This document provides past exam questions from poetry exams on the theme of conflict across multiple years. The questions ask students to compare how two poems present similar themes such as the effects of conflict, feelings of confusion, attitudes about power, the destructive impact of war, how conflict affects feelings about place, presenting points of view, the effects of war, bravery, using language to present strong feelings, and showing attitudes to war. The poems referenced in the questions come from an anthology titled Conflict.

1. Poetry Across
Time
Past Questions

2. 2014
• Question 5 Compare the ways the poets
demonstrate the effects of conflict on people in
‘Extract from Out of the Blue’ (page 35) and in one
other poem from Conflict. [36 marks]
• Question 6 Compare the ways the poets
present feelings of confusion in ‘Come On, Come
Back’ (page 46) and in one other poem from Conflict.
[36 marks]

3. June 2013
• Question 5
• 0 5 Compare the ways the poets present ideas
about power in ‘Hawk Roosting’ (page 49)
• and in one other poem from Conflict. (36 marks)
• OR
• Question 6
• 0 6 Compare the ways the poets present the
destructive impact of confl ict in ‘The Yellow
• Palm’ (page 37) and in one other poem from
Confl ict. (36 marks)

4. January 2013
• Question 5
• 0 5 Compare the ways poets show how conflict and
war affect feelings about a place in ‘At the Border,
1979’ (page 39) and in one other poem from Conflict.
• (36 marks)
• OR
• Question 6
• 0 6 Compare the methods poets use to present their
points of view in ‘next to of course god america i’ (page
48) and in one other poem from Conflict. (36 marks)

5. June 2012
• Question 5
• Compare how poets present the effects of war in
‘Mametz Wood’ (page 36) and in one
• other poem from Conflict. (36 marks)
• OR
• Question 6
• Compare how poets present bravery in ‘The
Charge of the Light Brigade’ (page 43) and
• in one other poem from Conflict. (36 marks)

6. January 2012
• Question 5
• Compare how poets use language to present
strong feelings in ‘Poppies’ (page 41) and one
other poem from Conflict. (36 marks)
• OR
• Question 6
• Compare how poets show attitudes to war in
‘Futility’ (page 42) and one other poem from
Conflict. (36 marks)