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O-LevelLiterature in EnglishPoetry2010/12 · May/June 2017 · Q325 Marks

Either 3 Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing. Read this poem, and then answer the question that follows it: Last Sonnet Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art– Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like Nature's patient sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priest-like task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors– No–yet still steadfast, still unchangeable, Pillowed upon my fair love's ripening breast, To feel for ever its soft fall and swell, Awake for ever in a sweet unrest, Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath, And so live ever–or else swoon to death. (John Keats) How does Keats movingly convey powerful emotions in this poem?

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Poetry, O-Level Literature in English (syllabus 2010). Structured question, 25 marks.
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O-Level Literature in English, May/June 2017 Paper 1 Variant 2, question 3.

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