OCR Oxford Cambridge and RSA Wednesday 8 June 2022 GCSE English Literature J352/21 Poetry across time Time allowed: 1 hour 15 minutes — Morning

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Poetry across time Question Page Love and Relationships 1 4 Conflict 2 6 Youth and Age 3 8 4 © OCR 2022 J352/21 Jun22 Poetry across Time Answer both parts of the question on the poetry cluster... you have studied. 1 Love and Relationships Read the two poems below and then answer both part a) and part b). You are advised to spend about 45 minutes on part a) and 30 minutes on part b). a) Compare how these poems present the loss of a loved one. You should consider: • ideas and attitudes in each poem • tone and atmosphere in each poem • the effects of the language and structure used. [20] AND b) Explore in detail one other poem from your anthology which presents a memorable relationship. [20] Long Distance II by Tony Harrison 1 Though my mother was already two years dead Dad kept her slippers warming by the gas, put hot water bottles her side of the bed and still went to renew her transport pass. 5 You couldn’t just drop in. You had to phone. He’d put you off for an hour to give him time to clear away her things and look alone as though his still raw love were such a crime. He couldn’t risk my blight of disbelief 10 though sure that very soon he’d hear her key scrape in the rusted lock and end his grief. He knew she’s just popped out to get the tea. I believe life ends with death, and that is all. You haven’t both gone shopping; just the same, 15 in my black leather phone book there’s your name and the disconnected number I still call. 5 © OCR 2022 J352/21 Jun22 Turn over Silence by Anthony Thwaite 1 This silence, with you away – These silences, day after day – Silence itself, pure and cold and grey – Once I welcomed it, heard 5 Nothing but peace, even a bird Disturbing it. Without a word Silence welcomed me, took Me in friendliness, shook Melancholy out, thrust a book 10 Into my hands, so that I read Hungrily of what lay ahead, Not thinking of the dead. Alone, Silence lies along the bone, 15 Grey, cold as a stone. 6 © OCR 2022 J352/21 Jun22 2 Conflict Read the two poems below and then answer both part a) and part b). You are advised to spend about 45 minutes on part a) and 30 minutes on part b). a) Compare how these poems present emotions leading to conflict. You should consider: • ideas and attitudes in each poem • tone and atmosphere in each poem • the effects of the language and structure used. [20] AND b) Explore in detail one other poem from your anthology which presents strong feelings about the causes of conflict. [20] A Poison Tree by William Blake 1 I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow. 5 And I watered it in fears, Night and morning with my tears; And I sunned it with smiles, And with soft deceitful wiles. And it grew both day and night, 10 Till it bore an apple bright. And my foe beheld it shine. And he knew that it was mine, And into my garden stole When the night had veiled the pole; 15 In the morning glad I see My foe outstretched beneath the tree. 7 © OCR 2022 J352/21 Jun22 Turn over Anger by Charles and Mary Lamb 1 Anger in its time and place May assume a kind of grace. It must have some reason in it, And not last beyond a minute. 5 If to further lengths it go, It does into malice grow. ’Tis the difference that we see ’Twixt the serpent and the bee. If the latter you provoke 10 It inflicts a hasty stroke, Puts you to some little pain, But it never stings again. Close in tufted bush or brake Lurks the poison-swelled snake 15 Nursing up his cherished wrath; In the purlieus of1 his path, In the cold, or in the warm, Mean him good, or mean him harm, Wheresoever fate may bring you, 20 The vile snake will always sting you. 1purlieus of = area near 8 © OCR 2022 J352/21 Jun22 3 Youth and Age Read the two poems below and then answer both part a) and part b). You are advised to spend about 45 minutes on part a) and 30 minutes on part b). a) Compare how these poems present an adult’s thoughts about a young person. You should consider: • ideas and attitudes in each poem • tone and atmosphere in each poem • the effects of the language and structure used. [20] AND b) Explore in detail one other poem from your anthology which presents concerns about young people. [20] Midnight on the Great Western by Thomas Hardy 1 In the third-class seat sat the journeying boy, And the roof-lamp’s oily flame Played down on his listless form and face, Bewrapt past knowing to what he was going [Show More]

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