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Category: Poetry

How to read the dramatic monologue: comparing Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s poems

July 10, 2020 Miss JenLeave a comment

Following our discussion of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath, I figured that we should look at a less turbulent and more loving union of literary minds: Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. 

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What is ‘freedom’? Reading Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath to find out

June 28, 2020September 24, 2020 Miss JenLeave a comment

Poets are a hypersensitive bunch.

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How to sock it to your oppressors: tips from two 20th century black poets

June 17, 2020July 13, 2020 Miss JenLeave a comment

For many people, colonialism is hard to talk about. 

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How to write an awesome analysis on sound in poetry: your guide to alliteration, assonance, consonance

June 13, 2020October 15, 2020 Miss JenLeave a comment

Of all the areas in literary analysis, writing about sound is probably one of the most challenging. 

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Most people can’t tell these 4 literary devices apart: your guide to paradox, oxymoron, antithesis & contrast

May 20, 2020September 18, 2020 Miss JenLeave a comment

Following my post on comparative devices (simile, metaphor, analogy and conceit), some readers have asked me to write a post on contrasting devices. 

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Looking at war poetry (I): Wilfred Owen’s ‘Insensibility’ & Carol Ann Duffy’s ‘War Photographer’

May 13, 2020September 17, 2020 Miss JenLeave a comment

Across the ages, war has always been a popular theme in poetry.

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Your ultimate guide to simile, metaphor, analogy & conceit

May 2, 2020May 19, 2020 Miss JenLeave a comment

One of the first literary devices most English students learn is ‘simile’, which is derived from the Latin word ‘similis’, meaning ‘like’.

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