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O-LevelLiterature in EnglishPoetry2010/12 · Oct/Nov 2020 · Q225 Marks

Those Winter Sundays Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him. I'd wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking. When the rooms were warm, he'd call, and slowly I would rise and dress, fearing the chronic angers of that house, Speaking indifferently to him, who had driven out the cold and polished my good shoes as well. What did I know, what did I know of love's austere and lonely offices? (Robert Hayden)

  1. (full question)What striking impressions of his father does Hayden create for you in Those Winter Sundays?[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 2020 Paper 1 Variant 2, question 2.

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