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Explore Shakespeare's representation of love in "A Midsummer Night's Dream."

A whole range of character relationships and moments from the play able to be discussed here. One method of streamlining a discussion would be to dedicate one or two paragraphs to the more 'negative' moments...
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Answered by Kate C. • English tutor
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Explore how Carol Ann Duffy presents the fragility of love in ‘Betrothal’, and make connections with one or two other poems from your collection.

Duffy also presents the fragility of love through her choice of form. ‘You’ is a Shakespearean sonnet, comprised of four quatrains and a rhyming couplet, which is a traditional poetic choice when presenting ...
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Answered by Chloe T. • English tutor
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What is the effect of personification in poetry?

Personification allows a poet to convey human emotion/ experience in inanimate objects. There are various reasons a poet may do this including visual imagery, sensationalism and tonal effect.
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Answered by Mark W. • English tutor
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In what ways do Owen and Frost make you feel pity for the characters who have suffered disability in their poems?

Owen and Frost both show characters in their poems who have suffered physical injury. Owen’s Disabled is about a teenage soldier who goes to war having lied about his age, and returns disabled, forgotten by ...
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Answered by Francesca P. • English tutor
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In the poem 'About His Person', how does Simon Armitage construct identity?

In his poem 'About His Person', Simon Armitage constructs the identity of the titular 'Person' through describing the objects that surround him. The 'giveaway photograph' in his wallet gives away, so to spea...
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Answered by Michael C. • English tutor
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