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Someone explaining their love to the loved one
Section A: Poetry across Time. Love and Relationships. Read the two poems below and then answer both part a) and part b). You are advised to spend about 45 minutes on part a) and 30 minutes on part b). The poems are Fin de Fête by Charlotte Mew and Love's Philosophy by P. B. Shelley.
Compare how these poems present someone explaining their love to the loved one.
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Marking points
- 1 Addresses the stated comparison of someone explaining love to the loved one.
- 2 Compares ideas, attitudes, tone and atmosphere across both poems.
- 3 Analyses language, form and structure, such as figurative language, rhyme, stanza movement, enjambment or punctuation.
- 4 Supports interpretation with relevant textual references or quotations from both poems.
Why this answer loses marks
Both poems are about love, and Shelley sounds more passionate while Mew sounds sad.
This notices a broad contrast but does not closely analyse language, form or structure in both poems.