Theme: Society

Question 1

History and Memory in Afghanistan

“One could not count the moons that shimmer on her
roofs, /or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind
her walls.” - Throughout

Answer 1

AO1 - Repetition and motifs
AO2 - Spoken throughout the poem, which is an echoing
reminder of Afghanistan and its cultural achievements and is repeated at instances when the central characters
must keep pushing forward through trauma
AO3 - Saib-E-Tabrizi (the poet) is regarded as one of the greatest masters of a form
of classical Persian lyric poetry. The poem is a love letter to the city of Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan
AO4 - Wuthering Heights has motifs of the afterlife in
different ways to symbolise nearness or distance
from one’s beloved, like how the poem symbolises
the character’s love for Kabul, Afghanistan