This is an Unseen Poetry exam practice question tailored towards GCSE and IGCSE students who are studying on exam boards such as AQA, OCR, Edexcel, Cambridge and WJEC. It can be set in timed conditions (45 minutes) or just used as a general practice for planning and writing.
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To what purpose, April, do you return again?
Beauty is not enough.
You can no longer quiet me with the redness
Of little leaves opening stickily.
I know what I know.
The sun is hot on my neck as I observe
The spikes of the crocus.
The smell of the earth is good.
It is apparent that there is no death.
But what does that signify?
Not only under ground are the brains of men
Eaten by maggots.
Life in itself
Is nothing,
An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs.
It is not enough that yearly, down this hill,
April
Comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.
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