Sample GCSE English Literature poetry essay.
False Friars are the prime antagonists in Piers Plowman. The poem points out repeatedly how corrupt friars are letting Christendom down through their selfish attention to financial gain. Both Miss Money and the Seven Deadly Sins corrupt friars quickly.
Analysis of “Filling Station” by Elizabeth Bishop makes for an excellent sample poetry analysis essay. The title, speaker, setting, length, and level of formality of the essay have all been designed to deliver the point home by giving a clear descriptive image of the filling station and how it reflects human beings.
The Plowman was the most recognizable medieval symbol of the poor and was associated with great virtue, especially after Chaucer's contemporary, William Langland, wrote a long poem entitled Piers Plowman, about a Christ-like, hard-working plowman who must save his society from the consequences of their sinful lives.
Analysis of “One Art” The opening stanza of Elizabeth Bishops’“One Art”reveals the clear statement of the poem; the struggle with mastering the issue of loss. Bishop uses the significance of structure and word choice to further the meaning of the poem.
Here are two exemplar unseen poetry essays, at GCSE standard, based upon Section C of the AQA English Literature Exam (June 2017). The poems written about are Alan Bold's 'Autumn' and Billy Collins' 'Today' and attained full marks. The essays were written by a student (aged 16) in exam conditions, taking approximately 50-55 minutes to complete.
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Part of what makes Piers Plowman so important (and sometimes difficult to understand) is the way that it encapsulates and responds to nearly every element of life in mid- to late-fourteenth century England. The poem was penned in the years following the Great Plague of 1348-1349, during the reigns of Edward III and Richard II and in the midst of the Hundred Years’ War, a century-long.