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Begin by reading the poem all the way through. How does it sound in your head? Listen for alliteration, assonance, dissonance. Where is it smooth and where is it jarring? Think about the stresses of the w...

For your AQA English exam, you are assessed on four key categories. Each of these categories is called an ‘Assessment Objective’ - an AO. The first of these AOs, AO1, is to ‘read, understand and respond t...

Hstorical context: Sonnets (meaning 'little song') are love poems which have a very particular form that was popularised by Dante and Petrarch in Italy in the 1300s. The particular poetic form was brought...

To understand the ending of this poem, we should keep in mind that the speaker says he is going to dig with his pen and return to the beginning. In between these first and last stanzas, the pen is never m...

Firstly, the playwright shows the ambition of Macbeth by highlighting the internal conflict that is shown throughout the play. "Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand?"...