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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…
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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: analysis of Haywards Heath |notes
Haywards Heath by Aminatta Forna is a poignant and introspective short story that explores the complexities of memory, aging, and relationships. Through Attila’s character and his interactions with Rosie, the story delves into the themes of nostalgia, love, loss, and mortality, leaving the reader with a sense of melancholy and reflection on the fragility of…
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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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Bram Stoker: Dracula | notes
JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL The impression I had was that we were leaving the West and entering the East; – Jonathan shares about his train journey to Buda-Pesth, which is strange but beautiful for him. He is no longer in his spectrum, changing cultures and ways of getting about. The food impels him to ask for…
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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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Mark Twain: Huckleberry Finn | Chapter 16|Analysis |notes|
Chapter 16:As he lives on the banks of the Mississippi, Twain wants to share his knowledge about the water vessels and their diversity. -There was a power of style about her. : shows how the dimensions and the look of a raft can impress the connoisseurs. Cairo is their dreamland;where both will be safe and…
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Shakespeare: King Lear | Act 2,Sc 1 upto line 26|Analysis |notes
Act 2, Sc 1: Opening with Edmund meeting Curan. Curan shares news about Regan visiting Gloucester, with her husband, the Duke of Cornwall. Edmund is astonished as he does not expect guests on that day. He is bound to strategise ways of making Edgar look like a villain to Gloucester. Curan further informs him about…
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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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Othello: Desdemona | Characterisation | Analysis | notes
Daughter of Brabantio- high birth and respected for her lineage. Beautiful and educated: she represents the noble class women, who are offered the possibility to study and enhance their skills through tutors. seen as a prized bride for suitors who want to gain power and social importance, like Roderigo. He claims to love ❤ Desdemona…
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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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