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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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Arthur Yap: an afternoon nap
The poem does not have any capital letters. It is a bold poem, critiquing the compelling education system,which disturbs the healthy equation of the child to have time to relax and enjoy. Despite its bold attempt to be a critique of parents, who abuse and exploit their children by imposing impossible rules and academic expectations…
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Pope : from An Essay on Criticism |Analysis |notes
Pope started writing poems as a medium to reveal his emotions and pen down his frustrations against the society and its institutions. Ambitious, he was a very driven writer, choosing his themes to reveal the hidden agendas of the society. He was largely self-educated as he suffered from a spinal deformation. Moreover, he was targeted…
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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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Mark Twain: Huckleberry Finn Chapter Eight – Analysis | Notes
☆☆☆ Chapter Eight ☆☆☆ Huck wakes up. He is too lazy to cook himself any breakfast. While contemplating what is to be done, he hears a big boom 💥. A ferry ⛴ comes up. It is firing cannon over the water, trying to make my carcass come to the top. It was a common local…
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Gillian Clarke: Miracle of St David’s Day. | Analysis |notes |IGCSE
St David is the patron saint of Wales and he is celebrated on the 1 March.To mark the day, Welsh people around the world wear one or both of Wales’s national emblems – a daffodil and a leek. Special concerts and parades are also held in St David’s honour, although this year celebration’s will be…
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Twelfth Night: Viola | notes| Analysis | IGCSE |CIE
Viola: Viola is first met in the second scene of the first act. Viola suggests that appearances are often deceptive. Her awareness that one may appear to be other than what one really is. It spurs her on to ask the Captain to assist her to ‘conceal me what I am’ (1.2.50), and this decision…
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Othello : Notes| Analysis
Othello affects the audience because of its outstanding differences. At the emotional center of the play, the vortex of its web, are some of the most inflammatory issues confronting miscegenation—a black man marrying a white woman; adultery—openly incensing Othello yet based upon Iago’s tissue of flimsy clues; violence— directed toward both women and men; sexuality/desire—narrated…
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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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