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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: 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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H.G.WELLS : The Door in the wall. |Analysis |notes|A Levels|CIE |Past exams questions
Basics: ‘The Door in the Wall’ is a short story written by H.G. Wells, first published in 1911. It explores themes of escapism, the search for meaning and fulfillment, and the conflict between societal expectations and personal desires. The story revolves around a successful politician named Lionel Wallace, who recounts his experiences as a child.…
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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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Bram Stoker: Dracula
Abraham Stoker was born in Dublin in 1847 to William Stoker, a civil servant at Dublin Castle, and Charlotte Stoker, a social crusader. By his own account, he was an invalid in early childhood, unable to walk until the age of seven, although in later life he never explained what his illness had been. He…
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Emily Dickinson: An awful Tempest mashed the air | notes| device |analysis
An awful Tempest mashed the air – Dickinson digs into her angst. She faces her inner turmoil, doing her best to understand what are the changes- they agonise her. Stanza 1: a quatrain. Rhyming pattern : abcbTone: grieving about her loss of peace.Atmosphere: gloomy An awful Tempest mashed the air –The clouds were gaunt, and…
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Emily Dickinson: A murmur in the trees |Analysis |notes |notes
A murmur in the trees : the murmur travels among the trees. The trees are talking/ murmuring among themselves. Only the one who is perceptive and very observant can notice this ethereal conversation happening among the trees.Hence, the poet remains there, looking and understanding the exchanges in nature, among its entities. The murmur is transcendental…
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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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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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