In ‘Allotment’, how does the poet present the speaker’s feelings about her grandfather?
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AQA GCSE English Literature · Paper 2
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Allotment
In this poem the speaker remembers her grandfather and the allotment where he grew vegetables.
- 1He kept the key on a loop of orange string,
- 2the shed door swollen shut each spring
- 3until his shoulder taught it how to open.
- 4Inside: twine, a radio that only spoke
- 5in weather, seed packets labelled in his capitals
- 6as if the earth might not believe him otherwise.
- 7He never said he loved us. He said dig,
- 8and showed me where the worms were, how to hold
- 9a fork so the blade went in without a fight.
- 10This March I found his gloves still on the nail,
- 11the fingers curled around a shape of nothing,
- 12and stood there while the rain did all the talking.
- 13Now I plant his beans in rows he would call crooked.
- 14They come up anyway, green fists, unasked.
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AQA GCSE English Literature, Paper 2
- 8702/2
- 2 hours 15 minutes
- 96 marks
- Modern texts, the poetry anthology and unseen poetry
2 papers · 160 marks · no tiers. Paper 1 is Shakespeare and the 19th-century novel. Paper 2 is modern texts, the anthology and unseen poetry. Questions here are original practice, not past papers.
Teaches AQA English Language 8700, not Literature 8702: no set texts, anthology poems or unseen poetry.