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O-LevelLiterature in EnglishPoetry2010/12 · Oct/Nov 2014 · Q1325 Marks

Read this poem, and then answer the question that follows it: Nobody Comes Tree-leaves labour up and down, And through them the fainting light Succumbs to the crawl of night. Outside in the road the telegraph wire To the town from the darkening land Intones to travellers like a spectral lyre Swept by a spectral hand. A car comes up, with lamps full-glare, That flash upon a tree: It has nothing to do with me, And whangs along in a world of its own, Leaving a blacker air; And mute by the gate I stand again alone, And nobody pulls up there. How does Hardy make the feelings of the speaker so vivid in this poem?

  1. (a)How does Hardy make the feelings of the speaker so vivid in this poem?[25]

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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, Oct/Nov 2014 Paper 1 Variant 2, question 13.

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