The Narrator of" Brighton Rock" by G.A. Wilkes

Worth reading as you work your way into the novel. Wilkes makes intriguing points on the viewpoint of the narrator and changes in subsequent publications of this novel.

http://escholarship.usyd.edu.au/journals/index.php/SSE/article/viewFile/498/470

The Great Gatsby - Cultural Context

Excellent for getting to grips with this quickly.

http://www.mrcoia.com/school/units/gatsby/gatsby_pres.htm

The Great Gatsby - Study Guides and Resources

A one page study guide!

http://www.bellmore-merrick.k12.ny.us/grgatsb.html

A homework study guide:

http://www.homework-online.com/tgg/index.html

An essay on symbolism in The Great Gatsby (worth reading!)

https://www.msu.edu/~millettf/gatsby.html

The Great Gatsby study links:

http://www.emints.org/ethemes/resources/S00000730.shtml

Novel reflections on "The American Dream" from PBS. See the video and how Gatsby is gradually introduced as a "man of mystery" by Nick Carraway.

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americannovel/video/ANgreatgatsby.html

More generally, "The American Dream":

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americannovel/video/ANamericandream.html

AS Study Guides for "Brighton Rock" by Graham Greene

This is an excellent study aid. But remember to analyse the text yourself before referring to it as you need to develop your own critical faculties.

http://www.eriding.net/amoore/prose/brighton.htm

Here's the same guide but in a different format.

http://www.eriding.net/resources/english/040107_amoore_eng_ks5_y12-13_brightonrock.rtf.

Visual Grammar

http://aspirations.english.cam.ac.uk/converse/movies/visual_grammar.swf

"TOYS" by Coventry Patmore and a link to an interpretation of the poem

Written in the early 1860s after losing his wife, Coventry Patmore's poem discloses the oscillating feelings of severity and tenderness that were so prevalent in his personality. He went to visit William Barnes in Dorchester as each had recently lost their wives and were now widowers with a similar number of children. This poem reflects Old and New Testment ideas in its structure, and, Patmore's "Toys" were probably the trappings of this world, which would be no more than "toys" in the eyes of God.




After having a go at interpreting the poem yourselves, read this interpretation English Teacher Man.

http://englishteacherman.wordpress.com/2010/06/14/afatherslove/

Yeats and "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"

The early slides are full of information on Yeats's 1893 poem, "The Lake Isle of Innisfree". Focus on the poet's symbolism as you read it.

W. B. Yeats

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Synesthesia (also spelled synæsthesia or synaesthesia, plural synesthesiae or synaesthesiae)—from the Ancient Greek σύν (syn), "together," and αἴσθησις (aisthēsis), "sensation"—is a neurologically based phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway. People who report such experiences are known as synesthetes.

"Linnets" belong to a species of bird known as a finch. They are songbirds and symbolise home and family.