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

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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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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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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Private English tutoring in Bolton, Manchester and Bury: Katherine Mansfield’s At The Bay.

I was walking Frankie,  one of my dogs today and met a grandfather out with his brightly adorned grandaughter, who spotting ‘Frankie’ on her lead, held up her string-gloved hands and told Frankie: ‘Did you know my thumbs fit?’  I am not sure Frankie did know very much about the thumbs, but she had the [...]

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Private English Tuition Bolton and Manchester: Why reading Dickens helps writing.

‘ Why is reading so important?’ This question needs a direct answer as it is one of the most important activities any human being, let alone ‘student’  can enjoy. Of course I can hear the moans straight away when I say the word ‘enjoy’ as so many students today simply do not read. They do not [...]

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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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