Year 12 Mocks

Question 1

Poems for idealisation (anything positive)

Answer 1

Sonnet 116
She Walks in beauty

Question 2

Sonnet 116 points

Answer 2

• idealisation of feelings
• idea that love should be transcendent of barriers
• dismissal of opposition, only sees his own form of love as true

Question 3

She Walks in Beauty points

Answer 3

• idealisation of subject
• lack of acknowledgement of any shortcomings, only perfection addressed
• idealisation destined to end in disappointment as perfection can only exist in the imagination

Question 4

Garden of Love points

Answer 4

• idealisation and nostalgia surrounding young love
• interference of society and passing of time major contributing factor to disappointment
• results in permanent alteration of relationship

Question 5

La Bella points

Answer 5

• idealisation of female subject
• ideas of the future unrealistic
• attachment and desire facilitates disappointment