IGCSE With Mrs C

 Elizabeth Jennings (18 July 1926- 26 October 2001)  In praise of creation Born in the United Kingdom in Boston, Lincolnshire, she moved to Oxford when she was 6 years old and stayed there for the rest of her life. She attended Oxford University as a student in St Anne's College, and started publishing her poetry in local periodicals like Oxford Poetry and British journals such as The Spectator and New English Weekly. She became a librarian at the Oxford City library. At the age of 27, she published her first book, Poems (1953). The next year, her second book was published, A Way of Looking (1954), which won the Somerset Maugham prize and set off her public recognition as a poet. With the prize money, she lived for several months in Rome, which inspired her greatly. She was a Roman Catholic with religious beliefs and imagination, and although she suffered from mental illness at one point in her life, her poetry is recognized for its simplicity of form and its traditionalism, and sh

  You will know when you get there  by Allen Curnow Here is a summary written by a student two years ago: You will know when you get there is a poem by Allen Curnow. This poem has a very interesting structure, before even reading it the reader already feels confused and awkward, the poem is made of ten couplets and one tercet. Curnow plays a lot with enjambment as it is present in almost every line. This gives the poem a speaking voice effect, but it takes away the reassuring feeling that a traditional poem would give to a reader. The fact that the poem is in free verse also adds to this effect the reader doesn't know what to expect next, this creates tension.  Allen Curnow uses assonance with shower and shredding (line 4) thickening and thinning (line 6) ocean and shallowed (line 18), all those sounds are sounds that takes the mouth a lot of effort to pronounce this adds to the tension already presents with the unusual structure. We could also say that the assonance Line 4 and lin

 This might be a good moment to revise my 'Top Ten Sentence Suggestions' and my "Top Ten Grammar Suggestions" and my "Debating Language" by following linked-in pages to better understanding.  Ten Top Sentence Suggestions 1.      Write short clear sentences. See t his guide on syntax for help. 2.      Learn how to use the full stop/period. See this punctuation guide !  3.      Do not over rely on commas. See t his guide on commas . 4.      Bring the subject up to the start of the sentence: the dog sat on the mat, not on the mat the dog sat. 5.      Keep a note of your most common spelling errors Correct Spelling Incorrect Spelling Literature Litterature Writer Writter First of all Firstable To lose ( I lost my keys yesterday) To be loose (my son’s front tooth is loose) 6.      Avoid slang words and keep the tone relatively formal Formal Informal Novel Book film Movie Man, woma