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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...

'Visible history' is a difficult term to unpack. For the most part, this is because of the term 'history' and the various ways it is interpreted as a concept and as something that we engage with. What is ...

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...

The first thing I would do is ask - what makes a poem special, what makes it different from other forms of creative writing? I seek to guide the student towards the importance of each word in the text, co...

Musee des Beaux Arts employs a form of ekphrasis in order to illuminate and critique the policy of appeasement adopted by Britain and France in the late 1930s. Auden describes Pieter Brueghel the Elder’s ...