Tag: Poetry
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Links to All things Othello/Keats
Lines to Die for: Othello Mock Exam: Othello Mock Exam Essay: To Leigh Hunt Poetry Slam Friday: The Odes of John Keats, Ode to Melancholy rewashed: An Essay on Moral Choice in Othello Poetry Slam Friday: The Odes of John Keats, Ode to Psyche Characteristics of John Keats’ Poetry Poetry Slam Fridays: The Sonnets’ Bonnet…
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Mock Exam Essay: To Leigh Hunt
Paper 5: Keats Word Count: 630 words, or 3 sides of a 16paged Cambridge GCE(A/AS) Examinations Booklet Final Grade: 80% Teacher’s Comments: Good conclusion and interpretation. Why no critics’ response? My Comments: looking again at this essay, I am surprised I did as well as I did. There are a lot of spelling mistakes, hanging…
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Poetry Slam Friday: The Odes of John Keats, Ode to Psyche
Hey guys. Been a while hasn’t it since a post like this. Between school, extra-curricular and applications (to US no less), keeping up with even one post per month has been hard. However, I recently joined the A* Challenge along with a hundred other blogs, and I stand by my decision to go for those…
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Poetry Slam Friday: Sonnet 18
Ugh…Shakespeare! Why couldn’t you just leave us alone with our Othello and other plays? Who in Middle Earth encouraged you to write poetry? And then invite us to this Poetry Slam Friday to review your work? When will Literature teachers everywhere put down your work and move on to someone more…understandable? Oscar Wilde, the Brontë…
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Poetry Slam Fridays: Sonnet 31
Hello all! Miss me? This week we begin our sequence of Sonnets from everyone in Songs of Ourselves. This week, we’re visiting the obsessive, the loving, the smothering Sir Philip Sidney! Yes, I’m talking about the author of Astrophel and Stella. Fortunately, we are not reviewing the ahem, creepy songs and sonnets of Astrophel. No, we’re swirling in…
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Quick Exam Poetry Analysis Diamond
Hey true believers, miss me? As November ends and December rolls around, I tried to think of the most annoying part of the Thanksgiving/Christmas/Boxer Day/ Chanukah Season, and my brain screamed FINAL EXAMS. This post is for all of you who blank out when presented a poetry question. Hope it helps!
Nico Addae Miss Minds 