Edexcel GCSE English Literature Paper 2P November 2021 question paper

1 Re-read A Child to his Sick Grandfather. Choose one other poem from the Relationships anthology.

Compare how family relationships are presented in the two poems.

In your answer, you should consider the:

• poets’ use of language, form and structure

• influence of the contexts in which the poems were written.

The poems you have studied are:

La Belle Dame Sans Merci – John Keats A Child to his Sick Grandfather – Joanna Baillie She Walks in Beauty – Lord Byron A Complaint – William Wordsworth Neutral Tones – Thomas Hardy Sonnet 43 – Elizabeth Barrett Browning My Last Duchess – Robert Browning 1st Date – She and 1st Date – He – Wendy Cope Valentine – Carol Ann Duffy One Flesh – Elizabeth Jennings i wanna be yours – John Cooper Clarke Love’s Dog – Jen Hadfield Nettles – Vernon Scannell The Manhunt – Simon Armitage My Father Would Not Show Us – Ingrid de Kok

2 Re-read Exposure. Choose one other poem from the Conflict anthology.

Compare how war is presented in the two poems.

In your answer, you should consider the:

• poets’ use of language, form and structure

• influence of the contexts in which the poems were written.

The poems you have studied are:

A Poison Tree – William Blake The Destruction of Sennacherib – Lord Byron Extract from The Prelude – William Wordsworth The Man He Killed – Thomas Hardy Cousin Kate – Christina Rossetti Half-caste – John Agard Exposure – Wilfred Owen The Charge of the Light Brigade – Alfred, Lord Tennyson Catrin – Gillian Clarke War Photographer – Carole Satyamurti Belfast Confetti – Ciaran Carson The Class Game – Mary Casey Poppies – Jane Weir No Problem – Benjamin Zephaniah What Were They Like? – Denise Levertov

3 Re-read Nothing’s Changed. Choose one other poem from the Time and Place anthology.

Compare how a specific place is presented in the two poems.

In your answer, you should consider the:

• poets’ use of language, form and structure

• influence of the contexts in which the poems were written.

The poems you have studied are:

To Autumn – John Keats Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 – William Wordsworth London – William Blake I started Early – Took my Dog – Emily Dickinson Where the Picnic was – Thomas Hardy Adlestrop – Edward Thomas Home Thoughts from Abroad – Robert Browning First Flight – U.A. Fanthorpe Stewart Island – Fleur Adcock Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan – Moniza Alvi Hurricane Hits England – Grace Nichols Nothing’s Changed – Tatamkhulu Afrika Postcard from a Travel Snob – Sophie Hannah In Romney Marsh – John Davidson Absence – Elizabeth Jennings

4 Re-read We Refugees. Choose one other poem from the Belonging anthology.

Compare how places are presented in the two poems.

In your answer, you should consider the:

• poets’ use of language, form and structure

• the influence of the contexts in which the poems were written.

TOTAL FOR PART 1 = 20 MARKS

The poems you have studied are:

To My Sister – William Wordsworth Captain Cook (To My Brother) – Letitia Elizabeth Landon Sunday Dip – John Clare Mild the Mist Upon the Hill – Emily Brontë Clear and Gentle Stream – Robert Bridges I Remember, I Remember – Thomas Hood Island Man – Grace Nichols Peckham Rye Lane – A K Blakemore We Refugees – Benjamin Zephaniah Us – Zaffar Kunial In Wales, wanting to be Italian – Imtiaz Dharker Kumukanda – Kayo Chingonyi Jamaican British – Raymond Antrobus My Mother’s Kitchen – Choman Hardi The Émigrée – Carol Rumens

5 Compare the ways the writers present different sporting experiences in Poem 1: Boots and Poem 2: Absent Player.

In your answer, you should compare:

• the ideas in the poems

• the poets’ use of language

• the poets’ use of form and structure.

Use evidence from the poems to support your comparison.

TOTAL FOR PART 2 = 20 MARKS