O-LevelLiterature in EnglishPoetry2010/12 · May/June 2023 · Q425 Marks

Or 4 How does Fairburn make Rhyme of the Dead Self such a memorable poem? Rhyme of the Dead Self Tonight I have taken all that I was and strangled him that pale lily-white lad I have choked him with these my hands these claws catching him as he lay a-dreaming in his bed. Then chuckling I dragged out his foolish brains that were full of pretty love-tales heighho the holly and emptied them holus bolus to the drains those dreams of love oh what ruinous folly. 5 He is dead pale youth and he shall not rise on the third day or any other day sloughed like a snakeskin there he lies and he shall not trouble me again for aye. 10 (A R D Fairburn)

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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 2023 Paper 1 Variant 2, question 4.

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