You know that something’s great literature when it leaves you with a gut-wrenching feeling.
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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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Jealousy in Othello: 3 key ideas (with quotes, analysis & video)
(This post contains a detailed video on the topic.)
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What’s the difference between allegory & fable?
Here’s a starter for 10 – what is the point of literature?
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CHRISTMAS SPECIAL: Mince pies & juicy persons in Charles Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’
Happy Christmas, all.
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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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Justice in The Merchant of Venice: 3 key ideas (with quotes, analysis & video)
(This post contains a detailed video on the topic.)
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What is an unreliable narrator? Reading Ishiguro & Nabokov to find out
Most of us wouldn’t want unreliable people as friends.
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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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ELECTION SEASON SPECIAL: a rhetorical analysis of Joe Biden and Donald Trump’s president-elect speeches
2020’s been a historic year, and to top it all off, it’s culminated in a historic event – the 2020 US Presidential Election, which saw the highest amount of voter turn-out in more than a century.
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