A Summary and Analysis of ‘The Apple’ by H. G. Wells
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By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Of all of the short stories by H. G. Wells (1866-1946), ‘The Apple’ is perhaps the most allegorical. First published in the Idler magazine in October 1896, the story concerns a schoolmaster who meets a man on a train; this man gives the teacher an apple which is from ... Read more ..read more
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A Summary and Analysis of ‘Rain’ by Edward Thomas
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By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Edward Thomas’s poem ‘Rain’ was written in 1916, while Thomas was fighting in the trenches. ‘Rain’ is about Thomas’s experience of sitting in a hut all night alone, listening to the rain falling and meditating on his death and on the fates of his fellow soldiers in the First ... Read more ..read more
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A Summary and Analysis of ‘Dialogue with the Mirror’
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By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘Dialogue with the Mirror’ is a 1949 short story by the Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez. Published when he was just twenty-two years old, it is an early work written when Márquez was still finding his way towards his mature style. In the story, a man looks at himself ... Read more ..read more
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10 of the Best Sharon Olds Poems Everyone Should Read
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By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) The American poet Sharon Olds (born 1942) was born and raised in California and educated at Stanford, although she has spent much of her adult life in New York City. Although she began writing under the shadow of other poets such as Gary Snyder and George Oppen, she resolved ... Read more ..read more
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A Summary and Analysis of ‘Wind’ by Ted Hughes
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By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘Wind’ is, after ‘The Thought-Fox’, probably the most famous and most successful poem in Ted Hughes’ debut collection of poetry, The Hawk in the Rain (1957). In the poem, Hughes describes the experience of a powerful gale which blasts through the landscape, affecting everything from the birds flying through ... Read more ..read more
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A Summary and Analysis of Alice Walker’s ‘Roselily’
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By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘Roselily’ is the opening story of Alice Walker’s short-story collection In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women (1973). The story explores the conflicting emotions of a young black woman on her wedding day, as she prepares for a new life in which she must leave behind her young ... Read more ..read more
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10 of the Best Ocean Vuong Poems Everyone Should Read
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By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) The Vietnamese-born American poet Ocean Vuong is one of the most exciting new poets to emerge in the last decade or so. His poetry deals with a variety of themes, including war, family, love, and identity, with many of his poems discussing the enigmatic figure of his father. Born ... Read more ..read more
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A Summary and Analysis of ‘The Valley of Spiders’ by H. G. Wells
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By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘The Valley of Spiders’ is a short story by the British science-fiction pioneer, H. G. Wells (1866-1946). First published in the Strand magazine in 1903, the story is actually closer to Gothic horror or adventure tale than to science fiction, and shows Wells’s versatility and range. Summary To summarise ... Read more ..read more
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10 of the Best Dylan Thomas Poems Everyone Should Read
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By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) The Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (1914-53) was a fascinating man and poet, and his poetry remains much-loved and widely read around the world. But which are his very best poems? In this post, we’ve endeavoured to choose Dylan Thomas’s ten finest poems which we think everyone should read. His ... Read more ..read more
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A Summary and Analysis of Emily Dickinson’s ‘They Shut Me up in Prose’
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By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘They Shut Me up in Prose’, whilst not one of Emily Dickinson’s best-known poems – it certainly isn’t up there with ‘I’m Nobody! Who are you?’, ‘Hope is the thing with feathers’, or ‘A narrow Fellow in the Grass’ – is nevertheless sometimes anthologised, and occasionally quoted for its ... Read more ..read more
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