2025 CJC Prelims H2 ELit P1 QP

LITERATURE IN ENGLISH 9539/01 Paper 1: Reading Literature 03 September 2025 3 hours Additional Materials: Set Texts Set texts may be taken into the examination room. They may bear underlining or highlighting. Pages can be flagged with paper clips or by folding the page corners. Page numbers can be highlighted, underlined or marked out with vertical lines. Any other kind of folding or flagging of papers in texts (for example use of sticky notes or tape flags) is not permitted. READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST An answer booklet will be provided with this question paper. You should follow the instructions on the front cover of the answer booklet. If you need additional answer paper ask the invigilator for a continuation booklet. Answer three questions: one from Section A, one from Section B, and one from Section C. You are reminded of the need for good English and clear presentation in your answers. All questions in this paper carry equal marks. This document consists of 8 printed pages. [Turn over Instruction Catholic Junior College JC2 Preliminary Examinations Higher 2

© CJC 2025 9539/01 2 Section A 1 Either (a) Write a critical comparison of the following poems, considering in detail ways in which language, style and form contribute to each poet’s portrayal of separation. A BOATS You and your photographs of boats; that repeated metaphor for departure, or simply the possibility of a voyage? What you cannot tell me you tell me with a vessel and its single passenger, eyes fixed on some skylit conclusion. Set apart and starkly upon a canvas of tractable waves, brought to still by the trigger-click of your camera, like the sound a key makes when it releases the lock. Your heart became that lock; these images how you have always articulated distance, a withdrawal. Darling, there are just as many ways of saying goodbye as there are ways of letting you go. The boat is narrow like the width of my heart after impossible loss, cruel resignation; this heart you ride in. Love, if this is how you choose to leave me let me let you. Cyril Wong (Published 2007) 5 10 15 20

© CJC 2025 9539/01 3 B LOVE, WE MUST PART NOW Love, we must part now: do not let it be Calamitous and bitter. In the past There has been too much moonlight and self-pity: Let us have done with it: for now at last Never has sun more boldly paced the sky, Never were hearts more eager to be free, To kick down worlds,