•2 hours 15 minutes
•Answer one question from Section A, one
question from Section B and both questions in Section C.
•The maximum mark for this paper is 96. •
AO4 will be assessed in Section A. There are 4 marks available for AO4 in
Section A in addition to 30 marks for answering the question. AO4 assesses the
following skills: Use a range of vocabulary and sentence structures for
clarity, purpose and effect, with accurate spelling and punctuation. • There
are 30 marks for Section B and 32 marks for Section C.
In ‘Mental Cases, how does the poet present the consequences of war on the soldiers?
The
poet presents a
consequence of war on the soldiers as being that war has ravaged the men and they
are forever changed and lessened. The soldiers are described by the speaker
using a metaphor as
being: “purgatorial shadows”. Just as a
shadow is
not a concrete being, provokes fear in others and is impossible to touch so
the soldiers are
no longer their full selves, are feared by others and can no longer be reached.
The war has diminished them to being an abstract object and not as substantial
as human beings and so lessened.
The poet presents a
consequence of war on the soldiers as that it leaves the soldiers forsaken and
lacking even protection by their faith. This is shown when a metaphor is
used to describe the soldiers as: “purgatorial shadows”.
Just
as purgatory is
halfway between heaven and hell, for those who have lived an imperfect life and
a place which is often forgotten about, so the soldiers are neither in the land of
the living or dead, have experienced and been a part of things that are
considered by some to be wrong (murder) and they have also been forgotten by
the nation. This highlights the idea that the men are no longer in a concrete
place but are hanging between two very different places and are even unable to
be saved by God.
The second unseen poetry question is
marked out of 8 and you have two things to do in your answer:
(i) Compare the use of language and
structure in the poems using subject terminology correctly
What
techniques do they both use? Is it to the same effect? Are they structured in
the same way?What
differences are there and why?
(ii)
Compare the effects of the writer’s methods on the reader
Do
they evoke the same emotions/ feelings/ so they portray the linked topic in the
same way/ do they contain the same ideas…
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