O-LevelLiterature in EnglishPoetry2010/12 · May/June 2025 · Q525 Marks

SECTION A: POETRY Answer one question from this section. TED HUGHES: from New Selected Poems Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing. Read this poem, and then answer the question that follows it: Football at Slack Between plunging valleys, on a bareback of hill Content removed due to copyright restrictions. Lifted the cloud's edge, to watch them.

Explore the ways in which Hughes vividly depicts the relationship between men and nature in this poem.[25]

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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 2025 Paper 1 Variant 2, question 5.

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