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The first line of the poem immediately links the two concepts of art and eternity. The urn’s beauty is pristine, virginal. The subject of the poem, a work of sculptured art itself, is the urn. Keats the p...

There's no set number of quotations that you need to know for the exam and, when it comes to learning them, less is definitely more. It's more important to have a small collection of quotations that you c...

In ‘Annabel Lee’ by Edgar Allan Poe, structure is played off against language. A morbid narrative – the death of a young girl, with whom the poet is clearly infatuated – is penned in lines of verse that b...

Compressed and expanded time frames can be used to highlight a wide range of themes within plays. Christopher Marlowe, for example, makes particular use of both the compression and expansion of time in 'D...

When faced with a poem that challenges our very conceptions of what 'the poem' should look like, one should feel excitement as opposed to fear. It need hardly be said that Pound's central Imagist poem is ...