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The step up from GCSE to AS level poetry analaysis can seem daunting. This clearly written 140 page study guide aims to bridge the gap and is written for students taking AS levels in summer 2017. There is now a second edition of this guide. Please scroll down further through the titles so that it comes up. For summer 2018, Edexcel has changed the requirements to 20 set poems and the new guide reflects this. This first edition here includes a detailed analysis of all 28 poems from the Forward Anthology which Edexcel candidates need to study. At AS level, the task centres on two poems from the 28 studied. One, which they choose, and a second one, which you have to select in order to illustrate particular points and comparisons. It is a tall order This guide contains specific instructions on how to do just that. However this book can do more than simply help with revision in the final weeks. Pick up a copy now, in summer and through Autumn, and you will be able to use it as a source of inspiration and fresh thinking right from the start of your course. Just buy the Anthology itself and this book - and read both side by side as you work through your homework assignments. Written by an expert - Gavin is a tutor and also author of many other Gavin's Guide study guides - everything is designed to support your study and exam success. *Gain confidence at how to unpick the language and style contemporary poets choose. -Identify key themes. * Discover how to link two poems together -Improve your essay writing Gavin Smithers is a private tutor working in the Cotswolds. His popular series of Gavin's Guides aims to help you raise your exam grade - and enjoy studying English Literature that bit more.

The step up from GCSE to AS level poetry analaysis can seem daunting. This clearly written 140 page study guide aims to bridge the gap. However, there is now a second edition to this book. Please scroll down further on this list The Edexcel have changed their requirement to 20 poems and the second edition reflects this. This first edition includes a detailed analysis of all 28 poems from the Forward Anthology which Edexcel candidates need to study. This study guide is for students sitting exams in 2017 and 2018. It is designed for students who are either moving straight from GSCE to A level (and thus not sitting AS levels in Year 12) and also for students who have taken AS level in Year 12 and are now preparing for their final A level exams in Year 13. (There is a separate volume for Year 12 AS students. Do not buy both ) At A level, the task centres on comparing a poem from the anthology with an unseen poem which will be given to you at the start of the exam. It is a tall order This guide contains specific instructions on how to react sensibly and effectively when confronted with an unseen poem. It takes the view that, by thoroughly getting under the skin (and into the head) of the writer's of these poems, you will be able to answer your exam question with confidence. Get the book when you begin to study the poems in class and you will be able to use it to support you with homework assignments. Written by an expert - Gavin is a tutor and also author of many other Gavin's Guide study guides - everything is designed to support your study and exam success. *Gain confidence at how to unpick the language and style contemporary poets choose. -Identify key themes. * Discover how to link two poems together -Improve your essay writing Gavin Smithers is a private tutor working in the Cotswolds. His popular series of Gavin's Guides aims to help you raise your exam grade - and enjoy studying English Literature that bit more.

Christina Rossetti was and is a significant poet - the issues she raises and in particular those on gender and equality strike a chord more than a century after her death. If you have been given her selected poems to study for A level - there will be plenty to say. This, like all Gavin's Guides, combines detailed close text analysis with a look at key themes and how to develop your own interpretation skills. Buy this book and inside you will find: * Close text analysis of the 15 poems selected by OCR for A level students in 2019 and beyond * Ideas to stretch your own skills in literature study * Tips on how to write an excellent essay Gavin Smithers is a private tutor who coaches students to A Level and GSCE success. His Gavin's Guides series has now sold above 15,000 copies. Gavin also offers a unique and free service to buyers of this book: should there be further questions you have about the text, simply email Gavin and he will do his best to help.

Understanding "Jerusalem" by Jez Butterworth for A Level Students is a complete study guide, written for students and teachers who are preparing for A level exams in 2018 and subsequent years. This edition has been written to aid both English Literature and Drama & Theatre students with their coursework and final exams. "Jerusalem" is an important modern drama which is being taught for English Literature coursework for the OCR exam board. It is also studied for the AQA Drama and Theatre A level. As far as I am aware, no guide for students of this play has yet been published. What you will find here is a literary analysis which reads the play for meaning. I hope that it will serve a wider purpose, not just in highlighting some of what makes Butterworth's play so impressive, but in helping readers to develop a reading method which can lead us to a reliable interpretation of any literary text. I also hope that the analysis here will help drama studies students to conceptualise the play, as they focus on characterisation as well as plot. A Gavin's Guide is different from other study guides: each one is written as if a personal tutor were coaching you, helping you to outperform your expectations. To date, tens of thousands of Gavin's Guides have been sold and excellent feedback received from pupils, their parents and teachers about the support these concise books give. Look inside this Gavin's Guide to find: * Detailed analysis of the play text * Guide to characters and their motivations * Major themes * Why this play has become a "modern classic" in such a short amount of time. Buy this book and you also receive an additional benefit, free of charge: email Gavin any additional questions on the text and your exam and he will reply with further support.

