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“The poet needs to be up at night,when the world sleeps…needs to exist in places…

“The poet needs to be up at night,when the world
sleeps…needs to exist in places where spiders
forge their webs in silence;near the gutters where
the underside of our dreams fester.”
Based on Ben Okri’s ‘Of Poets and their Antagonists’, the poet in the passage above is
  • A.
    suffering from insomnia
  • B.
    one of the numerous living in poverty
  • C.
    not an ordinary individual
  • D.
    a difficult individual
Correct Answer: Option C
Explanation