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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 understand any speech: your guide to ethos, pathos & logos

June 21, 2020December 1, 2020 Miss JenLeave a comment

In this post, let’s take a break from poetry and literature to look at something slightly different – rhetoric and persuasion. 

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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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What The Merchant of Venice tells us about racism and prejudice

June 6, 2020December 8, 2020 Miss Jen3 Comments

This is a particularly uncomfortable time to be re-reading The Merchant of Venice.

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Why is Hamlet such a fascinating character?

May 16, 2020May 16, 2020 Miss JenLeave a comment

In my post on Macbeth, I propose that one of the reasons for our long-standing fascination with Macbeth the character is his outsized boldness.

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