Philip Larkin (1922-1985) is a significant figure in post- 1900 English and British poetry - and so is a good choice to study at A level. At present, the WJEC exam board offers students Larkin's collection "The Whitsun Weddings" as one half of one of the five paired options for unit 2. The AS/A level qualification requires candidates to analyse one poem in detail, and to write an essay comparing Larkin and the counterpart poetry collection (at present, Carol Ann Duffy's "Mean Time"). Inside this concise, clear study guide you will find a full analysis of all 32 poems. There are also two sample essays, analysing different Larkin poems. The overall aim of my guide is to arm you with a sound analysis of each and every poem in "The Whitsun Weddings". Starting with my analysis, you can then build your own. With the focus on form and structure of the poems; the persona of the narrator; the tone; the language of the poem; and any relevant context there is plenty of advice here. * Bridge the gap between GSCE and A level poetry analysis. * Explore connections between the poems. * Learn how the social context of when Larkin wrote shapes his thinking. * Discover how, by gaining clear understanding and ways to express yourself, you can have the tools needed to raise your exam grade. * Get in contact with the author, if you need further clarity. This is a free email service for buyers of this book. Gavin's Guides are expertly written study guides that have helped thousands of students gain fuller understanding of A level and GCSE set texts. Do see Gavin's Amazon page for more study guides that might help you achieve your very best this summer.

Emily Dickinson is new to the OCR A-level specification. Candidates are expected to demonstrate "critical literary skills"; to show understanding and comment on "the variety of possible interpretations". But, with images of swimming butterflies, loaded guns and narrow fellows that turn out to be snakes, Emily Dickinson can seem daunting. Add in a writer who doesn't do titles or punctuation and where do you begin? Why not start with this short guide. It has been written to help you, the A level student. - Develop a sense of Emily Dickinson's purpose as a poet. - Find connections between the 15 set poems. - Understand key themes. - Stretch your ability to write clear, critically sound essays. - Learn what to leave out. - Answer exam questions with confidence. As one of Gavin's Guide's for A and GCSE level, this short, thoughtful book has two aims - to help you come to admire the author AND raise your exam grade. Gavin's Guides are written by leading private tutors. They understand what a challenge understanding classic and modern literature can be. Each week, they work one-to-one with students and so are experts at unlocking individual potential. Now, in book and e-book, all GCSE and A level students can benefit from their skill at unravelling complex ideas into clear language.

Readers and critics of Edward Thomas' poetry have always faced an intriguing and apparently insoluble question: why did a man, aged, 37, who didn't have to go to war - and who wasn't moved by patriotism or even a belief that wars solved anything - volunteer? And then why did he take the even riskier option of signing up for the Western Front? By close analysis of Edward Thomas' poems ... I believe I have the answer: a Secret Code within his poems, left for us - people who understand the mechanics of his poetry - to discover This short volume publishes this important discovery in time for the centenary of the start of World War 1. The Secret Code adds a new dimension to our understanding of how Edward Thomas viewed his own life and death. This thesis may be of interest to academics, students, historians and the general reader who just wants to enjoy Edward Thomas' work that bit more.

Andrew Marvell. Diplomat. Treaty negotiator. Career politician. Tutor to the children of the rich and famous. Political commentator. Political scientist. Religious thinker. Satirist. Moralist. Oh, and I almost forgot- Poet. As a student, or perhaps a teacher of English Literature, it will be this element of the man that concerns and interests you most. But if, right now, you are feeling as concerned as interested - then take heart: this guide aims to help change all that Because of the line length of particular poems, and because of what may at first seem like challenging word choices, many people come reluctantly to Marvell. It is too difficult; his poems are 'too clever'; they are soaked in obscure literary traditions. It is all too old-hat. But In this short guide I aim to show you that the reverse is true. Marvell can be straightforward and rewarding to read, when we approach him in a disciplined way. The poetry of this clever man is filled with insights into his own times, tempered with irony. Both his insights and his irony are just as relevant to us and our times, too. Like my other Gavin's Guides, this book aims to help you come to admire the author AND raise your exam grade. Right now, Marvell is a chosen text for OCR A-Level. Exam questions ask candidates to compare Marvell with another text. This means you are free to choose which Marvell poems you study. However, examiners have inferred that the shorter, lyrical poems are not enough. So here I tackle some of the big guns The poems under the microscope in this volume are: Tom May's Death An Epitaph upon------ Upon the Death of the Lord Hastings An Elegy upon the Death of My Lord Francis Villiers An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland The First Anniversary of the Government under His Highness the Lord Protector A Poem upon the Death of His Late Highness the Lord Protector Come with me on the journey of exploring Marvell's methods and meanings, and you'll be fascinated, too. The First Anniversary of the Government under His Highness the Lord Protector A Poem upon the Death of His Late Highness the Lord Protector Together with my sections on 'Exam Technique' and 'What makes Marvell such a great poet' these poems will provide enough insight to answer exam questions fully. This is a Gavin's Guide Extra - it is aimed at able pupils and their teachers. About the author: Gavin Smithers is a private tutor, covering the north Cotswolds. He has an English degree from Oxford University and a passion for helping others to discover the joy and satisfaction of great literature. Gavin's Guides are short books packed with insight. Their key aim is to help you raise your grade Books such as this one, which are identified as Gavin's Guides Extra are aimed at the more able student and also at teachers.

