Category: Hawthorne
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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…
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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…
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Aminatta Forna: Haywards Heath | notes | Analysis
Aminatta Forna: Aminatta Forna is a British-Sierra Leonean writer, born on September 18, 1964, in Glasgow, Scotland. Her father was a Sierra Leonean doctor, and her mother was Scottish. Forna spent her early childhood in Sierra Leone but was forced to flee to the UK with her family due to the civil war in the…
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Emily Dickinson: After great pain, a formal feeling comes… | notes| Analysis | poems | devices
After great pain, a formal feeling comes- Written in 1862, this poem dissects the bouts of anxiety and sadness which Emily has been facing. The most crucial and – though she could not know it – historically eventful year in Emily Dickinson’s life was 1862. She was undergoing an emotional disturbance of such magnitude that…
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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…
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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:…
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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…
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Rukeyser: who in One lifetime
The poem is a shoutout about those who suffer and who undergo problems dealing with their emotions. They find it hard to silence their increasing agonies for they grow till they overwhelm the individual. Composed of two distinct stanzas – the first one is an octave while the second stanza is a sextet. The rhyming…
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Emily Dickinson: Wild Nights | Analysis |Notes
Wild nights:It is a poem based on passion; the desire to reveal what SHE cannot reveal for she will be shamed in her society. Emily Dickinson belonged to an elite family. Born in Amherst, Massachuasetts, she was the daughter of a successful lawyer, and Congressional Member, namely Edward Dickinson. Her grandfather had founded the Amherst…
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Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid’s Tale |themes| notes|analysis
The Handmaid’s tale: written in 1984. reveals how the freedom of women is badly seen by some categories of men, politicians, women and the society at large. why women cannot be given equal opportunities as men. 1980s was about an explosion in rights for women, fashion statements made, women in politics, the culminating environmental disasters…
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Ashoke Ganguli- The Namesake | Characterisation |Analysis |notes|past exam questions |CIE| IGCSE
Explore how Lahiri makes Ashoke an intriguing character. Explore: in what ways In what ways: stylistic devices.Stylistic devices are:SettingCharacterisationToneNarrative voiceHyperbole- exaggeration Intriguing: appealing/ interesting Ashoke is intriguing as he triggers confusion in the mind of the reader. As a reader, one keeps asking oneself what does Ashoke want from life; why is he always alone;…
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