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IGCSE Blank Poem Copies
Stormcock in Elder
(Ruth Pitter)
Either 3 Read this poem, and then answer the question that follows it:
In Praise of Creation
How does Jennings use striking words and images in this poem?
Either 3 Read this poem, and then answer the question that follows it:
(Allen Curnow)
Or 4 What does Constantine’s writing make you feel about the people in Watching for Dolphins?
(David Constantine)
Either 3 Read this poem, and then answer the question that follows it:
(Billy Collins)
How does Collins create vivid impressions of the cows in this poem?
The Kraken
Either 3 Read this poem, and then answer the question that follows it:
(Charlotte Smith)
Explore the ways in which Smith creates vivid effects in this poem.
Or 4 In what ways does Peter Reading create powerful impressions of the whales in
Cetacean?
Cetacean
Then they arched their backs, then arched their tail stocks ready
for diving.
Then the flukes were visible just before the creatures vanished,
slipping into the deep again, at a shallow angle.
(Peter Reading)
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SECTION A: POETRY
Answer one question from this section.
BILLY COLLINS: from Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems
Either 1 Read this poem, and then answer the question that follows it:
Explore how Collins creates such vivid impressions of the cows in this poem.
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Either 3 Read this poem, and then answer the question that follows it:
How does Hopkins vividly convey thoughts and feelings about the bird in this poem?
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Or 4 How does Awoonor make The Sea Eats the Land at Home such a moving poem?
(Kofi Awoonor)
Either 3 Read this poem, and then answer the question that follows it:
Coming
On longer evenings,
Light, chill and yellow,
Bathes the serene
Foreheads of houses.
A thrush sings, 5
Laurel-surrounded
In the deep bare garden,
Its fresh-peeled voice
Astonishing the brickwork.
It will be spring soon, 10
It will be spring soon—
And I, whose childhood
Is a forgotten boredom,
Feel like a child
Who comes on a scene 15
Of adult reconciling,
And can understand nothing
But the unusual laughter,
And starts to be happy.
(Philip Larkin)
How does Larkin vividly convey his response to the coming of spring in this poem?
Or 4 How does Cowper strikingly convey ideas about nature in The Poplar-Field?
The Poplar-Field
(William Cowper)
Either 3 Read this poem, and then answer the question that follows it:
London Snow
(Robert Bridges)
How does Bridges vividly convey the effects of the snowfall in this poem?
Or 4 Explore the ways in which Millay makes The Buck in the Snow such a sad poem.
How strange a thing is death, bringing to his knees, bringing to his antlers
The buck in the snow.
How strange a thing--a mile away by now, it may be,
Under the heavy hemlocks that as the moments pass 10
Shift their loads a little, letting fall a feather of snow--
Life, looking out attentive from the eyes of the doe.