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How do the poets Thomas Hardy and T. S. Eliot make use of settings and places to signify their central concerns?

Whilst explaining my response I would highlight the use of the different assessment objectives in my answer, to show where my answer is picking up marks on the mark scheme Settings and places can be used by ...
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Answered by Morwenna S. • English tutor
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How does Virginia Woolf deplore canonic conventions in 'Mrs Dalloway' through the characters of Elizabeth and Clarissa Dalloway?

Top tip: for top marks EMBED quotations directly from the novel throughout your essay, + to make this process easier and approach revision quickly ensure you highlight and use sticky-notes when you first rea...
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'Methinks I see these things with parted eye, when everything seems double'. To what extent does Hermia's statement at the end of Act 4 capture Shakespeare's intentions in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'?

From the very beginning of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' Shakespeare plunges his audience into a 'rare visions' of the intoxicating 'purple wound' of love and the fragments of confusion that ensue from it. Sha...
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Answered by Esther B. • English tutor
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What is the significance of time in Hardy's "At Castle Boterel"?

This poem, consisting of seven stanzas each of five lines (a quintet), comes from Hardy's 1912-13 sequence of poems, which were written to commemorate the death of his first wife, Emma Gifford, in 1912. Hard...
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Answered by Sam L. • English tutor
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How do I improve at close reading?

The key to successfully analysing a piece of writing - whether it's a poem, or a play, or a passage of prose - is to "read" from the large to the small.This means that you should first consider the...
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Answered by Gabriel M. • English tutor
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