Category: andrea Levy
-
Sujata Bhatt: Garlic in War and Peace|poem|Analysis |Notes
In peace they rubbed garlic pasteacross their lower backsbefore they lay together.A slow cleansing – it wassticky, then strangely cool.It was their secret bitetheir strongest aphrodisiac.And they preferred green garlicwith large purple cloves. In war they dabbed garlic pasteover each wound –such endless wincing and endless those white cotton bandages.The stench of pus and garlicfinally…
Shyamini
A Level, a song of forsworn faith, alvi, American, Americanah, andrea Levy, Antigonus, asongofforswornfaith, Atonement, Atwood, benvolio, betrayal, Bhatt, biju, birds, British, business, cader Idris, character, characterisation, Charlotte Mew, Chimamanda, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, , choices, CIE A-Level, cie O-level, Curt, darkness, death, Distant Fields, dracula, E.M.Forster, eels, Emily Dickinson, England, examinations, family, February, flower, Frost, Gambia, glass menagerie, Hamlet, hare, Hood, Howard, Howard’s End, hsc, Ian McEwan, Idris Cader, Ifemelu, IGCSE, IGSCE, imteaz begum, Imtiaz Dharker, Irish, Jackie Kay, James Joyce, jeffers, jew, joy, juliet, June, king lear, kiran desai, Laura, lear, leontes, lighthouse, literary devices, literature, literature, notes, analysis, lust, madness, Margaret Atwood, Mark Twain, marriage, Measure for Measure, memory, Merchant of Venice, misery, Missouri, model answer, moniza, MR James, nature, need, nice, Nigerian, notes, novel, novels, O-Level, oscar Wilde, Othello, parenting, past exams questions, pilgrimage, play, plot, poetic devices, poetic justice, Poetry, Pope, poverty, prisoners, question, Rhian, Rhian Gallagher, Romeo and Juliet, romeoandjuliet, Ruth Pitter, sadness, Saki, sarla, SC, seasons, self, setting, shakespeare, Shylock, slave, slavery, Small Island, society, songs, songs of ourselves, spring, Stephen Spender, structure, techniques, tenessee, Tennessee, the glass Menagerie, the hollow of the three hills, the inheritance of loss, the Merchant of Venice, The Schlegels, the trials of brother Jero, The Winter’s Tale, Thomas Wyatt, trade, Twain, twelfth night, Tybalt, Uncategorized, Venice, vintage, wales, war, water, wellness, wild, William Shakespeare, Williams, Winter’s Tale, Wole Soyinka, woolf, wordpress, Wordsworth, writing, Yeats29 April 1989, A different history, a song of forsworn faith, accolades, afterthought, Aminatta Forna, analysis, andrealevy, Antigonus, Antoinette, anvil, artefact, asongofforswornfaith, assimilation, Atlantic, Bertha, bigotry, birds, Bishop, box, Briony, cavern, chaos, characters, colloquial, comedy, Complaint, culture, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1887, Daniel Cosway, death, Deven, devices, different, discriminate, Dryden, E.M.Forster, eels, Elizabethan, Emily Dickinson, English literature, Eurydice, existence, existentialism, family, far from the Madding Crowd, February, frustration, fun, ghost, Hamartia, happiness, heart-broken, heartbroken, Henry Wilcox, homecoming, Howard’s End, ideas, imteazbegum, in custody, indian, jamaica, jamaican, January, lake, leontes, levy, Maria, maroon, marriage, Merchant of Venice, mew, migration, Mississippi, model answer, Modernism, moniza, music -
Sujata Bhatt: For Nanabhai Bhatt |poem | analysis |notes
In this dream my grandfathercomes to comfort me.He stands apartsilentand in his face I seethe patience of his treeson hot typhoid daysthat promise no rain.His eyesthe colour of a crow’s feather in children’s mud,yet filled with sharp mountain-top light. I’m sure this was the face the true bald man,Gandhiji saw when he confessedabout the Harijan…
Shyamini
A Level, a-levels,, analysis, andrea Levy, anita desai, army, asongofforswornfaith, Atonement, Atwood, betrayal, Bhatt, biju, birds, British, business, cambridge exams, cambridge HSC, character, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Mew, chaucer, Chimamanda, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, , choices, CIE A-Level, cie O-level, Curt, death, devices, Distant Fields, dracula, drama, E.M.Forster, eels, Emily Dickinson, examinations, family, February, flower, forster, Frost, Gambia, Gillian Clarke, glass menagerie, Hamlet, Hannibal, Hawthorne, Hood, Howard, Howard’s End, hsc, Huckleberry Finn, Ian McEwan, Idris Cader, Ifemelu, IGCSE, IGSCE, imteaz