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The Romantics: Edexcel A‑Level English Literature questions

Every Edexcel A-Level English Literature exam question on The Romantics, 2016–2025, with its mark scheme and examiner’s report.

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  1. Q11

    June 2025 · Paper 3

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All 18 questions on The Romantics, as a list
  1. June 2025, Paper 3, Q11 (30 marks): Explore the ways in which the passage of time is presented in Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey by Wordsworth and one other poem. You must relate y
  2. June 2025, Paper 3, Q12 (30 marks): Explore the ways in which seasons are portrayed in ‘The cold earth slept below’ by Shelley and one other poem. You must relate your discussion to relevant conte
  3. June 2024, Paper 3, Q11 (30 marks): Explore the ways in which attitudes to ageing are presented in So We’ll Go no more A Roving by Lord Byron and one other poem. You must relate your discussion to
  4. June 2024, Paper 3, Q12 (30 marks): Explore the ways in which melancholy is presented in Ode on Melancholy by John Keats and one other poem. You must relate your discussion to relevant contextual
  5. June 2023, Paper 3, Q11 (30 marks): Explore the ways in which the power of the creative mind is portrayed in Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats and one other poem. You must relate your discussion
  6. June 2023, Paper 3, Q12 (30 marks): Explore the ways in which poets present innocence in Songs of Innocence: Holy Thursday by William Blake and one other poem. You must relate your discussion to r
  7. June 2022, Paper 3, Q11 (30 marks): Explore the ways in which suffering is presented in Songs of Experience: London by William Blake and in one other poem. You must relate your discussion to relev
  8. June 2022, Paper 3, Q12 (30 marks): Explore the ways in which the poet’s vision is presented in Ode to the West Wind by Shelley and in one other poem. You must relate your discussion to relevant c
  9. November 2021, Paper 3, Q11 (30 marks): Explore the ways in which poets use imagery in The Sick Rose by William Blake and in one other poem. You must relate your discussion to relevant contextual fact
  10. November 2021, Paper 3, Q12 (30 marks): Explore the ways attitudes to life are presented in Byron’s Lines Inscribed upon a Cup Formed from a Skull and in one other poem. You must relate your discussio
  11. October 2020, Paper 3, Q11 (30 marks): Explore the ways in which the power of nature is presented in Wordsworth’s Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey and in one other poem. You must relate
  12. October 2020, Paper 3, Q12 (30 marks): Explore the ways in which the individual is presented in Shelley’s Stanzas Written in Dejection, near Naples and in one other poem. You must relate your discuss
  13. June 2019, Paper 3, Q11 (30 marks): Explore the ways in which human nature is presented in Songs of Experience: Holy Thursday (‘Is this a holy thing to see…?’) by Blake and in one other poem. You
  14. June 2019, Paper 3, Q12 (30 marks): Explore the ways in which personal reflection is presented in Sonnet on the Sea by Keats and in one other poem. You must relate your discussion to relevant cont
  15. June 2018, Paper 3, Q11 (30 marks): Explore the ways in which death is presented in ‘The cold earth slept below’ by Shelley and in one other poem. You must relate your discussion to relevant conte
  16. June 2018, Paper 3, Q12 (30 marks): Explore the ways in which childhood is presented in Wordsworth’s Ode: Intimations of Immortality and in one other poem. You must relate your discussion to relev
  17. June 2017, Paper 3, Q11 (30 marks): Explore the ways in which the natural world is portrayed in Lines Written in Early Spring by William Wordsworth and one other poem. You must relate your discuss
  18. June 2017, Paper 3, Q12 (30 marks): Explore the ways in which the past is presented in R Alcona to J Brenzaida by Emily Brontё and one other poem. You must relate your discussion to relevant conte

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