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The structure of a poem is important to understanding its content! This changes from poem to poem but when analysing a piece, you should think about the number of stanzas included, the length of the stanz...

For Emily Dickinson, despite being a subjective “thing of the body”, time is essential to the construction of her poetic worlds. The association of time and temporality with mortal life and transience all...

Neruda creates a hostile atmosphere; through the use of visceral imagery, present when describing the drill to be an "implacable intestine"[1]. The drill is portrayed to be monstrous as the quot...

The use of critics in your essays is one of the biggest step-ups from GCSE to A-Level, and is often what fazes students the most. In terms of actually finding criticism, you should make use of yo...

One very simple way to structure essays at A-Level and GCSE is to follow the same pattern so that you don't get confused, or end up waffling. I always start with an introduction, pick out three or four ma...