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Generally, context can be split up into different types such as biographical (anything about the author or poet's life which links to the text), historical (events at the...

The theme of loneliness runs throughout the novel, with each character demonstrating loneliness to varying levels. John Steinbeck has illustrated loneliness through the relationships between the main char...

Perhaps the most striking use of poetic device in this poem is the establishment of a strong and distinct poetic voice, which is maintained throughout, allowing the reader to appreciate the speaker's forc...

When I answer essay questions, I always try and stick to a 'rule of three'. This means that the body of the essay (everything between the introduction and the conclusion, where you actually make your case...

At the time Shakespeare was writing, disturbances within nature were often thought to mirror terrible events within the human world and thus when the natural order was disturbed through revolutions or oth...