Category: Saki
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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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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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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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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…
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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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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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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,…
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