You do not have to be good.You do not have to walk on your kneesfor a hundred miles through the desert repenting.You only have to let the soft animal of your bodylove what it loves.Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.Meanwhile the world goes on.Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles […]
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Shimmerwise
on new year’s eve BY EVIE SHOCKLEY we make midnight a maquette of the year:frostlight glinting off snow to solemnize the vows we offer to ourselves in nearsilence: the competition shimmerwise of champagne and chandeliers to attractlaughter and cheers: the glow from the fireplace reflecting the burning intra-red pactbetween beloveds: we cosset the space […]
(Sappho) Paper one practice : Feedback/Reflection
The word CAT had been prowling around the crevices of my mind for a week, but, as one does, I left my ‘preparation’ for the last day. Unfortunately, this was not a result of bad time management, but rather a result of no time left to manage. As I sat in my seat staring at […]
Tumbling through time: Sappho and the accuracy of her translations
A game of broken telephone that started in 600 BCE has given us the translations of Sappho that we can hold in our hands today. While one can’t help but marvel at the idea we are capable of reading literature that is many millennia older than us, we also have to remember that every round […]
Mirror, Window, Sliding door
Mirrors reflect the world you are in, and windows let you peer out to the unknown. Sliding doors are the exception, wherein they let you step outside of your own world and get lost in another. This is why literature that acts as a sliding door is my favourite type of literature. For me, my […]
English TIBE (CAT feedback/points of improvement)
how to answer paper 1 this exemplar of how to write about a poem Where to improve: tried too hard to relate it back to the main point, need to analyse more. Focus on sentence structure Embedding quote is good Clear distinct points required I think the case could be made […]
Notes on Raymond Chandler Parragraph
Don’t go from top to bottom, highlight themes and ideas throughout the passage and make sure each paragraph has ideas from all sections of the prose/poem Ideas for The long goodbye The narrator uses word building, characterisation, imagery Hero vs society and Hero vs self Identify which aspects of the prose are related […]
An analysis of the social themes behind TIBE
I do agree with the idea that Oscar Wilde’s work does not have any explicit social theme, to an extent. I think that rather than following one specific social theme, Wilde. The Importance of Being Earnest, summarized in one phrase, follows the story of distinguished, high status, dandy individuals caring a little too much about […]
Baba Iaga and the pelican child
I chose to read this short story as the name Baba Iaga seemed familiar to me, like something I knew of, but could not remember. The name triggered images of some Slavic deity, a witch possibly, surrounded by the mysticism of the natural, the magic of the unknown so well embodied by the forest and […]
Thoughts on Humour
26th August 2020 My knowledge on humour, or at least its intricacies was limited till today, the extent of my knowledge was the basic classifications that ‘memes’ would be placed under. We discovered the different types of humour, and the learnings allowed me to analyse my own tendencies, and how I can often have […]