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How do you go about interpreting a poem?

The easiest way to interpret poetry is to organise it into distinct areas. These could include: poem type, rhyme, imagery, punctuation, and context.  For the poem type, you would need to identify some key...

ET
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Discuss the role of women in Hamlet.

Despite it being frequently argued that the women in Hamlet are “drawn in fainter lines than their male counterparts,” it appears that upon closer inspection their roles are much more integral to...

IA
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How should I begin to analyse an unseen poem?

Firstly, read the question carefully, highlighting any key words i.e  'power' or 'nature' if it is thematic or ' structure' or 'metaphor' if it is technical, to keep in mind when reading the poem.
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IF
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How do you choose quotations, and how do you use them in a paragraph?

Mainly AQA Specification

A01 is a crucial part of the marking scheme so it is important that you come to grips with it effectively. It looks at your ability to critically use textual referen...

SD
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“God was the omniscient author, but he died: now no one knows the plot…” (Ronald Sukenick) (1969). Explore how Robert Lowell's Skunk Hour supports or challenges this view of post-war American literature.

In his 1969 essay The Death of the Novel, Brooklyn writer Ronald Sukenick declared God to be dead, and that “now n...

AC
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