This guide has also been written specifically to assist GCSE candidates who are taking the OCR, WJEC, Edexcel and AQA exams. If that's you, then I can show you why I think having The Lord of the Flies as one of your set texts is a bonus. Read my analysis and essay writing tips and get ready to truly understand the hidden meaning of this book. It is not simply a tall tale about small boys lost on an island, but a sustained look at how we - mankind - behave given certain circumstances. I can show you how to write clear, well-structured essays that merit a high grade. Studied the Gavin's Guide way, Lord of the Flies will make you think, yet won't leave you overwhelmed. Interested? All you need is a few clear hours and an open, curious mind. Why a Gavin's Guide? It is likely you have browsed online or gone to a bookshop and discovered that there are a fair few study guides on this book already. Many of them are useful reference points for summaries of the plot and the characters. Few, if any, explain or analyse in as much detail as this guide does how Golding manages and organises our response as we read. Yet, it is understanding this - and being able to communicate that you do to your examiner - that will mean you can achieve your very best. This is a complete guide - it has more than 125 pages. As a private tutor I help individual students improve their grades. Now I would like to extend that support to you With this short guide, available in both book and Kindle formats, I can help you: *Get to grips with the plot * Grasp what motivates the characters to act as they do * Improve your essay technique * Explore key Golding themes, including fear, primitive behaviour, and violence. * Gain confidence for the extract question. *Give your very best under exam conditions. I am also ready to answer any further questions you may have on the text, via my personal email. This is a free service to buyers of my book.

This guide has also been written specifically to assist GCSE candidates who are taking the OCR, WJEC, Edexcel and AQA exams. If that's you, then I can show you why I think having To Kill a Mockingbird as one of your set texts is good news. A clever, yet clear book, the story lends itself well to being unpicked in essays. Read my analysis and essay writing tips and get ready to truly understand what the author wanted to say on racism and prejudice and about how people act when they feel under threat. It is not simply a tale about an innocent man put on trial, but a sustained look at how a community behaves. I can explain why using a child as narrator is a brilliant move, because it strips away adult prejudice to show situations for what they really are. Discover how to write clear, well-structured essays that merit a high grade. Studied the Gavin's Guide way, To Kill a Mockingbird will make you think, yet won't leave you overwhelmed. Interested? All you need is a few clear hours and an open, curious mind. Why a Gavin's Guide? It is likely you have browsed online or gone to a bookshop and discovered that there are a fair few study guides on this book already. Many of them are useful reference points for summaries of the plot and the characters. Few, if any, explain or analyse in as much detail as this guide does how Harper Lee manages and organises our response as we read. Yet, it is understanding this - and being able to communicate that you do to your examiner - that will mean you can achieve your very best. This is a complete guide - it has more than 175 pages. As a private tutor I help individual students improve their grades. Now I would like to extend that support to you With this clear guide, available in both book and Kindle formats, I can help you: *Get to grips with the plot * Grasp what motivates the characters to act as they do * Improve your essay technique * Explore key Harper Lee themes, including racism, aggression, education and class-divide. *Give your very best under exam conditions. I am also ready to answer any further questions you may have on the text, via my personal email. This is a free service to buyers of my book.

Another of Gavin's Guides- study books packed with insight. They aim to help you raise your grade Understanding Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" is a complete study guide and is written for both students aiming to achieve the higher grades, and their teachers, as they prepare for GCSE examinations with any of the UK exam boards in Summer 2019 and beyond.Writes Gavin: "Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" has been a favourite GCSE text for many years. It's easy to see why; it is a novella (a short novel) which the wider reading public all over the world has always appreciated. It captures the warmth of Christmas while it also confronts us with the reality of child poverty, and asks us uncomfortable questions about the gap between the very poor and the better off."Read this guide and you will understand clearly what Dickens wanted to say (and why) when he wrote "A Christmas Carol". It will also help you to improve your essay technique. This Gavin's Guide contains a full analysis of the text; a scene by scene breakdown of the plot; character motives, themes and ideas, plus sample essays. It is written with clarity and enthusiasm by a successful private tutor and author. Gavin's Guides have sold close to 20,000 copies. So why not get a Gavin's Guide on your side for your GSCE this summer? A unique feature of the book is that purchasers can also email Gavin direct with any last minute questions before their exam. Says Gavin: I am a private tutor in Chipping Campden in Gloucestershire. This book was written initially to help my students. In the same way I help them to achieve higher grades, I hope this will help you. And here's an offer and a promise to back that up...........if you have questions and your teachers can't help, e-mail me and I'll write back with answers."