begum, Irish, Jackie Kay, Jean Rhys, jeffers, Jim, joy, June, king lear, kiran desai, Laura, lear, leontes, life, light, lighthouse, literary devices, literature, love, lust, M.R. James, madness, Margaret Atwood, Mark Twain, marriage, Measure for Measure, memory, Merchant, Merchant of Venice, Missouri, model answer, moniza alvi, MR James, need, Nigerian, night, novel, oscar Wilde, Othello, past, past papers, pilgrimage, play, plot, Poems, poetic devices, poetic justice, Poetry, Pope, poverty, Preston, prisoners, question, Relationship, Rhian, Rhian Gallagher, Romeo and Juliet, romeoandjuliet, sadness, sarla, sea, seasons, self, setting, short stories, slave, slavery, society, songs, songs of ourselves, spender, spring, Stephen Spender, stories of Ourselves, structure, Sunday, techniques, Tennessee, the glass Menagerie, the hollow of the three hills, the inheritance of loss, the Merchant of Venice, The Schlegels, The warning to the curious, The Winter’s Tale, trade, Twain, twelfth night, Uncategorized, Venice, wales, water, wellness, wide sargasso sea, William Shakespeare, Williams, Winter’s Tale, woolf, Wordsworth, writing, Yeats -
Sujata Bhatt: Eurydice Speaks | poem |Analysis | notes
Orpheus, I tell you I’m not in hell,this place is called Maine.All winter the cold wind burns my face,and I sweat, wading through all this snow.But it’s spring now:sounds of snow melting,water dripping off eaves, flooding crocusesand jack-in-the-pulpits.Pussy willows, cattails, forsythia suddenly awaken junipers tipped with pale new shoots. The wind flings pine cones my…
Shyamini
A Level, analysis, andrea Levy, army, betrayal, biju, Bram Stoker, business, cambridge exams, cambridge HSC, Charles Dickens, chaucer, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, , CIE A-Level, cie O-level, Gambia, Gillian Clarke, glass menagerie, Hannibal, Hawthorne, Huckleberry Finn, Idris Cader, IGCSE, IGSCE, imteaz begum, James Joyce, Jean Rhys, jeffers, joy, justice, king lear, Laura, life, lighthouse, literature, lust, Mark Twain, Measure for Measure, memory, Merchant, Missouri, moniza, moniza alvi, moniza alvi, nature, need, notes, past papers, play, Poems, poetic justice, Poetry, Preston, prisoners, Relationship, sadness, SC, seasons, shakespeare, short stories, slave, slavery, Small Island, songs of ourselves, spender, spring, stories of Ourselves, Sujata Bhatt, Sunday, Tennessee, war, water, wellness, wide sargasso sea, Williams, Wole Soyinka, woolf, wordpress, writing -
Emily Dickinson: A narrow Fellow in the Grass |Analysis
Basics: The poem ‘A narrow Fellow in the Grass’ by Emily Dickinson is a vibrant and introspective exploration of encountering a snake in nature. Dickinson captures the complex emotions and reactions that arise from this encounter. The poem begins with the speaker describing the snake as a ‘narrow Fellow’ that occasionally appears in the grass.…
Shyamini
A Level, Adichie, American, andrea Levy, Antigonus, Atwood, betrayal, Bhatt, birds, business, cambridge exams, character, Charles Dickens, Chimamanda, choices, CIE A-Level, cie O-level, criticism, Curt, E.M.Forster, exams, February, Frost, Gambia, Gillian Clarke, in custody, James Joyce, Jim, joy, literature, notes, analysis -
Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice |Analysis |Notes|Shylock
Shylock: The attitude of the British’s ancestors in Elizabeth’s time towards the Jew in general differed so greatly from our modern tolerance. Legally, he was excluded from England and there is nothing like unacquaintance to foster hatred in general. The race has always, from Jacob’s time, prospered on usury; and the Church backed, if it…
Shyamini
A Level, andrea Levy, army, Atwood, bird, British, cader Idris, cambridge exams, cambridge HSC, Charlotte Mew, chaucer, Chimamanda, CIE A-Level, cie O-level, devices, drama, E.M.Forster, Emily Dickinson, England, examinations, exams, family, forster, Frost, Gillian Clarke, Hannibal, hare, Howard, hsc, Huckleberry Finn, Idris Cader, Ifemelu, imteaz begum, Imtiaz Dharker, in custody, Irish, jeffers, jew, Jim, joy, juliet, Laura, leontes, life, light, lighthouse, literature, literature, notes, analysis, lust, madness, Margaret Atwood, marriage, Merchant, Merchant of Venice, Missouri, model answer, moniza alvi, nature, need, nice, night, notes, novel, O-Level, Oliver Twist, play, plot, Poems, poetic devices, poetic justice, Poetry, Saki, sarla, sea, seasons, setting, short stories -
Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice|introduction |notes|analysis |CIE |IGCSE |Characters
Shakespeare has borrowed the plot of TMof V from this story, spicing it with his own humour 🤣 to end it as a comedy. Yet, the idea of anti-Semitism pervades, as the audience condemns the jew for the inhuman treatment of Ansaldo in the source and Antonio in Shakespeare’s play respectively. For Shakespeare, TMofV is…
Shyamini
a-levels,, andrea Levy, asongofforswornfaith, betrayal, British, cader Idris, cambridge exams, cambridge HSC, character, characterisation, Charles Dickens, Chimamanda, choices, CIE A-Level, cie O-level, criticism, Curt, death, devices, Distant Fields, E.M.Forster, Emily Dickinson, England, examinations, exams, February, Frost, Gambia, glass menagerie, Hannibal, Hawthorne, Hood, hope, Howard’s End, Huckleberry Finn, Ifemelu, IGCSE, imteaz begum, in custody, James Joyce, jeffers, jew, Jim, juliet, king lear, light, lighthouse, literature, literature, notes, analysis, love, Margaret Atwood, memory, Merchant of Venice, Missouri, moniza, moniza alvi, need, nice, Nigerian, night, notes, novel, Oliver Twist, oscar Wilde, Othello, parenting, past, past exams questions, plot, Poems, poetic justice, Pope, poverty, Ruth Pitter, Saki, SC, self, shakespeare, short stories, Shylock, society, songs, spring, structure, the glass Menagerie, The Handmaid’s tale, the hollow of the three hills, the Merchant of Venice, The Schlegels, Thomas Wyatt, twelfth night -
Gillian Clarke ; Sunday |second | notes|analysis| A-levels
Structure: – 5 Sextets with irregular rhyming pattern. Each sextet telling someone’s task or participation in Sunday. – the idea is that Sunday is a special day to care about the house, one’s likes and dislikes as well as to laze around, doing nothing in general but enjoying everything in a carefree manner. Stanza 1:…
Shyamini
A Level, a song of forsworn faith, a-levels,, Adichie, alvi, andrea Levy, Antigonus, asongofforswornfaith, bird, British, business, cader Idris, cambridge exams, cambridge HSC, characterisation, Charlotte Mew, Chimamanda, CIE A-Level, cie O-level, criticism, Curt, darkness, death, devices, Distant Fields, drama, E.M.Forster, Emily Dickinson, examinations, family, forster, Gambia, Gillian Clarke, glass menagerie, Hawthorne, Hood, Howard, Huckleberry Finn, Idris Cader, in custody, jeffers, Jim, joy, juliet, June, justice, lear, light, lighthouse, literary devices, literature, love, madness, Margaret Atwood, Mark Twain, Merchant, misery, Missouri, moniza, moniza alvi, nature, need, night, notes, novel, novels, Oliver Twist, oscar Wilde, parenting, past exams questions, past papers, play, Poems, poetic devices, Poetry, poverty, prisoners, Rhian, Rhian Gallagher, Romeo and Juliet, romeoandjuliet, Ruth Pitter, Saki, sarla, SC, sea, seasons, self, setting, shakespeare, short stories, Shylock, slave, slavery, Small Island, songs, songs of ourselves, spender, spring, Stephen Spender, stories of Ourselves, Sunday, The Handmaid’s tale, the hollow of the three hills, The Schlegels, The Winter’s Tale, Thomas Wyatt, twelfth night, Tybalt, Uncategorized, Venice, vintage, war, wellness, wild, William Shakespeare, Williams, Winter’s Tale, Wole Soyinka, woolf, wordpress, Wordsworth, writing, Yeats -
Chaucer: The Prologue to Canterbury Tales |notes| some ideas| A-levels
The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer: Canterbury is a town, that hosts the Canterbury Cathedral, which is proclaimed to have curative powers. – Curative as in healing someone physically as well as mentally. The Canterbury Church ⛪ is known to be miraculous as many people’s prayers and wishes have been realised there. – Thus, it has…
Shyamini
a-levels,, analysis, andrea Levy, betrayal, bird, business, cambridge exams, chaucer, CIE A-Level, cie O-level, criticism, darkness, death, devices, eels, England, examinations, exams, Gillian Clarke, glass menagerie, Hawthorne, hope, Howard’s End, Idris Cader, Ifemelu, IGCSE, in custody, juliet, king lear, Laura, lear, lighthouse, literature, literature, notes, analysis, memory, Merchant of Venice, misery, nature, Nigerian, night, notes, novel, novels, O-Level, oscar Wilde, Othello, parenting, past exams questions, past papers, play, Poems, poetic devices, Poetry, poverty, prisoners, Relationship, Rhian Gallagher -
