By the time Carol Ann Duffy wrote the poem in the late 1980s, free verse had become pretty standard for poets writing in English. In other words, the speaker isn't necessarily making an important argument by using free verse. Instead he or she is simply reflecting the poetic standards of...
Play All Automatically move to the next video in the Classroom when playback concludes 1 The Relevance of Poetry 2 Approaching Poetry 3 Functions of Poetry 4 Forms of Poetry 5 Poetic Devices 6 The Music of Poetry 7 Geoffrey Chaucer 8 The Prologue 9 Elizabethan Poetry 10 Sir ...
Obviously, the play is not American, and historically, Shakespeare took liberties with the assassination of Caesar in this 400+-year-old play. But the different rhetorical devices Shakespeare used in these funeral speeches allow the English teachers a means to highlight how well the charactersdemons...
For years, the state standardized test was given to grade 10, sophomore students. In Connecticut, the results were never timely enough to deliver instruction to address areas of weakness during 10th grade, but they did help inform general areas of weakness in curriculum in mathematics, English/la...
December 19, 2021 at 3:10 pm this is a bad development and is to the detriment of all New Zealanders, including Maori I agree. Do they not understand that the moment NZ science students have to start doing laboratory work, they’re going to find the...
Many foreigners who have not visited Britain call all the inhabitants English, for they are used to thinking of the British Isles as England. (21) , the British Isles contain a variety of peoples, and only the people of England call themselves English. The others (22) to th...
Happy Birthday, John Milton! (Poetic Genius and Christmas Curmudgeon) December 9, 2013—Leave a comment No sooner are essays on Mary Shelley’sFrankensteinhanded in, then the copies ofParadise Lostare handed out to the Advanced Placement English Literature Students. Yes, there are over 10,000 ...
I am talking to you….you, Advanced Placement English Literature teacher, pretentiously waving me off with your worn cover of Thomas Hardy’sTess of the D’Urbevilles.Yes, you too..the one taking notes on Nathaniel Hawthorne’sThe Scarlet Letter,the book you assigned for summer reading?
Today marks the 200th birthday of American writer (poet, essayist, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist)Henry David Thoreau.I remember my first encounters with Thoreau were traditional, his essays read in my high school English class. Soon after, my choice of for a quote under my yearbook pho...