AQA NEW anthologies: Moon on the tides,Sunlight on the grass

Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men-How Do we read the ending? A Short Analysis and Tusi Note!

Steinbeck’s final moments of his short novel, Of Mice and Men are both tragic and yet hopeful. The reader recognises that Steinbeck is offering a glimpse of an equal, potential friendship between the two most respected  characters in the novel, George and Slim. This glimpse of hope prevents the close of the novel being utterly bleak and [...]

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GCSE English Literature: A reader’s dilemma?

Studying English Literature for GCSE can sometimes signal the death knell for reading for pleasure. For whilst reading may be regarded as fun, perhaps the detailed analysis of texts  may corrode enthusiasm, particularly when the discipline of analysis seems a chore. Analysis can be regarded as a slow poisoning of the original pleasure!! Many students I have  tutored [...]

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Browning’s ‘My last Duchess’ : An analysis of this AQA poem-revisited.

Yesterday I had the pleasure of exploring this poem in the AQA Anthology, where it is enjoying the attention of today’s students once again. It has a very particular, if slightly unnerving appeal and like Browning’s other murderous monologues, this poem has a theatricality about it that allows the poem to be ‘seen’ and acted [...]

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Carol Ann Duffy’s ‘Text’ from Rapture: An Analysis

Human intimacy can be fraught with misunderstanding and misgiving. We all feel D-R-E-A-D at times! This media age, with its obsession with texting,  has escalated the dread of rejection, and of disappointed love intensely. There are so many ways nowadays to communicate and to be found, that our communication is up for assessment and reassessment [...]

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Carol Ann Duffy Selected Poems: Analysis, Notes, Ideas.

Carol Ann Duffy’s poetry features on many GCSE, A Level and Undergraduate courses. Her poems are some of the most searched for on Google and on Amazon underlining her justifiable and enduring popularity,  as well as the hunger and need students have to find out more about her poems!  Tusitala Expert Tuition has many blogs and [...]

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T S Eliot’s La figlia Che Piange: Baffling the reader for beauty’s sake?

    O quam te memorem virgo…     STAND on the highest pavement of the stair— Lean on a garden urn— Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair— Clasp your flowers to you with a pained surprise— Fling them to the ground and turn         5 With a fugitive resentment in your eyes: But weave, weave [...]

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AQA Carol Ann Duffy’s ‘Hour’ – love’s timely bargaining?

Hour Love’s time’s beggar, but even a single hour bright as a dropped coin, makes love rich. We find an hour together, spend it not on flowers or wine, but the whole of the summer sky and a grass ditch.   For thousands of seconds we kiss; your hair like treasure on the ground; the [...]

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Bolton School Entrance Examination Tip Six: Word pools for essays

Writing an essay or a story under examination conditions can be stressful and mind draining! We can feel as if our words have left us-and fled to some faraway place where we cannot find them, let alone spell them properly! So my tip today is a practical tip. It works just as easily with GCSE [...]

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Private English Tuition: How can you enjoy better marks and grades for your English studies?

Private English Tutoring improves your learning.    It empowers you as it gives you the opportunity to ask any questions you want and to get individual advice and attention for your studies. If you have struggled with English in any way:  perhaps with finding the best writing style to suit your ideas or you would like [...]

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Analysing a novel: Susan Hill’s Strange Meeting.

English students at all levels, but particularly at GCSE, A Level and Undergraduate levels are faced by the challenge of close textual analysis or ‘Practical Criticism’ as it used to be known..fondly !! For it is a blind date in literary terms and used to form the whole basis of A Level paper 3. For [...]

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