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.
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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 »Poems aren’t easy to read, but if there’s any poetic form that grants both pleasure and closure, it’s probably the sonnet.
Two of the most commonly mixed-up words in the study of English Literature are ‘form’ and ‘structure’.
If paradox is perplexing and conceit is confusing, then allusion is probably one of the most annoying literary devices out there.
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.
Poets are a hypersensitive bunch.
For many people, colonialism is hard to talk about.
Of all the areas in literary analysis, writing about sound is probably one of the most challenging.
Following my post on comparative devices (simile, metaphor, analogy and conceit), some readers have asked me to write a post on contrasting devices.