Wynberg Boys High School ENGLISH HOME LANGUAGE GRADE 11 Task 8: Paper 2- Literature April 2010 TIME: 1 HR 30 MIN Examiners: DM/GO TOTAL: 60 MARKS INSTRUCTIONS Number your answers according to the numbering system in this question paper. Use the mark allocation as a guide to the length of your answers. Correct grammar, spelling and punctuation will count in your favour. Write neatly and legibly. SECTION A - POETRY NB: Question 1 is COMPULSORY. You must then choose TWO other poems from this section. QUESTION 1 (COMPULSORY) Today - Gabriela Pearse A woman with a gash She crawled beneath 10 so deep and wide in my skirt trembling and her black soul afraid and clasped came and spilled her my lifeboat legs. self over me. 5 But I had meetings Asking to be held to go to, 15 like no-one held her and a world to save. Asking to be fed like no-one fed her. 1.1 Quote the four consecutive words from stanza 1 which indicate that the woman was not physically hurt. [1] 1.2 The poet places the verb Asking at the beginning of stanza 2 and 3. Provide two possible reasons why she has done so. [2] 1.3.1 Name the figure of speech used in my lifeboat legs. [1] 1.3.2 Do you think the lifeboat image is effective? Justify your answer. [2] 1.4 Would you describe the content of the final stanza as anti-climactic? Explain your opinion. [2] 1.5 What is ironic about the final line of the poem? [2] NOW CHOOSE A FURTHER TWO POEMS FROM THIS SECTION 1
QUESTION 2 When I have fears - John Keats When I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain, Before high-piled books, in charactery, Hold like rich garners the full ripened grain; When I behold, upon the night s starred face, 5 Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, And think that I may never live to trace Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance; And when I feel, fair creature of an hour, That I shall never look upon thee more, 10 Never have relish in the faery power Of unreflecting love; - then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till love and fame to nothingness do sink. 2.1.1 What type of sonnet is this? [1] 2.1.2 Provide a reason for your answer in 2.1.1. [1] 2.2 Give a brief explanation of the metaphor used in the first quatrain. [2] 2.3 What is the word charactery in line 3 a reference to? [1] 2.4 In lines 7 and 8, the imminence of death assails the poet once again. 2.4.1 To which desire does he refer in this quatrain? [1] 2.4.2 What does he mean by the words the magic hand of chance? [1] 2.5.1 To what resolution does the poet eventually come, when he contemplates not fulfilling certain desires before he dies? (Do NOT simply quote.) [2] 2.5.2 Quote two separate words which form part of the sea imagery that Keats uses in [1] his resolution. 2
QUESTION 3 On his blindness - John Milton When I consider how my light is spent, Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one Talent which is death to hide, Lodged with me useless, though my Soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present 5 My true account, lest He returning chide, Doth God exact day-labour, light denied? I fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent That murmur soon replies, God doth not need Either man s work or his own gifts. Who best 10 Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His State Is Kingly: thousands at his bidding speed And post o er Land and Ocean without rest; They also serve who only stand and wait. 3.1 Briefly discuss the literal and figurative meanings of light and spent in line 1. [2] 3.2 What are the two meanings of the word Talent in line 3? [2] 3.3 What is the true account to which Milton refers in line 6? [1] 3.4 Account for the change of tone between the octave and the sestet. [2] 3.5 What realization does the poet come to in the sestet? [2] 3.6 What is the meaning of the word yoke in the context of this poem? [1] 3
QUESTION 4 The world is too much with us - William Wordsworth The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in nature that is ours; W e have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! This sea that bares her bosom to the moon; 5 The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers; For this, for everything, we are out of tune; It moves us not. Great God! I d rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; 10 So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn. 4.1.1 What type of sonnet is this? [1] 4.1.2 Describe one slight deviation in this sonnet with regard to the structure. [1] 4.2 What does the world is too much with us mean? [2] 4.3 Quote the word in the first four lines that indicates the speaker s disgust with man s preoccupation with wealth. [1] 4.4 Name the figure of speech used in line 5, This sea that bares her bosom to the moon. [1] 4.5 It moves us not. (line 9) What is the it to which the poet refers? [1] 4.6 What is the effect of the poet using the pronoun I in the sestet? [1] 4.7 Reference is made to two sea gods in the sestet. Choose one of these and explain his relevance to the poem as a whole. [2] [TOTAL FOR SECTION A: 30] 4
