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Read the poem to yourself twice in your head. The first time, try and get the sense of the narrative of the poem (the story it's telling). You can note down literary techniques (things like onomatopoei...

Antony and Cleopatra's relationship - when considered as a relationship between two individuals - is somewhat harmless. It's signficance in the play and in the time at which it isset, however, magnifie...

While studying a piece of literature, context should never be considered in one isolated paragraph in your essay. Instead, context should always be included every time you make a point. For example, in...

Language focuses specifically on the use of words and devices (such as the use of personification, ceasura, and so on), while the structure is concerned with how the piece of writing develops - not thr...

If you are not accustomed to the language and syntax of Shakespeare, the nature of his plays, sonnets and poems may be difficult to decipher. The first thing is to remember is that Shakespearean langua...