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Category: Poetry
Guilt in poetry: Reading Robert Browning’s ‘My Last Duchess’ and William Wordsworth’s ‘Extract from The Prelude’
One of the most interesting things about literature is what I like to call the ‘certainty of ambiguity’.
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Comparing love poetry (II): Reading Philip Larkin & Carol Ann Duffy
A friend of mine once said, “what good are emotions if all they do is make you weak?”
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Comparing love poetry (I): Thomas Hardy’s ‘Neutral Tones’ & Maura Dooley’s ‘Letters from Yorkshire’
(This post contains two detailed videos on the topic.)
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Looking at war poetry (II): Wilfred Owen’s ‘Exposure’ and Ted Hughes’ ‘Bayonet Charge’
(This post contains two detailed videos on the topic.)
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Reading poetry through art (I): W.H. Auden’s ‘Musee des beaux arts’ & William Carlos Williams’ ‘Landscape’
If literature is the peanut butter of culture, then art is the grape jelly that goes with it.
How to read Romantic poetry (II): Shelley’s ‘Love’s Philosophy’ & Byron’s ‘When We Two Parted’
(This post contains videos of the two poems’ analysis – see bottom of post)
How to read Romantic poetry (I): William Wordsworth’s ‘Tintern Abbey’ & John Keats’ ‘To Autumn’
Romanticism is one of those terms that seem to mean everything and nothing at the same time.
How to read the sonnet
Poems aren’t easy to read, but if there’s any poetic form that grants both pleasure and closure, it’s probably the sonnet.
What’s the difference between form & structure?
Two of the most commonly mixed-up words in the study of English Literature are ‘form’ and ‘structure’.
