SECTION A: POETRY CAROL ANN DUFFY: from New Selected Poems Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing. Either 5 Read this poem, and then answer the question that follows it: Recognition Things get away from one. I've let myself go, I know. Children? I've had three and don't even know them. I strain to remember a time when my body felt lighter. Years. My face is swollen with regrets. I put powder on, but it flakes off. I love him, through habit, but the proof has evaporated. He gets upset. I tried to do all the essentials on one trip. Foolish, yes, but I was weepy all morning. Quiche. A blond boy swung me up in his arms and promised the earth. You see, this came back to me as I stood on the scales. I wept. Shallots. In the window, creamy ladies held a pose which left me clogged and old. The waste. I'd forgotten my purse, fumbled; the shopgirl gaped at me, compassionless. Claret. I blushed. Cheese. Kleenex. It did happen. I lay in my slip on wet grass, laughing. Years. I had to rush out, blind in a hot flush, and bumped into an anxious, dowdy matron who touched the cold mirror and stared at me. Stared and said I'm sorry sorry sorry.

1. (a)Explore the ways in which Duffy powerfully portrays growing old in this poem.[25]