AQA English GCSE/A Level Snapshots

Andrew Forster’s ‘Brothers’: An Analysis- how casual is betrayal?

Saddled with you for the afternoon,me and Paul ambled across the threadbare field to the bus stop, talking over Sheffield Wednesday’s chances in the cup while you skipped beside us in your ridiculous tank top, spouting six year-old views on Rotherham United Suddenly you froze,said you hadn’t any bus fare. I sighed,said you should go [...]

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Simon Armitage’s ‘The Manhunt’: An Analysis-intimacy as painful awe?

After the first phase, after passionate nights and intimate days, only then would he let me trace the frozen river which ran through his face, only then would he let me explore the blown hinge of his lower jaw, and handle and hold the damaged, porcelain collar-bone, and mind and attend the fractured rudder of [...]

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Simon Armitage’s ‘Harmonium’: An Analysis-the scent of lost time?

The Farrand Chapelette was gathering dust in the shadowy porch of Marsden Church. And was due to be bundled off to the skip. Or was mine, for a song, if I wanted it. Sunlight, through stained glass, which day to day could beatify saints and raise the dead, had aged the harmonium’s softwood case and [...]

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Carol Ann Duffy’s Hour: An Analysis-finding the key to a poem?

Reading a poem can challenge you. It can take you away from the certainties associated with your  understanding. and this can be uncomfortable and exasperating. What is the point you may say?Sometimes however, although  students find poetry more difficult than other genres once they ‘tackle’ a poem, they often find the experience very rewarding and the  brevity and intensity of the [...]

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Philip Larkin’s ‘Born Yesterday’: An Analysis-GCSE English AQA.

              Tightly-folded bud, I have wished you something None of the others would: Not the usual stuff About being beautiful, Or running off a spring Of innocence and love – They will all wish you that, And should it prove possible, Well, you’re a lucky girl. But if it [...]

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English GCE, GCSE Revision Bolton, Manchester and Bury.

Sometimes as you approach the Easter holiday break, the texts you studied seem distant memories, and you feel less confident about your knowledge and essay writing. If this is you then an hour or two of English tuition can be just the boost you need to feel far more  confident and in control.   So [...]

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Carol Ann Duffy’s ‘Away and See’: An analysis to feed creative writing!

Today is a day when we may all feel the hint of the ‘away and see’ part of life. Already at 8-30am there is a soft glow of slow sunshine on my lawn and the squirrels are busy at the bird table beating the feathered crew to what remains of yesterday’s food. There is a lifting of [...]

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English Tuition Manchester, Bolton and Bury: GCSE English Descriptive Writing Boost

As Easter approaches students are aware of the nearness of May with the GCSE, A Level and Undergraduate examinations. If you are facing any of these examinations and need a boost of ideas and confidence, then a session or two of English tutoring can lift grades and spirits! It can help greatly just to have [...]

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Mary Coleridge’s The Moment: An Analysis

I am not sure if this is a great poem, I rather think it too abrupt and unfinished to linger on in the mind,  as great poems tend to do.  Yet there is something of  Carol Ann Duffy’s ‘hard and truthful’ about it that communicates unresolved sadness. Nature is used  to frame the question. The stormy [...]

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Dylan Thomas ‘The Hunchback in the Park’: An Analysis

  The hunchback in the park A solitary mister Propped between trees and water From the opening of the garden lock That lets the trees and water enter Until the Sunday sombre bell at dark Dylan Thomas creates a melancholy tableau with his isolated figure, defined in terms of his physical deformity. Where is his [...]

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