Month: September 2015
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Act 1 Scene 2 ,Act 1 Scene 3 and Act 1 Scene 4 summaries
Act 1 scene 2: The scene takes place the morning after the ghost/apparition was sighted by the men. The king (Claudius) gives a speech, in which he explains the marriage between him and the queen (Gertrude), who is his the mother of Hamlet and the widow to his brother. ” with mirth in funeral and…
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Hamlet Act 1 Scene 1 summary
The scene starts off with two sentinels or guards . They are called Bernardo and Francisco , in this first part of the scene both of these men are apprehensive, not just because they cannot see each other, but also because they believe that there is an apparition around that area . The quotes “who’s…
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Now and Then
Thousands of footsteps are going past every minute. The tip-tapping fills the air. The voices fill the short period of rest in-between each foot hitting the ground. The sounds resonate for metres upon metres of this place and start to merge into each other. Walking down the alleys and paths you can hear snatches of…
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Out of the blue poem anthology
This poem is telling a story of a man on the 80th floor of the north tower during 9/11. the poem was written on the 5th anniversary of 9/11 . The north tower was the last tower to fall and the first one that was hit . The extract we are using is towards the…
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Mametz Wood Poem anthology ( not finished )
I am going to start with the historical context of this poem (and biographical information about the poet) .Mametz wood was where a battle or engagement happened during the first Battle of the Somme in 1916 . The 38th welsh division were the division in the British army that fought in this Battle, this battle…