The exam explores love in literature through Shakespeare and poetry. Section A analyzes extracts from Othello, The Taming of the Shrew, Measure for Measure, and The Winter’s Tale, examining themes such as love’s complexity, manipulation, and idealization, alongside Shakespeare’s methods in presenting relationships. Section B focuses on pre-1900 and post-1900 poetry, analyzing Wyatt’s Who so list to hount and Jennings’s One Flesh, addressing themes of desire, power dynamics, connection, and detachment in love. Tasks emphasize critical analysis of language, structure, and form, alongside contextual exploration and thematic interpretation of diverse representations of love.