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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: 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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The Merchant of Venice: Stage Conventions | notes |devices
Stage Conventions: Like his fellow dramatists, Shakespeare used a number of stage conventions, or artificial dramatic devices, to develop his plots. Perhaps the most difficult Elizabethan stage convention for modern audiences to grasp is what is called impenetrable disguise. When Portia appears as Dr. Balthazar in 4.1, neither her husband, Bassanio, nor anyone else recognizes…
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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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Edna St Vincent Millay: The Buck in the snow. | Analysis | Notes| A-Levels | O-levels
Edna St. Vincent Millay is an American poet and dramatist who is known to have personified romantic rebellion and bravado in the 1920s. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Edna-St-Vincent-Millay Millay has been experimenting with social and emotional themes, which she has staged in her texts. Her audience is used to her modernist perspective of those concerns which captivate her attention.…
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Stephen Spender: A first war childhood | Analysis |notes
Spender remembers his childhood during the First World War. Born in 1909, he was around 7 yrs when that incident or memory occurs. The poem presents a childish representation of how the war is- for it is seen from the eyes of a child. Some ideas: To recover from Violet Spender’s incessant and harrowing childbearing,…
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Stability by Philip K Dick | analysis| notes|
The author: Philip K Dick is renowned for his inclination for Science fiction. Dick’s central concern is that the reality varies from what it is and how it must be understood. Some ideas: Progress and regression come together. When there is progress, there is the danger of regression. If there is neither, the world is…
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Howard’s End: The Schlegel Sisters. Analysis |Notes.
The Schlegels are half-German (their father emigrated from Germany). But the Wilcoxes are thoroughly English. The Schlegels are more independent and cosmopolitan in outlook, while the Wilcoxes are more narrow-minded and conservative. The Schelgels attend concerts and informal dinner-parties, but the Wilcoxes show little interest in casual conservation and culture. Superficially, Margaret and Helen Schlegel…
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Analysis of ‘A Soldier’. | CIE|HSC|SC|Notes|past exams
The poem: He is that fallen lance that lies as hurled, That lies unlifted now, come dew, come rust, But still lies pointed as it plowed the dust. If we who sight along it round the world, See nothing worthy to have been its mark, It is because like men we look too near, Forgetting…
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Death and the king’s horseman: Wole Soyinka|some notes|ideas|analysis |a-level |CIE |IGCSE
Some thoughts: In terms of form and craft, and of language and ideas, Soyinka is at his most resourceful and most vigorous in this dark, brooding play. Within the logic of this imperative, an historic event, a widespread socioeconomic trend, or worldhistorical forces which engender massive individual and collective crises of conscience find Soyinka responding…
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The Knight’s Tale: Chaucer. Genre|notes|analysis |CIE |IGCSE| A-Levels
The Knight’s Tale is a romance. It examines love which is fuelled by honour, as for the Knight, love subsists on honour and only the valiant emerges as the real lover. Romance,as a genre, is a fictional story in verse or prose which unrealistically develops improbable adventures of the idealised characters it has. Chaucer, though…
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