This year JAMB surprised many by using some books from the WAEC Lit-in-Eng syllabus. This is the syllabus for this year's utme .
Drama: African:
1. Femi Osofisan: Women of Owu
Non African:
1. William Shakespeare: The Tempest
Prose: African:
i. Asare Konadu: A woman in Her Prime
ii. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Purple Hibiscus
Non African:
i. Ernest Hemingway: The Old Man and The Sea
Poetry: African:
i. Gbemisola Adeoti; Hard lines
ii. P.O.C. Umeh: Ambassadors of Poverty
iii. Shola Owonibi: Homeless not Hopeless
iv. Syl Cheney-Coker: Myopia
v. Jared Angira: Expelled
vi. Traditional: Serenade.
Non African:
i. John Donne: The Sun Rising
ii. Sir Walter Raleigh: The Soul’s Errand
iii. Langston Hughes: Negro Speaks of Rivers
iv. John Fletcher: Upon an Honest Man’s Fortune

John Donne
 Sun Rising
Busy old fool, unruly Sun,
Why dost thou thus,
Through windows, and through curtains, call on us ?
Must to thy motions lovers' seasons run ?
Saucy pedantic wretch, go chide
Late school-boys and sour prentices,
Go tell court-huntsmen that the king will ride,
Call country ants to harvest offices ;
Love, all alike, no season knows nor clime,
Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Thy beams so reverend, and strong
Why shouldst thou think ?
I could eclipse and cloud them with a wink,
But that I would not lose her sight so long.
If her eyes have not blinded thine,
Look, and to-morrow late tell me,
Whether both th' Indias of spice and mine
Be where thou left'st them, or lie here with me.
Ask for those kings whom thou saw'st yesterday,
And thou shalt hear, "All here in one bed lay."

She's all states, and all princes I ;
Nothing else is ;
Princes do but play us ; compared to this,
All honour's mimic, all wealth alchemy.
Thou, Sun, art half as happy as we,
In that the world's contracted thus ;
Thine age asks ease, and since thy duties be
To warm the world, that's done in warming us.
Shine here to us, and thou art everywhere ;
This bed thy center is, these walls thy sphere.

“The Sun Rising”
Summary
Lying in bed with his lover, the speaker chides the rising sun, calling it a “busy old fool,” and asking why it must bother them through windows and curtains. Love is not subject to season or to time, he says, and he admonishes the sun—the “Saucy pedantic wretch”—to go and bother late schoolboys and sour apprentices, to tell the court-huntsmen that the King will ride, and to call the country ants to their harvesting.
Why should the sun think that his beams are strong? The speaker says that he could eclipse them simply by closing his eyes, except that he does not want to lose sight of his beloved for even an instant. He asks the sun—if the sun’s eyes have not been blinded by his lover’s eyes—to tell him by late tomorrow whether the treasures of India are in the same place they occupied yesterday or if they are now in bed with the speaker. He says that if the sun asks about the kings he shined on yesterday, he will learn that they all lie in bed with the speaker.
The speaker explains this claim by saying that his beloved is like every country in the world, and he is like every king; nothing else is real. Princes simply play at having countries; compared to what he has, all honor is mimicry and all wealth is alchemy. The sun, the speaker says, is half as happy as he and his lover are, for the fact that the world is contracted into their bed makes the sun’s job much easier—in its old age, it desires ease, and now all it has to do is shine on their bed and it shines on the whole world. “This bed thy centre is,” the speaker tells the sun, “these walls, thy sphere.”
Form
The three regular stanzas of “The Sun Rising” are each ten lines long and follow a line-stress pattern of 4255445555—lines one, five, and six are metered in iambic tetrameter, line two is in dimeter, and lines three, four, and seven through ten are in pentameter. The rhyme scheme in each stanza is ABBACDCDEE.

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[quote author=Thorerah post=20749861] This year JAMB surprised many by using some books from the WAEC Lit-in-Eng syllabus. This is the syllabus for this year's utme .
Drama: African:
1. Femi Osofisan: Women of Owu
Non African:
1. William Shakespeare: The Tempest
Prose: African:
i. Asare Konadu: A woman in Her Prime
ii. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Purple Hibiscus
Non African:
i. Ernest Hemingway: The Old Man and The Sea
Poetry: African:
i. Gbemisola Adeoti; Hard lines
Pls teachers help me appreciate serenade and hard lines. The text book i'm reading did not have them. Tanks ma/sirs.

Let's not get confused here... This is the Lit. in English syllabus for 2014 UTME. Please check for the updated syllabus for JAMB 2015 Lit. in English at http://myschool.com.ng/school/classroom/jamb-syllabus/literature-in-english/

cmon:
Let's not get confused here... This is the Lit. in English syllabus for 2014 UTME. Please check for the updated syllabus for JAMB 2015 Lit. in English at http://myschool.com.ng/school/classroom/jamb-syllabus/literature-in-english/

Thanks bro,the thread for this year is https://www.nairaland.com/2079956/online-tutorial-utme-2015-2016
Click on the link to join us there

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Join us on the New thread,this thread is for last year syllabus,click on this link https://www.nairaland.com/2079956/online-tutorial-utme-2015-2016 to join us as we start

Guyz,join us on the 2015/2016 thread through this link https://www.nairaland.com/2079956/online-tutorial-utme-2015-2016

Hi Literatus, should I say?.






Well, if you've read the syllabus of Romeo and Juliet, Old man and the Medal, Sons and Daughters, etc. I advise that you get Mastery of Literature 2014 in 'Bestir' so you can read the books posted above I.e The Tempest, Purple Hibiscus, The Old man and the Sea, A woman in her Prime, etc cause many of those Literature student that have shared their experience have confirmed same text, novels and poems were set as with last year.







Success to you all.

Click on this link to confirm for yourself experience of those that wrote today




http://myschool.com.ng/school/news/34930/utme-of-10th-march-ndash-share-your-experience-here.html#pgTp