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With Seamus Heaney’s very recent passing, I have been rereading some of my favourite Seamus Heaney’s poems and this poem about the death of his little brother remains one of… Read More »Seamus Heaney’s Mid-Term Break: Analysis Revisited.
Woolf’s claim that this is a new kind of novel is spot on, for it does not adhere to any of the standard rules of the genre. The opening… Read More »Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse: Review and Analysis by Pam Hunter.
“Her father had taught her about hands. About a dog’s paws. Whenever her father was alone with a dog in a house he would lean over and smell the skin… Read More »The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje: Analyisis-The Tenderness and Curiosity of Scent!
This is a discussion sheet I wrote a few years ago and updated for students at university studying Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw. It gives you a good… Read More »The Turn of the Screw by Henry James: Analysis and worksheet (Private English Tuition Bolton)
The child was provided for, but the new arrangement was inevitably confounding to a young intelligence intensely aware that something had happened which must matter a good deal and looking… Read More »What Maisie Knew by Henry James:Analysis- Claustrophobia and Curiosity!
‘Could you eat any bread and meat?’ said Dick, taking down his hat. ‘Yes? Ah! I thought so. Did you ever taste beer?’ ‘I had a sip of it… Read More »The Old Curiosity Shop by Dickens Analysis : The Healing Power of Compassionate Curiosity-Dick Swiveller and the Marchioness!
Down the Rabbit-Hole Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped… Read More »Private English Tutor/Tuition Bolton Manchester: Alice in Wonderland and the Value of Curiosity!
Her watch seemed peculiar. Red and gold: too loud for elegance yet irresistible too. Bella heard its deliberate, teasing ticking even though it appeared a very tiny and elegant gold… Read More »English Tuition Bolton Manchester: Creative Writing- The Anti Clockwise Tale FIVE!
Somehow Mr Groves with his pale, certain face made Daniel fall in love with the world’s past. Always Daniel would tell everyone at home, with a story. A regular tale… Read More »Private English Tuition/Tutor Bolton Manchester and Bury: The Anticlockwise Tale FOUR
Who would want to settle for less than BRILLIANCE in the opening of a story? The WOW factor must be there… Call it magic, call it strangeness call it quite… Read More »Private English Tutor/Tuition Bolton Manchester: Carson McCullers’ Master Class-The Member of the Wedding.
A team arrived with special coats and lots of cases. I felt the wrong shape myself, sat here watching a human reshaped again because someone had wanted something to remember… Read More »English Tuition/Tutoring Manchester, Bolton and Bury: Creative Writing-The AntiClockwise Tale Part Three
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[On the Aims of Poetry: Letter to J. H. Reynolds, 3 February 1818] Hampstead Tuesday. [ . . . ] We hate poetry that has a palpable design upon… Read More »English tutor/tuition Manchester, Bolton and Bury: Carson McCullers’ The Ballad of the Sad Cafe Analysis or Reflection!
Amber again. Where the amber melts, the prison houses of the past give up their dead. Are we ready to face our predecessors so unused to sharing the earth with… Read More »Private English Tuition/Tutor Bolton Manchester and Bury: Narrative Writing-The Anticlockwise Tale Two
Her will-power and strategy had prevailed; Mortimer would stay. Outside the morning-room windows was a triangular slope of turf, which the indulgent might call a lawn, and beyond its low… Read More »English Tutor/Tuition Manchester Bolton: Saki’s ‘The Music on the Hill’ Analysis -Beyond the Shrubbery!
When you hear Ian Fleming’s famous hero announce his name as ”Bond, James Bond,” how many of you start to tingle and feel a rush of excitement? For ”James Bond”… Read More »3 Confidence Tricks I wish I’d known when I was younger :Three-Anchoring your confidence with James Bond!
She built another inch of her cathedral each night after school. Each day another piece discovered just out of the corner of her eye, even better when she was… Read More »English Tuition/Tutor Bolton Manchester: Narrative Writing-The Anticlockwise Tale!
Don’t go far off, not even for a day, because — because — I don’t know how to say it: a day is long and I will be waiting for… Read More »English Tuition Bolton Manchester and Bury: Pablo Neruda ‘Don’t Go Far Off.’ Analysis of a kind.
Shyness isn’t a great state to linger in. Morrisseys’ song ASK reminds us that : Shyness is nice, and Shyness can stop you From doing all the things in life… Read More »3 Confidence Tricks I wish I’d known when I was younger: TWO – How CURIOSITY creates CONFIDENCE!
Second Glance at Jaguar | Ted Hughes Skinful of bowls, he bowls them, The hip going in and out of joint, dropping the spine With the urgency of his hurry… Read More »Ted Hughes: Second Glance at Jaguar:Analysis-What a difference 10 years makes!
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I was a very shy child who used to feel sick every week before I went to the Brownies! I remember banging my head in Mum’s old Morris Minor called ‘Bobby’ and… Read More »3 Confidence Tricks I wish I’d known when I was younger! ONE- How to create positive rapport in seconds!
The apes yawn and adore their fleas in the sun. The parrots shriek as if they were on fire, or strut Like cheap tarts to attract the stroller with the… Read More »English Tutor Manchester and Bolton: Ted Hughes’ Jaguar analysis:Wild at heart!
About hundred and fifty years ago it was raining in Scotland and a man who had published virtually nothing began to draw a map to entertain his bored nephew. As… Read More »English Tutor Bolton, Manchester and Bury: How curiosity can transform your learning and your confidence!
Janet:Dylan Thomas has become a part of the establishment nowadays-he’s even in the AQA Anthology. Ironically he has become respectable! I was just wondering if you can remember when you… Read More »Dylan Thomas Under Milk Wood:Analysis, Commentary and Conversation with Martin Thomasson
And so he rested, on the lonely ground, Pensive, and full of painful jealousies Of the Wood-Gods, and even the very trees. There as he stood, he heard a mournful… Read More »Keats: Lamia Analysis with Dr Who in mind too!
Why does Private English Tuition work so effectively? Today I asked Carole Berry, who regularly tutors students for GCSE, A level and Undergraduate levels why Independent English tutoring proves so… Read More »English Tuition Bolton and Manchester: How Private Tuition can help you to succeed!
Private tuition is a practice older than the school system itself; in ancient times only the children from wealthiest families were given access to any form of education, usually… Read More »English Tutoring Bolton and Manchester: The Value of Tutoring by Jenny Bennion.
I stood at the edge of my child’s sleep hearing her breathe; although I could not enter there, I could not leave. Her sleep was a small wood, perfumed… Read More »GCSE English Literature Unseen Poetry : How to analyse a poem- Carol Ann Duffy ‘A Child’s Sleep’-BE CURIOUS!
Carole Berry and Janet Lewison Tusitala Conversation (extract) Janet Both poems significantly give representation to intensely realized spaces/places where human beings are imprisoned or enslaved by nature, society and even or especially the mind. Little wonder that one of Blake’s most famous… Read More »Blake’s ‘London’ and Emily Bronte’s ‘Spellbound’: Analysis and conversation extract.
