some of this is really useful

Glossary of glamorous words
This helps me a lot, especially in unseen and poetry.*


*DISCLAIMER: or if you need to boost that word count and close analysis.

Feminine Gospels - Wish

As composed by Year 13:

How does Wish fit into ‘Feminine Gospels’?

Feminine Gospels conveys a feminist view on the stereotypes of women and Wish portrays a conventional approach towards depression. A feminist view would suggest that the oppression women face in society is similar to society’s attitudes towards mental illness. Duffy’s past experiences and traumas could be traceable within the behaviours of the characters. Psychoanalysis could suggest that she is expressing her unconscious desires and weaknesses by disguising them within Feminine Gospels. Descriptions of “her bare feet walk along the gravel path between the graves” is

There is also an evident connection between Duffy’s Wish and Andrew Marvell’s To His Coy Mistress. The underlying dark imagery found in both poems can be interpreted, despite varying messages, as it can viewed that Wish is Duffy’s feminist response to Marvell’s evidently misogynistic, hedonistic tone in To His Coy Mistress. The dark imagery of “graves” and “sly worms” mirrors the “marble vault” and the “worms that try that long preserv’d virginity” in Marvell’s poem.

Battle of the Sixth Form blogs!

Hi guys,

As a class you need to use your shared writing skills to create a three paragraph response to this question about Othello:


How is love presented as a changing element in the play you have studied?


Enjoy - get competitive!

Miss C

Helpful for Year 13

Mark scheme for the NEA!


Look at pages 27-31.


Miss Court


http://filestore.aqa.org.uk/resources/english/specifications/AQA-7711-7712-SP-2015.PDF

Othello as a play encompassess a wide variety of loves, which do you think are most prominent?

Please comment on your own personal response to this - with an example and reason.

Useful revision tool for Feminine Gospels

I recommend printing, laminating and keeping somewhere you will look at it and admire everyday. I have one in my office in the staff room. Lucky me :-)


https://getrevising.co.uk/diagrams/feminine_gospels_by_carol_ann_duffy

Spoken Word Poet

Have a look at Holly's spoken word poetry, her new book encompasses feminism and motherhood topics that we look at in The Feminine Gospels.


She is great - if you ever get chance to see her live - do it. I will being her book to class on Wednesday.

https://www.youtube.com/user/holliemcnish