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O-LevelLiterature in EnglishPoetry2010/12 · Oct/Nov 2016 · Q225 Marks

Explore the ways in which Hardy movingly conveys the grief of the speaker in The Voice. The Voice Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me, Saying that now you are not as you were When you had changed from the one who was all to me, But as at first, when our day was fair. Can it be you that I hear? Let me view you, then, Standing as when I drew near to the town Where you would wait for me: yes, as I knew you then, Even to the original air-blue gown! Or is it only the breeze, in its listlessness Travelling across the wet mead to me here, You being ever dissolved to wan wistlessness, Heard no more again far or near? Thus I; faltering forward, Leaves around me falling, Wind oozing thin through the thorn from norward, And the woman calling.

  1. (a)Explore the ways in which Hardy movingly conveys the grief of the speaker in The Voice.[25]

Mark scheme

Marking points from the official mark scheme (Oct/Nov 2016). The mark or mark type is shown in brackets.

  1. [25-23] Sustains personal engagement with task and text; sustains a critical understanding of the text showing individuality and insight; responds sensitively and in detail to the way the writer achieves effects; incorporates well-selected reference to the text skilfully and with flair.

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Topic
Poetry, O-Level Literature in English (syllabus 2010). Structured question, 25 marks.
Source
O-Level Literature in English, Oct/Nov 2016 Paper 1 Variant 2, question 2.

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