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Structure says a lot about the poets intentions of the poem, and how they wished the poem to be read. 

Short, sharp lines, with long continuous stanzas suggest a pace to the poem. Whereas longer li...

AQA specifies that AO1 requires your ability to maintain a critical style and to employ textual references and quotations to support your essay. As an integral skill in this study, it is important to find...

At first glance, reading poetry can be daunting and analysing poetry can be difficult, I like to think of a poem as a tight knot, which, as a reader, you have to slowly pick apart and untangle. Below I ha...

Analysing a quote can be done in a number of ways and is often a key part of essay writing. My school taught me to use the PEEL approach but there are many other variants of this which you may have learnt...

Example Introduction: In his poetry, Philip Larkin is typically cynical of religion, displayed particularly in ‘Water’ and ‘Faith Healing’. As a strict atheist, Larkin consistently devalu...