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 unseen poetry, which is a mandatory component in almost all English Literature exams (so make sure you check that out if you haven’t already).
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 »Previously, I wrote a post analysing the theme of duality in Robert Louis Stevenson’s much loved The Strange Case of Jekyll and Hyde. And one of the most obvious dualities in the novella is good versus evil.
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 »One of my favourite words in English is ‘misnomer’, which means an inaccurate name for something.
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Read More »In the age of social media, the line between our public and private selves has never been narrower.
Read More »You know that something’s great literature when it leaves you with a gut-wrenching feeling.
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