I recently asked my YouTube subscribers about the topics they’d like to see from the channel, and the one that came out top was ‘how to use literary criticism in your own essays’.
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I recently asked my YouTube subscribers about the topics they’d like to see from the channel, and the one that came out top was ‘how to use literary criticism in your own essays’.
Read More »Previously, I wrote a post on how to analyse any unseen poem, which a lot of you found useful. One of you asked if I could also write a guide on how to compare poems, so that’s what this post is for.
Read More »Following my previous post on Lady Macbeth and Desdemona, in which I suggest that neither character is as bad or good as popular opinion would have us believe, I’d like us to push the moral spectrum further towards each end by looking at Goneril (King Lear) and Imogen (Cymbeline) – characters that most would agree are just as evil or virtuous as they seem.
Read More »So far, I’ve written plenty of analysis on poetry, novels and plays. I’ve also written a brief guide on ‘how to come up with analysis’, which you can check out here. But time and again, one of the most popular requests I get is a guide on ‘how to analyse unseen poetry’.
Read More »This post contains 2 YouTube videos with top tips for English Literature revision. So check them out if you’re a lit student!
Read More »One of my favourite words in English is ‘misnomer’, which means an inaccurate name for something.
Read More »Do you have a favourite poet?
Read More »Happy Christmas, all.
Read More »A friend of mine once said, “what good are emotions if all they do is make you weak?”
Read More »Most of us wouldn’t want unreliable people as friends.
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