Extracts from Jane Eyre, designed for easy reading. Introducing Jane: Extract 1 There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. We had been wandering, indeed, in the leafless shrubbery an hour in the morning; but since dinner (Mrs. Reed, when there was no company, dined early) the cold winter wind had brought with […]
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Neutral Tones exposes Hardy’s dark assessment of human relationships. In Neutral Tones, Thomas Hardy frankly exposes the slow death of a relationship, and all the insecurity it entails. A man living in a time of great social change, reading Hardy’s work can often make you think he had lost faith in the ties that bind
Power and Conflict Poetry. Simplified. Ozymandias – Percy Bysshe Shelly I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell
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Love and Relationships Poetry. Simplified. When We Two Parted When we two parted In silence and tears, Half broken-hearted To sever for years, Pale grew thy cheek and cold, Colder thy kiss; Truly that hour foretold Sorrow to this. The dew of the morning Sank chill on my brow– It felt like the warning Of
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When We Two Parted gives us an insight into Lord Byron’s most hidden feelings. Byron’s Psyche Lord Byron’s When we Two Parted not only details the parting of two lovers, but gives us an awareness of the deeper emotions and insecurities that fuelled Byron’s writing. These four quotes from When We Two Parted show each
Need to see things differently? Look at perspective in Ozymandias from another angle. Luxor, Egypt, from Above Perspectives in Oymandias In the poem Ozymandias, there are at least four different perspectives given by distinctly different characters. The poem is told to us by Shelley, who is telling as a story he himself heard from a
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