'Shut Out' :A complete set of notes for OCR Paper 1 A Level Comparative Essay
- The essay tests AO1,AO3, AO4 and AO5
1. Overview
remember – you will be asked about Rossetti in Paper 1 Section 2 where you need to
engage in extensive comparative analysis between it and A Doll’s House. This is because
AO4 is worth 25% of the total of 30 marks. It is essential that you also have a strong grasp
on AO3 in relation to the poem’s being received and influenced fallen - concerns.
This page will be complete for the lengthy poem Goblin Market.
It will include:
● Summary and analysis of key scenes/quotes/themes
● Relevant AO3
● Relevant AO5 – to the poem itself specifically
● Relevant AO4 about how this could be compared to A Doll’s House
Written in 1856 and published in her 1862 collection alongside Goblin Market, its original title
was ‘What’s Happened to Me’, inviting a deep interpretation. It is a deeply emotional
narrative allegory poem written in the first person, with the speaker being an imprisoned
woman in exile.
1.
Rossetti’s speaker laments that a garden that once belonged to her has now been lost, as a
spirit without a shadow guards the gate whom the speaker pleads with, where the guard
doesn’t answer and makes it worse.
2.
Guarded garden can be potentially linked to the Garden of Eden in the biblical creation story
that was tempting to Adam and Eve.
Key Quotes and Themes
Themes Quote Analysis
Isolation/ “the door was shut. Sense of isolation from the offset introduction of the
Exclusion I looked between poem, caesura adds finality to the idea that women
the iron bars” are trapped within societal expectations.
“shadowless
spirit… like the
- The essay tests AO1,AO3, AO4 and AO5
1. Overview
remember – you will be asked about Rossetti in Paper 1 Section 2 where you need to
engage in extensive comparative analysis between it and A Doll’s House. This is because
AO4 is worth 25% of the total of 30 marks. It is essential that you also have a strong grasp
on AO3 in relation to the poem’s being received and influenced fallen - concerns.
This page will be complete for the lengthy poem Goblin Market.
It will include:
● Summary and analysis of key scenes/quotes/themes
● Relevant AO3
● Relevant AO5 – to the poem itself specifically
● Relevant AO4 about how this could be compared to A Doll’s House
Written in 1856 and published in her 1862 collection alongside Goblin Market, its original title
was ‘What’s Happened to Me’, inviting a deep interpretation. It is a deeply emotional
narrative allegory poem written in the first person, with the speaker being an imprisoned
woman in exile.
1.
Rossetti’s speaker laments that a garden that once belonged to her has now been lost, as a
spirit without a shadow guards the gate whom the speaker pleads with, where the guard
doesn’t answer and makes it worse.
2.
Guarded garden can be potentially linked to the Garden of Eden in the biblical creation story
that was tempting to Adam and Eve.
Key Quotes and Themes
Themes Quote Analysis
Isolation/ “the door was shut. Sense of isolation from the offset introduction of the
Exclusion I looked between poem, caesura adds finality to the idea that women
the iron bars” are trapped within societal expectations.
“shadowless
spirit… like the
