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What is an ode? Reading Keats’ ‘Ode on Melancholy’ to find out

February 28, 2021 Miss JenLeave a comment

Do you have a favourite poet?

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Guilt in poetry: Reading Robert Browning’s ‘My Last Duchess’ and William Wordsworth’s ‘Extract from The Prelude’

January 31, 2021January 31, 2021 Miss JenLeave a comment

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

December 11, 2020 Miss JenLeave a comment

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’

November 17, 2020January 31, 2021 Miss JenLeave a comment

(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’

October 28, 2020 Miss JenLeave a comment

(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’

October 2, 2020 Miss JenLeave a comment

If literature is the peanut butter of culture, then art is the grape jelly that goes with it. 

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How to read Romantic poetry (II): Shelley’s ‘Love’s Philosophy’ & Byron’s ‘When We Two Parted’

September 7, 2020September 13, 2020 Miss JenLeave a comment

(This post contains videos of the two poems’ analysis – see bottom of post)

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How to read Romantic poetry (I): William Wordsworth’s ‘Tintern Abbey’ & John Keats’ ‘To Autumn’

September 2, 2020 Miss JenLeave a comment

Romanticism is one of those terms that seem to mean everything and nothing at the same time.

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How to read the sonnet

August 12, 2020August 14, 2020 Miss Jen1 Comment

Poems aren’t easy to read, but if there’s any poetic form that grants both pleasure and closure, it’s probably the sonnet. 

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What’s the difference between form & structure?

July 27, 2020December 1, 2020 Miss JenLeave a comment

Two of the most commonly mixed-up words in the study of English Literature are ‘form’ and ‘structure’. 

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