by melaniewp | Jun 8, 2013 | AQA, Flag John Agard, GCSE, IGCSE, Model Essays, Moon on the Tides, Poetry
Flag is tightly regular in its line length, rhyme scheme and in the refrain ‘it’s just a piece of cloth’, which repeats in all but the final stanza. It feels very controlled. This control allows the poet to explore the meaning of the same ‘piece of cloth’, or flag,...
by melaniewp | Jun 7, 2013 | AQA, GCSE, IGCSE, Model Essays, Moon on the Tides, Out of the Blue, Poetry, Simon Armitage
Basic SummaryThis poem is spoken by a trader inside the World Trade Centre (twin towers) on 9/11 moments before the buildings collapse. He seems to be asking us for help, asking whether we can see him. The poem is written as if it’s happening now. The man...
by melaniewp | Jun 5, 2013 | AQA Lit B, IB English, Something Interesting, The Gothic
Horace Walpole’s novel, The Castle of Otranto (1764) is usually described as the first gothic novel. What makes it ‘gothic’? It’s set in medieval Italy with a claustrophobic castle, has a melodramatic plot, long-suffering females and uses...
by melaniewp | Jun 5, 2013 | Uncategorized
Here’s the original story (history) written by Holinshed, that Shakespeare used for Macbeth.Shortlie after happened a strange and vncouth woonder, which afterward was the cause of much trouble in the realme of Scotland, as ye shall after heare.It fortuned as...
by melaniewp | Jun 5, 2013 | An Inspector Calls, Birling, GCSE, IGCSE
Character SummaryArthur Birling is the first character who speaks in An Inspector Calls. He is he first to be investigated or accused by the Inspector and is the first to be mentioned in the stage directions [a prosperous manufacturer].In Birling, Priestly has...
