It seems a little unfair to equate Eve with Gertrude who is so strongly told off and used as a synecdoche for the entire female gender by Hamlet in the quotation bastardised above, yet I want to explore the presentation …
Category: Milton
CIE IGCSE Poetry suggestions
A second post relating to the 2015 selection fro Songs of Ourselves. In this post I have commented on Summer Farm, City Planners and Where I come from. There are PowerPoints and a screencast link for Where I come from. …
Paradise Lost ix: literary contexts and thinking points.
A powerpoint to engage with some of the literary contexts of the poem and to encourage class discussion and thought. I have also included a couple of web links, 1 to the York Morality play text dealing with the fall …
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Paradise Lost ix, ll 679 ff Satan’s seduction
A short powerpoint to breakdown Satan's seduction into manageable and useful sections. For use with the synopsis and sound files already blogged. satan's seduction ppt Also, an OCR teaching pack which might be useful: paradise-lost-pack Read More "Paradise Lost ix, …
PARADISE LOST book ix. A synopsis.
Section 1 1-99 The book opens with an invocation to Milton’s muse in the style of all great epics from Homer to Dante. He begs for help as he needs to turn his tale to tragedy and away from the …
Paradise Lost Introduction Ppt
I hope to screencast this introduction shortly. In the meantime it gives the bare bones of an introduction for A2 students who will be expected to undertake an amount of preparatory research. milton-paradise-lost-intro A screencast can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvKdgCklsnU&feature=youtu.be …
Paradise Lost IX: sound files
"Milton is a poet who must be read aloud" Discuss and illustrate this debate... http://www.utexas.edu/features/2010/03/08/milton_whitman/ As a support for A level students reading Paradise Lost, I am going to record a sound version of the text and post it here. …