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Every Eduqas A-Level English Literature exam question on Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath, 2017–2025, with its mark scheme and examiner’s report.
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All 18 questions on Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath, as a list
- June 2025, Component 1, Q10 (60 marks): “Death is presented with a sense of fascination rather than fear or dread.” In the light of this comment, and with close reference to relevant contexts, examine
- June 2025, Component 1, Q11 (60 marks): “In both poets’ writing, landscapes are presented as having special power and significance.” In the light of this comment, and with close reference to relevant
- June 2024, Component 1, Q10 (60 marks): “Both poets seem preoccupied by ideas about power of one sort or another.” In the light of this comment and with close reference to relevant contexts, explore c
- June 2024, Component 1, Q11 (60 marks): “A poet’s special gift may often be seen in the ability to transform what seems ordinary into something of extraordinary significance.” In the light of this com
- June 2023, Component 1, Q10 (60 marks): “In both poets’ work the forces of nature seem hostile and comfortless.” In the light of this view and with close reference to relevant contexts, examine connec
- June 2023, Component 1, Q11 (60 marks): “Whatever the choice of subject matter, poets themselves are the primary focus of their own work.” In the light of this comment and with close reference to rele
- June 2022, Component 1, Q13 (60 marks): How far do you agree that Hughes and Plath are alike in “revealing what is uncivilised and instinctive beneath the surface of an apparently civilised world”? Yo
- June 2022, Component 1, Q14 (60 marks): “Hughes rarely writes about himself; Plath writes about nothing but herself.” In the light of this comment and with close reference to relevant contexts, examin
- Autumn 2021, Component 1, Q10 (60 marks): “In neither poet’s work is life presented as safe or secure; danger in one form or another seems ever present.” In the light of this comment and with close refe
- Autumn 2021, Component 1, Q11 (60 marks): With close reference to relevant contexts, explore connections between the ways in which Hughes and Plath “stimulate and disturb us by seeing beneath the surfac
- Autumn 2020, Component 1, Q10 (60 marks): “Nature provides inspiration but is never a source of comfort or consolation.” In the light of this comment, examine connections between the ways in which Hughe
- Autumn 2020, Component 1, Q11 (60 marks): “We are never uplifted but always engaged.” In the light of this comment on Plath’s poetry, examine connections between the ways in which both Hughes and Plath
- June 2019, Component 1, Q10 (60 marks): “Poetry which is too personal teaches us nothing about the wider world.” Explore connections between the ways in which both Hughes and Plath present personal ex
- June 2019, Component 1, Q11 (60 marks): “In facing up to distressing times, a poet must necessarily upset the reader.” Explore connections between the ways in which Hughes and Plath present disturbing
- June 2018, Component 1, Q10 (60 marks): “The subject matter is varied but the consciousness of mortality is consistent throughout both poets’ work.” In the light of this comment, what connections have
- June 2018, Component 1, Q11 (60 marks): “The twentieth century created a culture of directness and honesty in the arts, often giving offence.” How far would you apply this comment to the poetry of bot
- June 2017, Component 1, Q10 (60 marks): “Their poetry uncovers both beauty and terror in the domestic details of twentieth-century life.” In the light of this comment, what connections have you found
- June 2017, Component 1, Q11 (60 marks): “An uncompromising willingness to confront the pain of experience.” In the light of this comment, what connections have you found between the ways in which Hugh
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