Book Reviews
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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Phoenix Writers’ Group Horwich Bolton: Thursdays 10-12
Phoenix Writers’ Group Horwich, meets every Thursday between 10-12, except during school holidays at Horwich resource centre. Their book entitled Fleeting Moments has just been published and will shortly be available on Amazon and kindle. Anyone interested in joing the grouip can come along and just join in. There is always an exercise and Horwich resource [...]
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Carol Ann Duffy’s Havisham and Dickens’ Great Expectations.
Tusi Notes Carol Ann Duffy’s Havisham and Dickens’ Great Expectations. Carol Ann Duffy is an expert at exploring the uneasy aftermath of love. Both her poetry collections Mean Time and The World’s Wife give representation to the loss of love and the ways in which human beings have to negotiate their crippling sense of romantic [...]
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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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Carol Ann Duffy’s ‘Before You were Mine’: A Tusi Note – Buy it Now!
Tusi Notes Just the ideas you need to be different! ”This tender and elemental love poem to our first and most enduring love, that of the mother and child, is to all intents and purposes, a means for Carol Ann Duffy to reconstruct, even to re-invent a past beyond the first person, ‘I’ narrator. The [...]
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Dickens’ Great Expectations: An analysis at Bolton School.
Tuesday 7th February was Charles Dickens’ 200th birthday. Bolton School, Girls’ Division,celebrated the UK’s most famous novelist’s birthday in style, as all the pupils and the staff, came to school, dressed as a Dickens’ character. The corridors were awash with Ghosts, Miss Havishams, and street urchins. I even had a glimpse of a Barnaby Rudge-not an [...]
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Private English Tutor/Tuition Manchester, Bolton, Bury: Shena Mackay’s The Orchard on Fire: Descriptive Writing at its best!
Unlike so many books that explore the betrayal of friendship and of trust, this book upholds the precious sanctity of love that transcends even death. I can never read this book without knowing that the atheists are wrong, that love does transcend all other petty emotions and delusions, that writers can change our worlds and [...]
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