Here are some questions you can use to practice for your exam. You will get a blank copy of the poem it tells you to use, however you have to remember key quotes from several of the poems as you need one to compare it to, and without quotes it is difficult to analyse the language. An example question would be:Ĭompare the ways poets present ideas about power in ‘Ozymandias’ and in one other poem from ‘Power and Conflict’. For this you will have approximately 40 - 45 minutes to plan and write the answer.
Within the 30 marker for the seen poetry, you must write about the poem which it specifies, plus one other from the cluster. There will be 2 hours and 15 minutes for this exam, in which you must write a 34 marker (including 4 SPaG marks) on your Modern Text, a 30 marker for your anthology poetry and finally a 24 and an 8 marker for the unseen poetry. In 2019, the AQA English Literature Poetry and Prose exam is on Thursday 23rd May in the morning. For each poem it is necessary to know the context behind it, such as what inspired the poet to write the poem, or what was happening at the time of writing.
This may be a literal conflict for power, or a mental/emotional conflict. All the poems, naturally, have a link to either power or conflict. There are 15 poems in the AQA power and conflict cluster.