by melaniewp | Apr 2, 2013 | Exam Essays, GCSE, IGCSE, Model Essays, Old Age Gets Up, Poetry, Ted Hughes
How does the writer use language to get across the theme of the poem?Old Age Gets UpStirs its ashes and embers, its burnt sticks An eye powdered over, half melted and solid again Ponders Ideas that collapse At the first touch of attention The light at the window, so...
by melaniewp | Mar 30, 2013 | A-Level, Exam Essays, GCSE, IGCSE, Literature, Love, Model Essays, Poetry, Shakespeare, Sonnets
Sonnet 116Let me not to the marriage of true mindsAdmit impediments. Love is not loveWhich alters when it alteration finds,Or bends with the remover to remove:O no! it is an ever-fixed mark (5)That looks on tempests and is never shaken;It is...
by melaniewp | Mar 28, 2013 | Exam Essays, GCSE, IGCSE, Literature, Model Essays, Poetry, The City Planners, The Planners
The Poems analysed are: The City Planners, Margaret Atwood and The Planners, Boey Kim Cheng. These are taken from the IGCSE Cambridge Poetry Anthology, but may be interesting for unseen poetry too.Question SetHow do these poets use language and structure to get across...
by melaniewp | Mar 27, 2013 | Common Entrance, Exam Essays, GCSE, How to Write an Essay, IGCSE, Irregular Poems, Model Essays, Poetry, Regular Poems, Structure, Technical Terms
Here are some examples of how to write about structure in poetry. It can help to think about structure as the architecture of the poem. The architecture of the poem is designed to echo its themes – to highlight certain ideas by pushing them into positions of...
by melaniewp | Mar 26, 2013 | An Inspector Calls, Exam Essays, GCSE, Model Essays
This is an OCR extract question:How does Priestley make this such a dramatic moment in the play?(The extract is the middle of act three, where Eric starts to get hysterical with his mother and the inspector accuses Mrs B of having killed the girl. It’s on pages...
by melaniewp | Mar 26, 2013 | AQA, Cambridge, Exam Essays, GCSE, IGCSE, Model Essays, Poetry, WJEC
Analysis of Hawk Roosting, Ted HughesThis is a dramatic monologue in the character of a hawk. Hughes dramatizes the hawk’s thoughts and attitudes to the majesty of creation, creating a character of self-focussed, god-like arrogance, of brutality and...
