The poem’s central situation
The poem’s central situation
The speaker waits beside a telephone for a new lover to call. Because the phone remains silent, an ordinary household object becomes the centre of her emotional world.
Step-by-step lessons on OCR GCSE English Literature 2.1.15 Dusting the Phone by Jackie Kay. Each one builds up to exam-style questions. Work through your set texts (Shakespeare, the 19th-century novel, the modern text, and the poetry cluster) alongside regular unseen-extract practice, since both components include unseen comparison questions that are usually the most time-pressured.