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As you will know, an essay question on a collection of poems will require at least two poems to be mentioned - it will end up being a more comparative-style essay than GCSEs. Therefore, planning ...

First of all, you need to remember that no one can memorise a whole book, and you are certainly not expected to. 

What you need to do is be tactical about what you learn. What I mean by this is tha...

The structure of a poem is important to understanding its content! This changes from poem to poem but when analysing a piece, you should think about the number of stanzas included, the length of the stanz...

For Emily Dickinson, despite being a subjective “thing of the body”, time is essential to the construction of her poetic worlds. The association of time and temporality with mortal life and transience all...

Neruda creates a hostile atmosphere; through the use of visceral imagery, present when describing the drill to be an "implacable intestine"[1]. The drill is portrayed to be monstrous as the quot...