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 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 4, 2013 | AQA, Carol Ann Duffy, GCSE, Medusa, Model Essays, Moon on the Tides, OCR, Poetry
In ‘Medusa’, Carol Ann Duffy creates a personification of jealousy that flickers from mythical re-imagining, through metaphor to a vividly specific instance of ‘Love gone bad.’ The language of the first person narrator is violent, mixing...
by melaniewp | Jun 4, 2013 | AQA, Edexcel Language Anthology, GCSE, IGCSE, Model Essays, My Last Duchess, Poetry, Robert Browning
How does the writer present the character of the Duke?+ get an example of creative writing based on ‘My Last Duchess’ (GCSE creative writing controlled assessment) hereThe Duke narrates this dramatic monologue, whose topic seems at first to be his antique...
by melaniewp | Jun 3, 2013 | GCSE, IGCSE, Model Essays, Shakespeare, Sonnets
A* Model Essays+ Sonnet 116 Analysis Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds (900 words)+ Sonnet 129 Analysis The Expense of Spirit in a Waste of Shame and Sonnet 147 My Love is Like a Fever (1,500 words)Original Sonnet plus...
