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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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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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The Merchant of Venice: Characterisation |Analysis |notes|Shylock
Characterisation : To what extent are the characters in Shakespeare’s plays, and specifically those in The Merchant of Venice, real people? Some critics argue that dramatic characters, like characters in a novel, are not real but convey only the illusion of people in real life. They lack any existence before the play begins as well…
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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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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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Judith Wright: Australia 1970 | Analysis |Notes |IGCSE
Judith Wright is an Australian poet.She has been called ‘ the conscience of the nation’ as she writes about those topics which disturb the people but they disregard them as investing their attention or money in these issues will lead to financial loss.Hence to keep up the industrial progress, the doom of these entities is…
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Mervyn Morris : Little Boy Crying | Analysis |Notes |O-Levels |songs of ourselves |CIE
The Poet: The Poem: The setting: the poem narrates the reactions of a child, following a slap. The title tells one that a child, who is little – therefore at a tender age, is weeping, trying to show how hurt he feels after being slapped for no good reason. The child is naive and has…
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William Wordsworth: A Complaint. Analysis and notes
Structure: It is an epitath – poem which is usually recited on one’s deathbed. The poem is an epitath of the beloved’s love for the poet. His retribution is about how much she has changed and how deeply he feels that change. Three stanzas of 6 verses- commonly known as sextets. Rhyming scheme is regular…
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WB Yeats: When you are old. |analysis | A-level |notes
In what ways does Yeat examine melancholy in this poem? The poem: When you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep; How many loved your moments of…
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Kazuo Ishiguro: Never let me go – characters |analysis|notes|
‘Characters are influenced by events just as events are shaped by characters.’ (Meyer, 1990: 61) The characters are, therefore crucial,in developing the major concerns of the writer. Characterisation is also an important literary device,which combines the central ideas with the understanding of the reader, becoming indicative that the writer’s main ideas have been clearly transmitted.…
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