Make sure you understand each of these terms, you highly esteemed carriers of the fire!

Poetry
♦ form
♦ structure
♦ stanza pattern
♦ poetic voice/persona
♦ word choice
♦ imagery
♦ rhyme
♦ rhythm and meter
♦ stress
♦ sound
♦ mood
♦ tone

Troops, don’t forget that whenever you discuss Poor Things and Lanark, you should always return to the subversiveness and rebelliousness of the characters in relation to the societies they inhabit.  Neither Bella nor Lanark nor Duncan are in harmony with the societies they inhabit.  List the ways in which they are in DISharmony.  Consider how setting and symbolism are combined to depict societies hostile to the main protagonists of the texts.  Practise writing about key incidents and passages in each text.  In what ways are the incidents each significant?  How does the action or response of each character develop our understanding of them and of central themes in the texts?  How do the characters’ quests or journeys convey important political and social messages?  In what ways is power relevant to each text?

Keep going.  You can do it.  Find past papers on the SQA site.

MrT

But, you can still come in to sign your Folio flyleaf in the morning if your plan is to do that.  Just knock on Ms McGrory’s door.  She will give you a form and then she’ll pass it to me when you have completed it.

If you want to see me about any aspect of the course, we could possibly discuss at lunch time and then again during p6 when I am free.  Thursday is the next day when I will be in and available.

Keep going, carriers of the fire!

MrT

Please come into school to give me the record of research for your dissertation.  Scroll down to find the template I provided.  If your record comprises a fairly well labelled set of notes and is not written on the template then I can accept that.

Please also come in to sign and complete AH Folio lyleafs.

Thanks!  🙂

MrT

I you are NOT on the following list you need to come in to see me to sign a Folio flyleaf: I DO have flyleafs for Dylan, Eva, Tally, Eren.

Thanks and see you soon!

MrT

Troops, the third and fourth stanzas in ‘Afternoons’ should be merged together to make the final stanza – stanza 3.  And ‘acrons’ should be ‘acorns’…  Thanks guys.  See you tomorrow.  MrT.

Troops,

Here’s a limited selection of 20th C poems.  The first few are by the brilliant Edna St Vincent Millay.   Have fun deconstructing them!

Selection of 20th Century Poems

Please come to see me on Tuesday to pick up timed essays which have been marked and are ready for return.  Much of the work is good 🙂 whilst there are  still some improvements to make.

Keep going.  You can do it.

Regards.  MrT

Brilliant article: poetry and nationalist politics – concept of the quest to return to a temporarily lost, ideal state.  Compare this to the revolutionary and progressive Burns and Shelley poems in the previous post’s attachment.  And there you have it: progressive poetry vs conservative poetry.  Which side do you find yourself on?

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/apr/12/brexiteers-poetry-epic-quest-eliot-tennyson-yeats-brexit

There are some STUPENDOUS poems here.  It was so difficult to choose, but I hope you enjoy analysing my selection of poems from the late 18th to late 19th centuries.  Consider nature, human nature, time, relationships, the soul, the imagination, politics, religion/faith, ends and beginnings, immortality, the power of literature, hope…

Romantics and late Romantics

And of course the poetic devices and forms that convey these central concerns.

Use terminology when discussing poetry (voice, mood, stanza, rhyme, rhythm (meter), imagery, line structure, enjambement, caesurae, end-stop, assonance, alliteration, symbolism…)

Get stuck in, troops.  YOU CAN DO IT!

AH Poetry Textual Analysis Practice Part 1

Three truly great poems about relationships (that one word description is a HUGE oversimplification that you must ALWAYS expand upon!) from 16th and early 17th C.  Remember, read carefully and you’ll gradually find a way in.  Key lines will unlock the poems for you.  All three of these poets are daring, complex, challenging, direct, indirect in their own ways.  Enjoy!

18th C and Romantics coming soon… 🙂

Advanced Higher English Easter Mission Tasks

Advanced Higher English Dissertation Project

In an unprecedented move, I am hereby giving you the right to use my JSTOR (online academic journal store) username and password to research and read dissertation secondary texts.  Only the free ones are available to you, of course.   But there are some very good ones, so make the most of it!

Username: andrewthomson1

Password:  Cordoba1

Melvin Bragg discusses A&C, Shakespeare and his historical source, Plutarch.  For A&C between 20-30 minutes is the best section.   Enjoy!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0000qnh

https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1064&context=honors_projects

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/23/charles-dickens-wife-victorian-asylum

Welcome to your own AH English blog, shock troops of civilization!

May I direct your attention to three links on the bar to the left.  There are two thoughtful opinion pieces on the Liam Neeson racism controversy for all you enthusiastic non-fiction folio writers to study.  They are for everybody else, too, of course!  There is also a link to an Antony and Cleopatra  learning resource.  The Themes section is particularly useful.  It does contain spoilers so read with caution!

Much more to come.  Enjoy for now!

Mr T

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