Oxford Cambridge and RSA - 2025
Wednesday 4 June 2025 – Afternoon
A Level English Language and Literature (EMC)
H474/02 The language of poetry and plays
Time allowed: 2 hours
(Verified Question Paper With Mark
Scheme Combined June 2025)
, INSTRUCTIONS
• Use black ink.
• Write your answer to each question in the Answer Booklet. The question
numbers must be clearly shown.
• Fill in the boxes on the front of the Answer Booklet.
• Answer one question in Section A and one in Section B.
INFORMATION
• The total mark for this paper is 64.
• The marks for each question are shown in brackets [ ].
• This document has 20 pages.
ADVICE
• Read each question carefully before you start your answer.
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Section A
Poetry: poetic and stylistic analysis
William Blake
Emily Dickinson
Malika Booker
Fatima Asghar
Carol Ann Duffy
Jacob Sam-La Rose
Answer one question from this section.
You should spend about one hour on this section.
1 William Blake
Explore how Blake presents attitudes towards Christian beliefs in ‘The Divine Image
(I)’ and make connections with one or two other poems from your collection.
You should consider Blake’s use of poetic and stylistic techniques and significant
literary or other relevant contexts.
[32]
The Divine Image
To Mercy Pity Peace and
Love, All pray in their
distress:
And to these virtues of
delight Return their
thankfulness.
For Mercy Pity Peace and
Love, Is God our father dear,
And Mercy Pity Peace and
Love, Is Man his child and
care.
For Mercy has a human
heart Pity, a human face:
And Love, the human form
divine, And Peace, the human
dress.
Then every man of every
clime, That prays in his
distress, Prays to the
human form divine Love
Mercy Pity Peace.
And all must love the human
form, In heathen, turk or jew.
© OCR H474/02
2025 Jun25
, 3
Where Mercy, Love, and Pity
dwell There God is dwelling
too.
© OCR H474/02 Turn over
2025 Jun25
Wednesday 4 June 2025 – Afternoon
A Level English Language and Literature (EMC)
H474/02 The language of poetry and plays
Time allowed: 2 hours
(Verified Question Paper With Mark
Scheme Combined June 2025)
, INSTRUCTIONS
• Use black ink.
• Write your answer to each question in the Answer Booklet. The question
numbers must be clearly shown.
• Fill in the boxes on the front of the Answer Booklet.
• Answer one question in Section A and one in Section B.
INFORMATION
• The total mark for this paper is 64.
• The marks for each question are shown in brackets [ ].
• This document has 20 pages.
ADVICE
• Read each question carefully before you start your answer.
© OCR 2025
OCR is an exempt
[601/4704/0] DC (KAS)
Charity Turn over
357439/4
, 2
Section A
Poetry: poetic and stylistic analysis
William Blake
Emily Dickinson
Malika Booker
Fatima Asghar
Carol Ann Duffy
Jacob Sam-La Rose
Answer one question from this section.
You should spend about one hour on this section.
1 William Blake
Explore how Blake presents attitudes towards Christian beliefs in ‘The Divine Image
(I)’ and make connections with one or two other poems from your collection.
You should consider Blake’s use of poetic and stylistic techniques and significant
literary or other relevant contexts.
[32]
The Divine Image
To Mercy Pity Peace and
Love, All pray in their
distress:
And to these virtues of
delight Return their
thankfulness.
For Mercy Pity Peace and
Love, Is God our father dear,
And Mercy Pity Peace and
Love, Is Man his child and
care.
For Mercy has a human
heart Pity, a human face:
And Love, the human form
divine, And Peace, the human
dress.
Then every man of every
clime, That prays in his
distress, Prays to the
human form divine Love
Mercy Pity Peace.
And all must love the human
form, In heathen, turk or jew.
© OCR H474/02
2025 Jun25
, 3
Where Mercy, Love, and Pity
dwell There God is dwelling
too.
© OCR H474/02 Turn over
2025 Jun25
