Observation

Many candidates attempted this question. However, candidates could not show how diction portrays reconciliation in the poem

Candidates were expected to discuss the following points:

• References to “the anvil”, “hammer” and “forge”- images of smithing.
• The suggestion that the new culture is "laced on", therefore there is no fusion.
• The longing for the old traditional culture in the expression, "sew the old days for us".
• The realisation that the accommodation has been painful.