Les Grands Seigneurs Men were my buttresses, my castellated towers, the bowers where I took my rest. The best and worst of times were men: the peacocks and the… Read More »Dorothy Molloy ‘Les Grands Seigneurs’ Analysis of the AQA poem: What is strange or interesting?
The kind old face, the egg-shaped head, The tie, discreetly loud, The loosely fitting shooting clothes, A closely fitting shroud. He liked old city dining rooms, Potatoes in their skin,… Read More »John Betjeman ‘On a Portrait of a Deaf Man’: AQA Analysis and Review
I wander thro’ each charter’d street, Near where the charter’d Thames does flow, And mark in every face I meet Marks of weakness, marks of woe. In every… Read More »William Blake’s ‘London’: Analysis of AQA Anthology Poem. GCSE English literature.
One summer evening (led by her) I found A little boat tied to a willow tree Within a rocky cove, its usual home. Straight I unloosed her chain, and stepping… Read More »Wordsworth The Prelude(extract) Analysis of AQA Anthology poem.
The mountains gathered round me like bandits. Their leader swaggered up close in the dark light, full of threats, full of thunders. But it was they who stood and… Read More »Norman MacCaig ‘Below the Green Corrie’: Analysis and Review.
He was seven and I was six, my Brendon Gallacher. He was Irish and I was Scottish, my Brendon Gallacher. His father was in prison; he was a cat burglar.… Read More »Jackie Kay's 'Brendon Gallacher': Analysis-from AQA Character and Voice.
This is a disturbing poem, not least because the speaker, who we assume to be the ‘farmer’ narrates the story of the unfortunate’bride.’ I say unfortunate as she has no… Read More »Charlotte Mew, The Farmer’s Bride: An Analysis of sexual repression, fear and violation?
Last Saturday I taught this poem and found lots more to say as I realised I had missed so much before. Surely that is the secret of a good poem? It has… Read More »Andrew Forster's Brothers : An Analysis Revisited.
