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From the very beginning of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' Shakespeare plunges his audience into a 'rare visions' of the intoxicating 'purple wound' of love and the fragments of confusion that ensue from it. Sha...

First of all you need to break down the wording of each question and find key words (e.g. in a question asking to discuss the 'unsayable' this is the key word that needs to be addressed) and pick out the one...

This poem, consisting of seven stanzas each of five lines (a quintet), comes from Hardy's 1912-13 sequence of poems, which were written to commemorate the death of his first wife, Emma Gifford, in 1912. Hard...

The first thing you need to do is read the question. For example: ‘Homework has no value. Some students get it done for them; some don’t do it at all. Students should be relaxing in their free time.’ Write a...

The key to successfully analysing a piece of writing - whether it's a poem, or a play, or a passage of prose - is to "read" from the large to the small.This means that you should first consider the...