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In this essay I will be exploring how the theme of the ‘power of humans’ is presented by Percy Bysshe Shelley and Robert Browning in 'My Last Duchess' ...

When given a piece of writing, always look for 'like' or 'as'. If an object, for example, a car is described to be 'like' a snail or 'as' slow as a snail, this is a simile. A simile compares something, to...

Loneliness is a key theme in Steinbeck’s novella, and is explored primarily through the characters’ relations to others, when contrasted against George and Lennie’s friendship, and the discriminative lang...

‘The Flea’ is an erotic poem composed in the Elizabethan period, in the metaphysical style of writing. The sexual, unconventional content in contrast with the traditional iambic meter sets up the poem’s p...

I tend to approach this with the help of what I call the Mamma Mia Mnemonic: 'Cher Found She Really Regretted The Dreadful Film'. Each word within this mnemonic represents a separate core poetic technique...