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Pablo Neruda: Too many Names- a tusi bite.

Saturday, December 3rd, 2011

Pablo Neruda’s poem embraces the suffering endured by human beings because they choose to differentiate themselves so keenly and resolutely from one another. The I/thou relationship so fraught with misunderstanding, isolates the self, weighting the ‘I’ with the unbearable burden of being. Yet ‘all of us are dust and sand.’ We have lost our [...]

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Philip Larkin ‘Wants’: A an analysis

Monday, November 21st, 2011

Beyond all this, the wish to be alone: However the sky grows dark with invitation-cards However we follow the printed directions of sex However the family is photographed under the flagstaff— Beyond all this, the wish to be alone. Beneath it all, desire of oblivion runs: Despite the artful tensions of the calendar, The life [...]

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Louis Macneice’s The Sunlight on the Garden: Accepting life’s simple pleasures. :

Monday, November 14th, 2011

I read this poem just now and found myself listening to its sounds : rather like the pulse of a human heart or the ticking of a clock in the corner of life’s room. I almost feel like I am holding someone’s wrist and counting out each pulse, each possibly diminishing breath. How easeful and affecting [...]

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The Magi by W B Yeats: The Endless dissatisfaction of Desire?

Friday, November 4th, 2011

Now as at all times I can see in the mind’s eye, In their stiff, painted clothes, the pale unsatisfied ones Appear and disappear in the blue depth of the sky With all their ancient faces like rain-beaten stones, And all their helms of silver hovering side by side, And all their eyes still fixed, [...]

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Jeanette Winterson’s Rapturous visit to Manchester’s Royal Exchange!

Thursday, November 3rd, 2011

Jeanette Winterson’s reading of her new book, Why be happy when you could be normal? at the Royal Exchange on Sunday 30th October was wonderful in the most real sense of the word. She read parts of her autobiography almost in a trance like, dancing way, as if the words had come back to her from [...]

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Excel in English: Are you performing at cause or at effect?

Saturday, October 29th, 2011

One of the most useful and practical techniques advocated by NLP involves taking responsibility for your life and behaviour at cause rather than at effect. Jimmy Petruzzi’s new book about NLP is a very clear and inspiring discussion of NLP techniques to maximise your performance in all areas of your life. Even though there are [...]

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Private English Tuition Manchester/Bolton/Bury: The scent of a good story

Tuesday, October 25th, 2011

I love devouring anecdotes and ‘bits’ of real stories as they feed into all sorts of experiences and writings. Serge Lutens creates wonderful perfumes and the ‘genesis’ tale of his Borneo 1834 perfume made me rush out and buy both patchouli and dark chocolate scent in order to try to recreate it. ( At a fraction [...]

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Bolton School Entrance Examination Tip Six: Word pools for essays

Tuesday, October 25th, 2011

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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Tusi-bites: Henry V and the rule of three by Janet Lewison

Sunday, October 23rd, 2011

”We few, We happy few, We band of brothers.” Agincourt beckons and Shakespeare’s King Henry V is trying to rally a beleagured English army before they they face the French who outnumber them. This line is very famous for its patriotic sentiments and potency. Olivier’s film in 1944 was used for propaganda to lift the British [...]

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Charles Dickens’ Masterclass on place in A Tale of Two Cities.

Tuesday, October 18th, 2011

”Such a staircase, with its accessories, in the older and more crowded parts of Paris, would be bad enough now; but, at that time, it was vile indeed to unaccustomed and unhardened senses. Every little habitation within the great foul nest of one high building–that is to say, the room or rooms within every door [...]

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