SECTION B - DRAMA (Shakespeare s Macbeth) NB: Question 5 is COMPULSORY. You must then choose ONE mini-essay from this section. QUESTION 5 - CONTEXTUAL (COMPULSORY) Read the extract below and answer the questions that follow: Thanks for that: There the grown serpent lies; the worm that's fled Hath nature that in time will venom breed, 30 No teeth for the present. Get thee gone: to-morrow We'll hear, ourselves, again. Exit Murderer LADY My royal lord, You do not give the cheer: the feast is sold That is not often vouch'd, while 'tis a-making, 'Tis given with welcome: to feed were best at home; From thence the sauce to meat is ceremony; Meeting were bare without it. Sweet remembrancer! Now, good digestion wait on appetite, 40 And health on both! LENNOX May't please your highness sit. The GHOST OF BANQUO enters, and sits in 's place Here had we now our country's honour roof'd, Were the graced person of our Banquo present; Who may I rather challenge for unkindness Than pity for mischance! ROSS His absence, sir, Lays blame upon his promise. Please't your highness To grace us with your royal company. The table's full. 50 LENNOX Where? LENNOX Here, my good lord. What is't that moves your highness? Which of you have done this? Lords What, my good lord? Thou canst not say I did it: never shake Thy gory locks at me. ROSS Gentlemen, rise: his highness is not well. LADY Sit, worthy friends: my lord is often thus, And hath been from his youth: pray you, keep seat; 60 The fit is momentary; upon a thought He will again be well: if much you note him, You shall offend him and extend his passion: Feed, and regard him not. Are you a man? Ay, and a bold one, that dare look on that Which might appal the devil. LADY O proper stuff! This is the very painting of your fear: This is the air-drawn dagger which, you said, Led you to Duncan. O, these flaws and starts, 70 Impostors to true fear, would well become A woman's story at a winter's fire, Authorized by her grandam. Shame itself! Why do you make such faces? When all's done, You look but on a stool. Here is a place reserved, sir. 5
Prithee, see there! behold! look! lo! how say you? Why, what care I? If thou canst nod, speak too. If charnel-houses and our graves must send Those that we bury back, our monuments 80 Shall be the maws of kites. GHOST OF BANQUO vanishes LADY What, quite unmann'd in folly? If I stand here, I saw him. LADY Fie, for shame! ASIDE TO LADY Blood hath been shed ere now, i' the olden time, Ere human statute purged the gentle weal; Ay, and since too, murders have been perform'd Too terrible for the ear: the times have been, That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end; but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, 90 And push us from our stools: this is more strange Than such a murder is. LADY My worthy lord, Your noble friends do lack you. I do forget. Do not muse at me, my most worthy friends, I have a strange infirmity, which is nothing To those that know me. Come, love and health to all; Then I'll sit down. Give me some wine; fill full. I drink to the general joy o' the whole table, 100 And to our dear friend Banquo, whom we miss; Would he were here! to all, and him, we thirst, And all to all. Avaunt! and quit my sight! let the earth hide thee! Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold; Thou hast no speculation in those eyes Which thou dost glare with! LADY Think of this, good peers, But as a thing of custom: 'tis no other; 110 Only it spoils the pleasure of the time. What man dare, I dare: Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, The arm'd rhinoceros, or the Hyrcan tiger; Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves Shall never tremble: or be alive again, And dare me to the desert with thy sword; If trembling I inhabit then, protest me The baby of a girl. Hence, horrible shadow! Unreal mockery, hence! 120 GHOST OF BANQUO vanishes Why, so: being gone, I am a man again. Pray you, sit still. LADY You have displaced the mirth, broke the good meeting, With most admired disorder. Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer's cloud, Without our special wonder? You make me strange Even to the disposition that I owe, When now I think you can behold such sights, And keep the natural ruby of your cheeks, 130 When mine is blanched with fear. ROSS What sights, my lord? Lords Our duties, and the pledge. Re-enter GHOST OF BANQUO 6
5.1 Who are the two characters Macbeth is alluding to in line 29? Quote from the line to confirm each character. (2) 5.2 Macbeth has become aware of a further danger that Fleance poses (apart from the fact that he might one day inherit the crown). What is this danger? (1) 5.3 In this extract, Macbeth enters the world of appearance versus reality by pretending to blame Banquo for not attending the banquet. 5.3.1 What dramatic technique is used here? (1) 5.3.2 Explain your answer in 5.3.1 above. (2) 5.4 No-one other than Macbeth can see the ghost of Banquo. How might the thanes present interpret Macbeth s words in lines 56-57 (Though canst not say I did it: never shake / Thy gory (bloody) locks at me.)? (2) 5.5 Macbeth refers to murders in lines 86 to 92. Whose murders is Macbeth alluding to: 5.5.1 in his aside to Lady Macbeth? (2) 5.5.2 in line 90 ( twenty mortal murders )? (1) 5.5.3 Why can Lady Macbeth be forgiven for thinking that her husband s guilt has so consumed him that he is now exaggerating in line 90? (1) 5.6 Who is the us that Macbeth is referring to in line 91? Motivate your answer from the text. (2) 5.7 Briefly describe how Lady Macbeth tries to salvage the situation. (2) 5.8 Macbeth has proved that he is not a coward. Why then is he overwhelmed by the sight of the ghost? (2) 5.9 Do you believe that the ghost is real or not? Or do you think it is a symbol of Macbeth s guilty conscience? Motivate your choice of answer. (2) /20/ AND 7
QUESTION 6 - MINI-ESSAY (200 250 WORDS) Out, damned spot! out, I say!--one: two: why, then, 'tis time to do't.--hell is murky!--fie, my lord, fie! a soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account? These words are spoken by Lady Macbeth in Act V, Scene 1 (lines 30-34). Trace Lady Macbeth s undoing (of herself) by referring to the above quotation. OR QUESTION 7 - MINI-ESSAY (200 250 WORDS) Characterise the relationship between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. If the main theme of the play of Macbeth is ambition, whose ambition is the driving force of the play Macbeth s, Lady Macbeth s, or both? [TOTAL FOR SECTION B: 30] *NB : QUESTION 5 + QUESTION 6 OR 7 = SECTION B 20 + 10 = 30 TOTAL = 30 + 30 = 60 MARKS 8