O-LevelLiterature in EnglishPoetry2010/12 · May/June 2018 · Q125 Marks

Either 1 Read this poem, and then answer the question that follows it: The Trees The trees are coming into leaf Like something almost being said; The recent buds relax and spread, Their greenness is a kind of grief. Is it that they are born again And we grow old? No, they die too. Their yearly trick of looking new Is written down in rings of grain. Yet still the unresting castles thresh In fullgrown thickness every May. Last year is dead, they seem to say, Begin afresh, afresh, afresh. (Philip Larkin)

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Topic: Poetry, O-Level Literature in English (syllabus 2010). Structured question, 25 marks.
Source: O-Level Literature in English, May/June 2018 Paper 1 Variant 2, question 1.

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