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UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS General Certificate of Education Advanced Subsidiary Level and Advanced Level Advanced International Certificate of Education
LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE IN ENGLISH LITERATURE IN ENGLISH (HALF CREDIT) Paper 9 Poetry, Prose and Drama Paper 1 Poetry, Prose and Drama
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8695/09 0397/01
May/June 2009 2 hours
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READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST If you have been given an Answer Booklet, follow the instructions on the front cover of the Booklet. Write your Centre number, candidate number and name on all the work you hand in. Write in dark blue or black pen. Do not use staples, paper clips, highlighters, glue or correction fluid. Answer two questions, each from a different section. You are reminded of the need for good English and clear presentation in your answers. At the end of the examination, fasten all your work securely together. All questions in this paper carry equal marks.
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2 Section A: Poetry
SUJATA BHATT: Point No Point 1 Either (a) ‘The other night I dreamt English Was my middle name.’ Referring to two or three poems you have studied, discuss ways in which Bhatt’s poetry explores different cultural influences. Or (b) Comment closely on the following poem, discussing ways in which it presents the vibrancy of life in India. The Doors Are Always Open Everywhere you turn there are goats, some black and lumpy. Others, with oily mushroom-soft hair, sticky yellow in Muslim sand shaded by the mosque. Next door there’s a kerosene smeared kitchen. We share a window with the woman who lives with goats. Now she unwraps some cheese now she beats and kneads a little boy and screams ‘Idiot! Don’t you tease that pregnant goat again!’ I look away: outside the rooster runs away from his dangling sliced head while the...
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