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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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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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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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Stephen Spender: Air Raid |Analysis |Notes
In 1941, Spender writes the stark poem Air Raid, for February’s Horizon. It is a snapshot of the thousands ruined civilian homes in London. In that same year, the British capital was beginning to feel the savagery of the German bombing campaign, which had shifted from military to indiscriminate civilian targets. Stanza 1: The poems…
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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: Orsino | Analysis | Notes | O-Levels
He is self-brooding. He is usually absorbed in his own sets of feelings and ideas. A critic calls him ‘is the wellborn lover, a disappointed Romeo, elegant and charming but beclouded with melancholy’. Indeed, Orsino enjoys these facets of his character. He chases Olivia via his messenger as he is too busy to leave his…
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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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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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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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The lady in the looking-glass: a reflection by Virginia Woolf |Analysis |Notes |A-levels |CIE| IGSCE
Analysis of the story, with genuine notes
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