{"id":257,"date":"2014-09-17T14:02:02","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T13:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/HomeoftheBrave\/?p=257"},"modified":"2016-01-11T16:43:43","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T15:43:43","slug":"10-marker-sample-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/HomeoftheBrave\/2014\/09\/17\/10-marker-sample-answer\/","title":{"rendered":"10 marker sample answer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Some of you may still be struggling with the ten marker questions at Higher. Below is a reminder of how to complete it with a sample answer. <\/p>\n

First 2 marks \u2013 identify the commonality, the thing that links both the poems you are using. Make it very clear how it is shown in both poems. <\/p>\n

Next 2 marks \u2013 show how this commonality is demonstrated in the poem in front of you. Do this by quoting a relevant section or phrase and then analyse it in detail. <\/p>\n

The remaining 6 marks are best split into 3 lots of 2 marks OR 2 lots of 3 marks. Referring to the other poem you are using, show how it demonstrates the commonality by quoting a relevant section or phrase and then analyse it in detail. The amount of detail in your analysis will determine whether you get 3 or 2 marks in this section. <\/p>\n

In this poem, Paterson uses an apparently ordinary experience to explore a deeper truth about humanity. By referring to this and another poem or poems by Don Paterson you have studied discuss how he uses poetry to explore the deeper truths behind ordinary experience.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Ferryman\u2019s Arms and Nil Nil are two poems by Don Paterson. Each of them take an apparently everyday event and turn it into a deeper look at our lives. The Ferryman\u2019s Arms would appear to be about a man waiting in an island pub for the Ferry that will fetch him home, however a deeper reading of the text reveals that it could actually be about dying. A similar truth is revealed in Nil Nil when Paterson suggests that everything will fade to nothing through the tale of a declining football team and a devastating spitfire crash during WW2. Both poems then could be read as teaching us about death or nothingness.
\n\tIn The Ferryman\u2019s Arms there is a clear reference to death when Paterson writes about being drawn to the pool room \u201clike a moth\u201d. This simile is effective on two levels. First of all he is comparing himself to a moth and the pool room to a light. This suggests that he can\u2019t help himself in finding something to fill ten minutes. On a deeper reading though, the poem has multiple references to Greek mythology and we see that here as a moth represents the soul and we could read it as his soul being taken somewhere. There is another idea of death here as well as the moth is being \u2018pulled towards the light\u2019 just like the western euphemism for death.
\n\tIn Nil Nil there is an idea of nothingness or death introduced straight away in the phrase \u201cplague of grey bonnets\u201d. Here Paterson has used a metaphor and word choice to shape his idea. The \u201cplague\u201d of grey bonnets is the spectators\u2019 hats but the word \u201cplague\u201d suggests they are a disease which will eradicate the football. There are connotations of a \u201cplague of locusts\u201d which leave nothing behind when finished. The colour \u201cgrey\u201d is also nondescript again hinting at the nothingness to come.
\n\tAt the end of Nil Nil there is a definite image of nothingness or death as the speaker addresses us directly in the phrases \u201cfailing light,\u201d the trail that \u201csteadily fades\u201d and eventually \u201cnirvana\u201d and \u201cthe plot thinning down to a point so thin not even angels can dance on it\u201d. Paterson carefully selects specific words here to hint at the nothingness. \u201cfailing\u201d tells us that the light is no longer there, that it is dying out. \u201csteadily\u201d again repeats this idea that it is definitely declining into nothing. Nirvana is the state of non-being, it is a passive nothingness. The final image shows us that there is nothing left of the story as not even the delicate angels are able to do anything on it as it no longer exists. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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