Oxford Cambridge and RSA
Monday 20 May 2024 – Morning
GCSE English Literature
J352/02 Exploring poetry and Shakespeare
Time allowed: 2 hours
* 9 9 3 6 9 2 0 1 0 0 *
You must have:
• the OCR 12-page Answer Booklet
Do not use:
• copies of the texts
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.
• All the questions in Section A have two parts, (a) and (b). Answer both parts of the
question on the poetry cluster you have studied.
• Answer one question on the text you have studied in Section B.
INFORMATION
• The total mark for this paper is 80.
• The marks for each question are shown in brackets [ ].
• Quality of extended response will be assessed in questions marked with an asterisk (*).
• This document has 16 pages.
ADVICE
• Read each question carefully before you start your answer.
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Contents Page
Section A – Poetry across time Question Page
Love and Relationships 1 4
Conflict 2 6
Youth and Age 3 8
Section B – Shakespeare Questions Page
Romeo and Juliet 4/5 10
The Merchant of Venice 6/7 11
Macbeth 8/9 12
Much Ado About Nothing 10/11 13
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Section A – Poetry across time
Answer both parts of the question on the poetry cluster you have studied.
1 Love and Relationships
Read the two poems below and then answer both part (a) and part (b).
You should spend about 45 minutes on part (a) and 30 minutes on part (b).
(a) Compare the ways in which these poems present how a person feels about themselves.
You should consider:
• ideas and attitudes in each poem
• tone and atmosphere in each poem
• the effects of the language and structure used. [20]
AND
(b) Explore in detail one other poem from your anthology which presents a satisfying relationship.
[20]
Love After Love by Derek Walcott
The time will come
when, with elation,
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror,
and each will smile at the other’s welcome, 5
and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you
all your life, whom you ignored 10
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,
the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life. 15
© OCR 2024 J352/02 Jun24
Monday 20 May 2024 – Morning
GCSE English Literature
J352/02 Exploring poetry and Shakespeare
Time allowed: 2 hours
* 9 9 3 6 9 2 0 1 0 0 *
You must have:
• the OCR 12-page Answer Booklet
Do not use:
• copies of the texts
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.
• All the questions in Section A have two parts, (a) and (b). Answer both parts of the
question on the poetry cluster you have studied.
• Answer one question on the text you have studied in Section B.
INFORMATION
• The total mark for this paper is 80.
• The marks for each question are shown in brackets [ ].
• Quality of extended response will be assessed in questions marked with an asterisk (*).
• This document has 16 pages.
ADVICE
• Read each question carefully before you start your answer.
© OCR 2024 [601/4872/X] OCR is an exempt Charity
DC (KN) 326280/6 Turn over
, 2
BLANK PAGE
© OCR 2024 J352/02 Jun24
, 3
Contents Page
Section A – Poetry across time Question Page
Love and Relationships 1 4
Conflict 2 6
Youth and Age 3 8
Section B – Shakespeare Questions Page
Romeo and Juliet 4/5 10
The Merchant of Venice 6/7 11
Macbeth 8/9 12
Much Ado About Nothing 10/11 13
© OCR 2024 J352/02 Jun24 Turn over
, 4
Section A – Poetry across time
Answer both parts of the question on the poetry cluster you have studied.
1 Love and Relationships
Read the two poems below and then answer both part (a) and part (b).
You should spend about 45 minutes on part (a) and 30 minutes on part (b).
(a) Compare the ways in which these poems present how a person feels about themselves.
You should consider:
• ideas and attitudes in each poem
• tone and atmosphere in each poem
• the effects of the language and structure used. [20]
AND
(b) Explore in detail one other poem from your anthology which presents a satisfying relationship.
[20]
Love After Love by Derek Walcott
The time will come
when, with elation,
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror,
and each will smile at the other’s welcome, 5
and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you
all your life, whom you ignored 10
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,
the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life. 15
© OCR 2024 J352/02 Jun24
