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The ‘Reading for Meaning’ question paper of the English Literature A2 exam, has a large emphasis on demonstrating wider reading, as well as being able to analyse unseen texts.

A good way to prepare...

Lots of students find planning daunting, or think it's unnecessaryt. In fact, it's the most important part of the essay process. Once you've nailed the steps, you've unlocked the key to controlled, though...

The dead are a central focus for war poetry and the notion of death is trivialised throughout the poems in this anthology. Poems such as 'The Soldier' by Rupert Brooke glorify the dead and display the aft...

This is the contrary poem to "The Little Girl Lost" which was originally in Innocence. It may help you to use that poem as a counterpoint to this one.

William Blake's work originally inte...

AO1 Lear’s peripeteia is one of mental illness and neglect as those around him abandon him as fast as he exiles Cordelia and Kent. This brutality serves as the main arc of the play. AO2 King Lear utilises...