C a m b ri d g e IG C SE

Cambridge IGCSE

Paper 1 - Poetry & Prose (2020 & 2021) Literature in English (0475) (0992) Total marks: 50 Time allowed: 1 hour 30 minutes

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CONTENTS Section A: Poetry

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Songs of Ourselves: from Vol 1, Part 3 Songs of Ourselves: from Vol 2, Part 2 Carol Ann Duffy: from New Selected Poems 1984 ? 2004

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Section B: Prose

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Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre Anita Desai: In Custody Charles Dickens: Hard Times Zora Neale Hurston: Their Eyes Were Watching God John Knowles: A Separate Peace George Orwell: Nineteen Eighty-Four Alan Paton: Cry, The Beloved Country from Stories of Ourselves

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SECTION A: POETRY Answer one question from this section. SONGS OF OURSELVES: from Vol 1, Part 3 Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing.

Either 1 Read this poem, and then answer the question that follows it:

Sonnet 43 How do I love thee? Let me count the ways! I love thee to the depth & breadth & height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and Ideal Grace. I love thee to the level of everyday's Most quiet need, by sun & candlelight I love thee freely, as men strive for Right, I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise; I love thee with the passion, put to use In my old griefs, ... and with my childhood's faith: I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost Saints. I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.

(Elizabeth Barrett Browning)

Explore the ways in which Barrett Browning conveys the intensity of her love in Sonnet 43.

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2 How does Angelou use words and images to striking effect in Caged

Bird?

Caged Bird by Maya Angelou can be found on p. 115 of Songs of Ourselves, Volume 1

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SONGS OF OURSELVES: from Part 2

Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing.

Either 3 Read this poem, and then answer the question that follows it:

The Poplar-Field

The poplars are felled, farewell to the shade And the whispering sound of the cool colonnade, The winds play no longer, and sing in the leaves, Nor Ouse on his bosom their image receives.

Twelve years have elapsed since I last took a view Of my favourite field and the bank where they grew, And now in the grass behold they are laid, And the tree is my seat that once lent me a shade.

The blackbird has fled to another retreat Where the hazels afford him a screen from the heat, And the scene where his melody charmed me before, Resounds with his sweet-flowing ditty no more.

My fugitive years are all hasting away, And I must ere long lie as lowly as they, With a turf on my breast, and a stone at my head, Ere another such grove shall arise in its stead.

`Tis a sight to engage me, if any thing can, To muse on the perishing pleasures of man; Though his life be a dream, his enjoyments, I see, Have a being less durable even than he.

(William Cowper)

How does Cowper convey a sense of loss in The Poplar-Field?

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4 How does Smith use words and images to striking effect in Written

Near a Port on a Dark Evening?

Written Near a Port on a Dark Evening

Huge vapors brood above the clifted shore, Night on the Ocean settles, dark and mute,

Save where is heard the repercussive roar Of drowsy billows, on the rugged foot

Of rocks remote; or still more distant tone Of seamen in the anchored bark that tell

The watch relieved; or one deep voice alone Singing the hour, and bidding "Strike the bell."

All is black shadow, but the lucid line Marked by the light surf on the level sand,

Of where afar the ship-lights faintly shine Like wandering fairy fires, that oft on land

Mislead the Pilgrim - Such the dubious ray That wavering Reason lends, in life's long darkling way.

(Charlotte Smith)

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Carol Ann Duffy: from New Selected Poems 1984 ? 2004 Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing. Either 5 Read this poem, and then answer the question that follows it:

War Photographer by Carol Ann Duffy can be found on p. 24 of New Selected Poems 1984 ? 2004 How does Duffy convey the impact of conflict on the photographer in War Photographer?

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6 How does Duffy present romantic love in the poem Valentine?

Valentine b y Carol Ann Duffy can be found on p. 121 of New Selected Poems 1984 ? 2004

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