for English B
Langston Hughes
a page tonight.
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I like a pipe for a Christmas present,
the same things other folks like who are other races.
But it will be
That’s American.
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Dreaming Black Boy
James Berry
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for themselves. Wish people wouldn’t
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My Parents
Stephen Spender
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Dulce et Decorum Est
Wilfred Owen
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Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues—
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This is the Dark Time, My Love
Martin Carter
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Ol’ Higue
Mark McWatt
night,
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And who to blame
Believe me –
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Mirror
Sylvia Plath
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South
Kamau Brathwaite
and the only water is rain and the tepid taste of the river.
toiling, waiting and watching their cunning declension down to the sea.
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processioned in tumult, come to the sea.
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Little Boy Crying
Mervyn Morris
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