3 Home
Either:
(a) ‘Poets writing about home are usually concerned with presenting it as a place of
safety.’
Compare and contrast the ways in which home is presented in at least two
poems, in the light of this statement.
Or:
(b) ‘A writer who cannot create a vivid sense of place has no business writing a
poem
about home.’
Using one of the following poems as a starting point, compare and contrast how
poets present a sense of place in at least one other poem, in the light of this
statement.
Either Ruins of a Great House, DerekWalcott (Here to Eternity)
Or The Lake Isle of Innisfree,W B Yeats (Oxford Anthology of English Poetry)
Or The House of Hospitalities, Thomas Hardy (The Rattle Bag)
(AO1 = 15, AO2 = 5, AO3 = 20)
(Total for Question 3 = 40marks)
3 Home
Either:
(a) ‘Poets who wish to write convincingly about home must fi nd an appropriate voice
if they are to engage the interest of their readers.’
Compare and contrast the ways in which home is presented in at least two
poems, in the light of this statement.
Or:
(b) ‘Writers dealing with the topic of home are just trying to fi nd another way of
writing love poems.’
Using one of the following poems as a starting point, compare and contrast how
poets write about home in at least one other poem, in the light of this statement.
Either Robert Browning Love in a Life (Here to Eternity)
Or George Barker To My Mother (Oxford Anthology of English Poetry)
Or e e cummings ‘anyone lived in a pretty how town’ (The Rattle Bag)
(AO1 = 15, AO2 = 5, AO3 = 20)
(Total for Question 3 = 40 marks
3 Home
Either:
(a) ‘Poems about home can seem to be about surviving it.’
Compare and contrast the ways in which home is presented in at least two
poems, in the light of this statement.
Or:
(b) ‘Poets who make effective use of contrast are often the most successful because
they better emphasise what makes home so important.’
Using one of the following poems as a starting point, compare and contrast how
poets make use of contrast in writing about home in at least one other poem.
Either Louis MacNeice House on a Cliff (Here to Eternity)
Or Charles Lamb The Old Familiar Faces (Oxford Anthology of English Poetry)
Or Gwendolyn Brooks The Ballad of Rudolph Reed (The Rattle Bag)
(AO1 = 15, AO2 = 5, AO3 = 20)
(Total for Question 3 = 40 marks)
Home
Either:
(a) ‘Poets writing about home are usually concerned with presenting it as a place of
safety.’
Compare and contrast the ways in which home is presented in at least two
poems, in the light of this statement.
Or:
(b) ‘A writer who cannot create a vivid sense of place has no business writing a
poem
about home.’
Using one of the following poems as a starting point, compare and contrast how
poets present a sense of place in at least one other poem, in the light of this
statement.
Either Ruins of a Great House, DerekWalcott (Here to Eternity)
Or The Lake Isle of Innisfree,W B Yeats (Oxford Anthology of English Poetry)
Or The House of Hospitalities, Thomas Hardy (The Rattle Bag)
(AO1 = 15, AO2 = 5, AO3 = 20)
(Total for Question 3 = 40marks
Home
Either:
(a) ‘Poets who wish to write convincingly about home must fi nd an appropriate voice
if they are to engage the interest of their readers.’
Compare and contrast the ways in which home is presented in at least two
poems, in the light of this statement.
Or:
(b) ‘Writers dealing with the topic of home are just trying to fi nd another way of
writing love poems.’
Using one of the following poems as a starting point, compare and contrast how
poets write about home in at least one other poem, in the light of this statement.
Either Robert Browning Love in a Life (Here to Eternity)
Or George Barker To My Mother (Oxford Anthology of English Poetry)
Or e e cummings ‘anyone lived in a pretty how town’ (The Rattle Bag)
(AO1 = 15, AO2 = 5, AO3 = 20)
(Total for Question 3 = 40 marks)
3 Home
Either:
(a) ‘Many poets writing about home are dependent on imagery and symbolism to
engage the reader’s interest.’
Compare and contrast the ways in which poets use imagery and symbolism to
present home in at least two poems.
Or:
(b) ‘Poets successfully connect the theme of nature and the natural world with
their ideas about home. Their intention is to give a more vivid picture of the
environment which they are describing.’
Using one of the following poems as a starting point, compare and contrast how
poets present this theme in at least two poems.
Either Louis MacNeice House on a Cliff (Here to Eternity)
or D H Lawrence End of Another Home Holiday (Oxford Anthology of English
Poetry)
or W H Auden The Wanderer (The Rattle Bag).
(AO1 = 15, AO2 = 5, AO3 = 20)
3 Home
Either:
(a) ‘Home is only where we eat and sleep...’
Compare and contrast the ways in which home is presented in at least two poems
in the light of this claim.
Or:
(b) ‘Poets dealing with the concept of home are really writing only about themselves.’
Using one of the following poems as a starting point, compare and contrast
how poets write about themselves in their presentation of home in at least two
poems.
Either Samuel Taylor Coleridge Frost at Midnight (Here to Eternity)
or Robert Graves Parent to Children (Oxford Anthology of English Poetry)
or Louis MacNeice Autobiography (The Rattle Bag).
(AO1 = 15, AO2 = 5, AO3 = 20)
(Total for Question 3 = 40 marks)
3 Home
Either:
(a) ‘Home haunts those who write about it.’
Compare and contrast the ways in which home is presented in at least two
poems, in the light of this statement.
Or:
(b) ‘Poets explore the themes of loneliness and isolation in writing about home.’
Using one of the following poems as a starting point, compare and contrast how
poets present these themes in at least one other poem.
Either Edward Thomas The New House (Here to Eternity)
or Walter de la Mare The Listeners (Oxford Anthology of English Poetry)
or John Betjeman Death In Leamington (The Rattle Bag).
(AO1 = 15, AO2 = 5, AO3 = 20)
(Total for Question 3 = 40 marks)