by melaniewp | Jun 5, 2013 | GCSE, GCSE English Literature, How to Compare, How to Write an Essay, Poetry
Help! Your teacher’s just told you to write a comparison between two or three poems, but you don’t know how…Don’t panic! Just follow these simple steps: first, figure out what’s the same and what’s different. This is where a...
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 | May 16, 2013 | Kid, Model Essays, Poetry, Simon Armitage, True North, Unseen Poetry
Basic SummaryIn this poem, a character who seems to identify himself with ‘Robin’ from Batman is talking, fast, about his relationship with ‘Batman’. You can read this as a metaphor. So Robin is the son figure, Batman the father or boss figure....
by melaniewp | May 7, 2013 | Exam Essays, GCSE, Model Essays, OCR, Poetry, Simon Armitage, To Poverty
Basic SummaryThis poem is spoken by the poet (perhaps) to ‘poverty’, as if poverty is a person. He seems to have a mixed relationship with it. They go back a long way. The poet speaks in a controlling way at the end, where he commands poverty to come close...
by melaniewp | May 7, 2013 | Exam Essays, GCSE, Poetry, Simon Armitage
Basic AnalysisThis is a poem about murder. A man is telling us about an incident when someone, possibly a relative or friend, came to stay unexpectedly. The man who comes to stay, who is never named, is having a mental breakdown. Then he starts to annoy his host (the...
