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How do I collate relevant quotations to help in my essay writing?

AQA specifies that AO1 requires your ability to maintain a critical style and to employ textual references and quotations to support your essay. As an integral skill in this study, it is important to find...

NR
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How do I go about analysing a poem?

The first thing I would do is ask - what makes a poem special, what makes it different from other forms of creative writing? I seek to guide the student towards the importance of each word in the text, co...

SS
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Discuss the key themes presented in W.H. Auden’s poem ‘Musee des Beaux Arts’

Musee des Beaux Arts employs a form of ekphrasis in order to illuminate and critique the policy of appeasement adopted by Britain and France in the late 1930s. Auden describes Pieter Brueghel the Elder’s ...

JB
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How do I analyse poetry?

At first glance, reading poetry can be daunting and analysing poetry can be difficult, I like to think of a poem as a tight knot, which, as a reader, you have to slowly pick apart and untangle. Below I ha...

HO
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A 'circus'. How far is this term applicable to 'Waiting for Godot"?

The circus is a valid comparison to Godot as the entertainer can suspend time in order to create a world focused on nonsensical antics, uncharacteristic of the real world. Although Godot

SA
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