My Letters! is a classic sonnet written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. This timeless sonnet was studied in IB English, and my group created a presentation detailing our thoughts and analysis about it to help our fellow students revise for their IB English exams. We cannot guarantee the accuracy of the analysis and interpretation; this will [...Read more...]
Common Meanings What possible meanings might one find in a work? One method is just to take the specific events of a story and restate them in very broad terms. For example, if the story is about someone who is beaten up by bullies, then the meaning is never just that we should do something [...Read more...]
Great effort has been expended trying to unravel the mysteries of who Shakespeare was, yet there is another great English writer who is equally mysterious. We all have questions about John Keats. Why does he use so many strange allusions to Greek mythology? Why is “Ode on a Grecian Urn” so famous? Why does he [...Read more...]