The power of rhyme
Rhyme is a powerful device within poetry. It impacts the way you read a poem and adds meaning behind the words a poet writes. The rhymes within a poem can…
Isabel Barratt
Blind in the mind – what it’s like to read with Aphantasia
Blind in the mind – what it’s like to read with Aphantasia. “I describe it thus: think about walking through your house in the middle of the night when all…
Beautiful Books about Elephants
For those who love reading and love elephants – as all the best people do – then the following books might just be the sort of stories you’ll enjoy! Running…
Shakespeare’s sonnets and the complexities of being in love
Originating in 13th century Italy, the sonnet is a 14-line poem typically consisting of 10 beats per line – known as being written in Iambic pentameter. The rhythm of iambic…
The disturbing reality behind the ‘happily ever after’
Tales of beautiful Princesses, of magic and talking animals, of good triumphing over evil – fairy tale stories recounting the wholesome tales of true love and happy endings have been…
Winnie the Pooh: beneath the Hundred Acre Wood.
“When you are a bear of very little brain, and you think of things, you find sometimes that a thing which seemed very thingish inside you is quite different when…
Romeo and Juliet – is it really a love story?
William Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ – perhaps the most well-known love story of all time. A tragic tale of young love, of intense feeling and all-consuming emotion, where the depth…