by melaniewp | Jun 12, 2013 | AQA Poetry Anthology, GCSE, Give, Model Essays, Poetry, Simon Armitage
Basic AnalysisA man is begging a woman(?) for love, which she will not give to him. Armitage uses the imagery of homelessness to show he’s lost without her. Then he uses theatrical imagery to get across how far she controls him. He will perform any ordeal for...
by melaniewp | Jun 12, 2013 | AQA, English Language, English Literature, GCSE
Raise your grade in the English Language Exam ENG1HAll resources to help you ace the Higher Tier paper including model answers and examiners’ comments for both the reading and the writing sectionControlled AssessmentsLearn about how controlled...
by melaniewp | Jun 10, 2013 | Angela Carter, Ann Radcliffe, AQA Lit B, AQA Lit B Exam Questions, Frankenstein, Freud, Macbeth, The Gothic, Wuthering Heights
Welcome to the melodramatic, magnificent world of the Gothic! Discover damsels in distress, angry women, humane animals and beastly men, the natural, supernatural and the unnatural. Enjoy transformation, transgression, claustrophobia, madness and explosive...
by melaniewp | Jun 10, 2013 | AQA Lit B, Dracula, Jekyll and Hyde, Lady of Shallott, Mirror, Quotes, Sylvia Plath, Symbolism, The Gothic
All Gothic resourcesMirrors are a key element of the Gothic, symbolising: identity, sense of self, vanity, worldliness, sensuality – or an ethereal, ghostly other-world. For the Lady of Shallott they symbolise her isolation – cursed, she can only see...
by melaniewp | Jun 9, 2013 | Analysis, GCSE, Poetry, Sensory Langauge, Ted Hughes, Wind
This is a lesson I did for a student on how to find examples of sensory language. I’ve already posted on how writers use this here and also how you can use it in your own writing, here. But we needed more detail using a specific example. The poem...
