Hi,
I'm currently doing A-level coursework and I'm looking for some poetry recommendations. My essay title is based around 'the search for a spiritual identity' and so far I've chosen two texts...
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Hi,
I'm currently doing A-level coursework and I'm looking for some poetry recommendations. My essay title is based around 'the search for a spiritual identity' and so far I've chosen two texts...
I'm looking for books that either address spiritual crises or are good to read when you're in the middle of one. I'm searching for books with more of a comforting message/resolution, so that rules...
Sunbright burstlike particles
Particular electron, electronic vapour
Sucks vapid ringrolls of tapering
Matter, sheets of sparkbeams,
Silent like time stretched out
To everything, enclosing ...
Thank you for the advice and recommendations.
I saw a 'young adult' book with the title, ''Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You''. I thought it was quite nice.
I second this.
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller.
Everything is Illuminated
Love in the Time of Cholera
The God of Small Things
Brave New World (was this taken from The Tempest?)
At...
I stopped writing these when I started senior school, so I have no idea where (or how) to begin. I'd be grateful for any advice on length, plot/subject matter, pacing etc. My main problem is how to...
I cry all of the time when I read books. Not always proper crying, but definitely eyes-filling-with-tears kind of crying. They don't even have to be sad or moving; most of the time it's caused by...
So...I wrote something. This is rather embarrassing, but it's worth a try. The poem isn't meant to make exact sense, it's supposed to be more of a descriptive thing.
Ice it slips
into a drip of...
I didn't know that. That's very impressive.
Pablo Neruda is fantastic.
The Soviet Union/Stalin poems seem to be of lower quality than his other writing, and I'm sure it's not just because of the subject matter. If they were his earliest...
I'm uncertain about all of these suggestions, but it's worth a try.
Catcher in the Rye, Salinger
The Immoralist, Andre Gide
Notes from Underground, Dostoyevsky
Good list. I've only read about 27 of those books and the rest are ones I've got on my ever-growing 'to read' list. I'm SO glad to see Notes from Underground on there because I often feel it gets...
I was given a short story by an English teacher many years ago. I loved it, but now I've forgotten what it was called and who wrote it. But this is the information I have (or I think I have) about...
''The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new''. Murphy by Samuel Beckett.
I also like Finnegans Wake's opening, ''riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay,...
Thanks for the welcome! Rural-ish means I can see cows and a river from my window, but not the Yorkshire moors Ted Hughes wrote about. Basically, it's a village which isn't too far from a proper town.
My username comes from Finnegans Wake!
My advice would be to break it down into small sections (though I suppose you do that anyway when you read novels), perhaps read a summary before you begin,...
I'm Emily. I live in a rural-ish part of England and when I'm not reading I like music and visiting beautiful places with old architecture. I think that's quite boring for a teenager, but I don't...