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AS and A Level: Post-1770
- Category:
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
(46 essays) - Carol Ann Duffy
(182 essays) - John Keats
(46 essays) - Other Poets
(169 essays) - Philip Larkin
(60 essays) - Robert Frost
(88 essays) - Seamus Heaney
(50 essays) - Simon Armitage
(28 essays) - Sylvia Plath
(25 essays) - Ted Hughes
(13 essays) - W.B. Yeats
(54 essays) - War Poetry
(1,542 essays) - William Wordsworth
(60 essays)
2,363 AS and A Level Post-1770 essays
- Marked by Teachers essays 25
- Peer Reviewed essays 21
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Journeying in Hardy's "At Castle Boterel"
5 star(s)An excellent essay, which demonstrates understanding of how poetic technique and subject matter are intricately linked and used to craft and create meaning. The writer understands and can explain the…
- Essay length: 1537 words
- Submitted: 03/11/2009
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Marked by teacher:
Val Shore
21/03/2012
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Larkin is often portrayed as being obsessed by death, but High Windows is as much about life as it is about death. How true do you find this statement?
5 star(s)This is, in many ways, a very good essay that responds sensitively to Larkin's poetry. Its problem is that it never really engages directly with the question, making a…
- Essay length: 1393 words
- Submitted: 03/03/2008
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Marked by teacher:
Tony Scola
04/04/2012
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The idea of the experiment is to determine which equation is correct. There are 2 equations of CuCo3 and I have to find out which gases are given off when CuCo3 is given off.
5 star(s)There is a lot of information in this assignment. It sometimes could do with organising and subtitling to lead the reader through the different sections, but it's a good and…
- Essay length: 1517 words
- Submitted: 18/11/2003
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Marked by teacher:
Lindsay Taverner
02/05/2112
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Using 'Ode on Melancholy' and one other, examine how Keats uses language to explore his muses
4 star(s)This is a very knowledgeable, perceptive commentary, which refers frequently and accurately to both poems. It might have been interesting to have compared them more directly and address the importance…
- Essay length: 1194 words
- Submitted: 03/02/2005
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Marked by teacher:
Val Shore
30/11/1999
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Reviewed by:
lordharvey
03/07/2012
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Explain how the poets of Happy is England Now in the anthology Up the Line to Death present World War I
4 star(s)This is a thoughtful, well-structured essay, demonstrating genuine interest in the poems and World War One. Contextual knowledge is evident and usually used effectively, and there is some pertinent poetic…
- Essay length: 2201 words
- Submitted: 06/01/2012
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Marked by teacher:
Lucy Foss/Snell
05/02/2012
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Analyse the poem "Daddy" by Sylvia Plath
4 star(s)This essay has two great strengths. Firstly it traces the development of the poem without ignoring the difficult parts. Secondly it takes an appropriately tentative approach to discussing dense and…
- Essay length: 1943 words
- Submitted: 25/02/2009
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Marked by teacher:
Val Shore
15/03/2012
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Sylvia Plath,
4 star(s)Good features of this essay are its sensitive awareness of mood and how metaphor is used to create it, and how various poetic devices are employed to achieve effects.
However,…- Essay length: 1715 words
- Submitted: 14/03/2007
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Marked by teacher:
Val Shore
30/11/1999
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Analysis of Does It Matter? by Siegfried Sassoon
4 star(s)Many perceptive and original ideas are raised and discussed in this essay. The writer has clearly engaged with the poem and the subject matter on a deep level and is…
- Essay length: 1993 words
- Submitted: 10/09/2003
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Marked by teacher:
Lucy Foss
09/04/2013
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To what extent do you agree with the view that Duffy presents the female characters in The World's Wife as victims? Refer to 2 or 3 of the poems we have studied so far in your answer.
3 star(s)This had the makings of a sound essay, but the writer needs to address the text in much more detail, consider the poems more comparatively and analyse the poetic form…
- Essay length: 1510 words
- Submitted: 31/03/2006
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Marked by teacher:
Karen Reader
30/11/1999
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Reviewed by:
04/09/2012
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The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost relates on both a literal and metaphoric level to the concept of a journey.
3 star(s)The writer shows potential in this essay. Concepts are well explained and the symbolic reading of the poem is apparent. With better planning and less repetition, this would have achieved…
- Essay length: 1138 words
- Submitted: 24/02/2004
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Marked by teacher:
Karen Reader
21/02/2012
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Reviewed by:
_becca
02/04/2012
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