Component 2: Exploring poetry and Shakespeare

Compare how the poets present memory and family in 'Inheritance' (below) and in one poem from your anthology cluster. Inheritance (written for this paper) They gave me my grandfather's watch in a box that smelled of his drawer: peppermints, pipe smoke, Sunday. It had stopped at ten past four. I wound it once and it ticked — a small, insistent heart — then slowed, and caught, and stuttered, and would not start. I keep it on my desk. It tells the wrong time twice a day and the right one never: the hour he put it down, and went away.

Explore how another poem in your anthology cluster presents strong feelings about a person or place.

Macbeth Starting with the moment in Act 1 Scene 5 when Lady Macbeth reads her husband's letter, explore how Shakespeare presents Lady Macbeth as a powerful woman. Write about how she is presented at this moment and in the play as a whole.