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There is never a correct answer in English. Lots of different critics have different viewpoints, different ideological perspectives and different cultural backgrounds: all readers also come to books with different personal histories, prejudices, tastes and emotional backgrounds.
Furthermore, writers do not usually aim at a narrow audience of like-minded people: they are [...]
Robert Frost: Mowing
There was never a sound beside the wood but one,
And that was my long scythe whispering to the ground.
What was it it whispered? I knew not well myself;
Perhaps it was something about the heat of the sun,
Something, perhaps, about the lack of sound—
And that was why it [...]
Robert Frost: The Death of the Hired Man
Mary sat musing on the lamp-flame at the table
Waiting for Warren. When she heard his step,
She ran on tip-toe down the darkened passage
To meet him in the doorway with the news
And put him on his guard. ‘Silas is back.’
Robert Frost: Ghost House (From A Boy’s Will)
I DWELL in a lonely house I know
That vanished many a summer ago,
And left no trace but the cellar walls,
And a cellar in which the daylight falls,
And the purple-stemmed wild raspberries grow.
O’er ruined fences the grape-vines shield
Infant Joy
‘I have no name;
I am but two days old.’
What shall I call thee?
‘I happy am,
Joy is my name.’
Sweet joy befall thee!
Pretty joy!
Sweet joy, but two days old.
Sweet joy I call thee:
Thou dost smile,
I sing [...]
In its most simple guise an essay is a coherent argument or discussion about a given subject. It can inform, explore and be critical. It can summarize a state of play or it can drive home a single central argument. Like all writing it has a beginning, a middle and an end.
Good essays are:
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In the example which follows (taken from an AQA GCE A Level philosophy paper), we’ll be looking at how to approach a mixed format exam paper. If we breeze over the set passage to the questions below it, it immediately becomes apparent that various questions are asked and those questions carry various marks.
The alloted [...]
Being asked to compare two poems can be daunting.
It needn’t be.
The mental processes a critical reader will need to employ are essentially the same, whether you’re being asked to compare two poems by the same poet or two (or more) poems by different poets from different centuries.
We need to [...]
People use language to convey meaning, but …
they also use it to hide meanings.
This is why we use critical thinking when we consider language – so we don’t get fooled.
Who tries to fool us?
Politicians
Advertisers
Lawyers
Seducers
Liars
Con Men (and Women!)
Pretentious people [...]
Was military superiority the main reason for the expansion of British influence in India in the period c1757 to c1785? Explain your answer.
For the 19th Century historian Thomas Macauley, “military superiority”, along with other perceived superiorities (cultural, administrative, moral), was undoubtedly one of the main causes of the expansion of British influence in India. [...]
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