Paper 1 Q3 Ao1 Poems and Play

Question 1

Eolian Harp
- Connotes sexism

Answer 1

“gave me to posses…this Cot, and thee, heart-honoured Maid!”

“like some coy maid half yielding to her lover”
- Poetic language used to disguise deeper desires. Wishes to caress her as the wind “caress’d” the harp.

Question 2

Eolian Harp
- Pantheism

Answer 2

“Oh! the one life”
- Exalting in God in nature.

Question 3

This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison
- Dejection and loss

Answer 3

“Well, they are gone and here I must remain”
- Imperative verb

Question 4

This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison
- Power of nature

Answer 4

“As if I myself were there” he sees “my friends emerge”
- Nature transports him out of the “prison” which is only mental.

Question 5

This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison
- Personification of nature showing its power

Answer 5

“Behind the western ridge, thou glorious Sun!”
- Personification of Sun, power in nature.

Question 6

Dejection: An Ode
- Power of nature no longer affects him. Crippling health and unrequited love have sapped him of creative power.

Answer 6

Nature which “often sent my soul abroad” does no longer.

Instead “still I gaze - and with how blank an eye” at the beauty of the sun which used to inspire him.

Question 7

Fears in Solitude
- Religion is in nature NOT a book.

Answer 7

“Religious meanings in the form of nature”
- Even at a troubling time, still finds joy in nature.

But the bible is no more than a “superstitious instrument”

Question 8

Fears in Solitude
- Anti establishment, but still patriotic.

Answer 8

Britain has been “most tyrannous from east to west”.
- Radical, but later lines which attacked the government are removed.

“But, O dear Britain! O my Mother Isle”
- Still patriot at heart, foreshadows later conservative views.

Question 9

Xanadu is…

Answer 9

“holy” and “savage”
- Oxymoron to some. But there is holiness in returning to the primitive/ savage nature of human’s in Eden.

Question 10

Symbol of creativity in Kubla Khan

Answer 10

The beautiful surroundings:
- “pleasure dome” in “twice five miles fertile ground” and “deep romantic chasm”.

Produces a “mighty fountain momently forced”
- Also implicit sexual theme.

Question 11

How is creativity also delicate in Kubla Khan

Answer 11

“If I could revive her song…I would build that dome in the air”
- Creativity is delicate. Without the dream fully written due to interruption, the poetry can never be completed. Creativity is powerful but must be protected by the “walls and towers”.

Question 12

Youth and Age
- Change in life

Answer 12

“How lightly then it flashed along” with “no aid”
- Life was easier and smoother when young

Question 13

Youth and Age
- How age is strange

Answer 13

“what strange disguise”
- It feels unnatural being old, he believes he is still young at heart.

“Ere, I was old!”
- Conversational tone connotes air of surprise at realisation.

Question 14

Constancy to an ideal object
- Connotations of patriarchy

Answer 14

“To have a home, and English home, and thee!”
- Views S.H as object he wishes to own. Title reflects that he considers her an “object”.

“Home and thou are one”
- Associates S.H with domestic setting only.

Question 15

Torvalds names for Nora in Act 1

Answer 15

“spendthrift” and “expensive pet”

Question 16

Mrs Linde’s comment on Nora, and Nora’s response

Answer 16

Mrs L: “You’re a child Nora”

N: “I haven’t told you about the big thing”
- still sounds childish

Question 17

Dr Rank’s view on Krogstad

Answer 17

A “moral cripple”

Question 18

The extent to which Nora will go to get what she wants from Torvald

Answer 18

“Squirrel would do lots of pretty tricks for you if you granted her wish”

Question 19

Dr Rank’s view of Torvald

Answer 19

“Helmer’s such a sensitive chap”

Question 20

Innuendo’s between Nora and Dr Rank

Answer 20

“too fond of asparagus and foie gras”

“flesh coloured” silk stockings, “you can look a bit higher if you want to”

Question 21

What Krogstad suspects Nora is thinking

Answer 21

K: “or anything more desperate”
N: “how did you know”
- Backed up by melodramatic ending to Act 2 with Nora stating “Thirty-one hours to live”. Implies desire to commit suicide.

Question 22

Helmer’s view of Nora

Answer 22

“treasured possession”

Question 23

Helmer being disturbing and threatening

Answer 23

Fantasizes she is his “secret mistress”

“young and trembling and beautiful” was the girl he saw dancing the tarantella which is why he “seized you”.

Question 24

Torvald’s remark when he opens the letter.

Answer 24

“hypocrite, liar - worse, worse - a criminal!”
- Continues ranting even though Nora risked herself to save him.

After everything “you reward me like this”

Question 25

Nora’s response to Torvald’s reaction to the letter.

Answer 25

[stares unblinkingly at him]

“Yes. Like this.”

Question 26

Torvald’s reaction to the letter arriving to Nora, his reaction upon reading it and Nora’s response.

Answer 26

“Give it to me”
- Though addressed to Nora.

T: “I am saved!”
N: “What about me?”

Question 27

Nora’s final remarks.

Answer 27

“I’ve changed”

“You have never loved me, you just thought it was fun to be in love with me.”

“I’ve been your doll-wife, just as I was papa’s doll-child”

Question 28

Helmer’s reaction to Nora leaving

Answer 28

[sinks down on a chair by the door and buries his face in his hands]