Jeffers Robinson: The Stars Go Over The Lonely Ocean |Analysis |Notes|A-levels | Songs of Ourselves
Robinson Jeffers is an American poet who is always enthralled about nature and how it encompasses human considerations. Jeffers believes that a human needs to shed his human side/ expectations and experiences to be able to understand the cycle of lufe, nature and death. If the individual remains stuck in his human ups and downs,…
Shyamini
A Level, a song of forsworn faith, Adichie, American, Americanah, analysis, andrea Levy, anita desai, army, asongofforswornfaith, Atwood, bird, British, cambridge exams, cambridge HSC, characterisation, Charles Dickens, Chimamanda, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, , CIE A-Level, darkness, death, Distant Fields, drama, exams, family, Frost, Gillian Clarke, Hannibal, in custody, Irish, James Joyce, jeffers, June, king lear, Laura, literature, notes, analysis, love, lust, madness, Mark Twain, memory, model answer, moniza, moniza alvi, nature, nice, notes, past papers, Poems, poetic devices, Poetry, Pope, poverty, prisoners, question, Rhian Gallagher, romeoandjuliet, Saki, SC, techniques, Tennessee, The Handmaid’s tale, the hollow of the three hills, the trials of brother Jero, The Winter’s Tale, Twain, Tybalt, vintage, water, William Shakespeare, Williams, Wole Soyinka, wordpress, Yeats -
Gillian Clarke: Hare in July | Analysis | Notes | A-levels
STRUCTURE:The poem is composed of 3 septets, each evolving into how the bitch hunts a hare. The I-figure witnesses the eagerness of the bitch to hunt the hare. She is surprised at how the bitch cannot stop herself for this bloodsport. SEPTET 1:Description of how Spring and Summer are spent in the chase. The liveliness…
Shyamini
A Level, Adichie, alvi, American, Americanah, analysis, andrea Levy, army, benvolio, betrayal, bird, birds, cambridge exams, cambridge HSC, characterisation, Charlotte Mew, Chimamanda, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, , CIE A-Level, cie O-level, Curt, death, drama, eels, examinations, family, forster, Gillian Clarke, glass menagerie, Hannibal, hare, hope, Howard’s End, hsc, Idris Cader, IGCSE, Imtiaz Dharker, Irish, James Joyce, joy, June, life, light, literary devices, literature, Mark Twain, memory, misery, model answer, moniza, moniza alvi, moniza alvi, need, nice, Nigerian, notes, novel, O-Level, Oliver Twist, oscar Wilde, Othello, parenting, past, past exams questions, past papers, play, poetic devices, Poetry, poverty, Preston, prisoners, Relationship, Rhian Gallagher, romeoandjuliet, Ruth Pitter, sadness, Saki, sarla, SC, sea, seasons, self, shakespeare, short stories, slave, slavery, Small Island, society, songs, spring, Stephen Spender, stories of Ourselves, structure, Sunday, techniques, tenessee, Tennessee, the glass Menagerie, the hollow of the three hills, Thomas Wyatt, Twain, twelfth night, Tybalt, Uncategorized, vintage, wales, war, wellness, William Shakespeare, Williams, Winter’s Tale, Wole Soyinka, wordpress, Wordsworth, Yeats -
Mark Twain: Chapter Nine of Huckleberry Finn | Notes |Analysis
☆☆☆ Chapter Nine☆☆☆ Huck wants to explore the island further as he knows only the banks of Jackson’s Island. He considers Jackson’s Island as his haven/sanctuary, feeling safe there. He has food,in terms of fish or preys and even wild berries, and he gets fresh water from a nearby stream. Thus, Jackson’s Island is a…
Shyamini
A Level, alvi, American, analysis, andrea Levy, Antigonus, army, asongofforswornfaith, benvolio, bird, characterisation, Chimamanda, choices, cie O-level, darkness, death, devices, drama, eels, exams, family, forster, Frost, Gillian Clarke, glass menagerie, Hannibal, Hood, hope, Howard, Howard’s End, hsc, Huckleberry Finn, Ifemelu, IGCSE, imteaz begum, Imtiaz Dharker, in custody, Irish, joy, juliet, June, king lear, Laura, leontes, life, light, literary devices, love, madness, Mark Twain, Missouri, moniza, moniza alvi, nature, need, notes, novel, novels, O-Level, Oliver Twist, Othello, past, past exams questions, past papers, Poems, Preston, question, Rhian, Rhian Gallagher, Romeo and Juliet, Ruth Pitter, sadness, Saki, SC, sea, seasons, self, shakespeare, short stories, slave, slavery, society, songs, spring, water, wordpress, writing, Yeats