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...English language, such as articles, pronouns and prepositions. This simple wordlist can act as a springboard for our analysis of the novel. We can, for example, compare the high frequency of man (137 occurrences) and father (134) with the only 24 occurrences of woman and the 33 of mother. This can lead us to formulate hypotheses on how gender is represented within the...

...English is known as the iamb, which is an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one (x /). Many words in English are iambic: a simple example is the word ‘forgot’. When we say this, the stresses naturally fall in the sequence: Iambic rhythm is in fact the basic sound pattern in ordinary English speech. If you say the following line aloud you will hear what I...

...English and the music scores of four of the song settings, on the home page of the course. You are not expected to be able to read the music, but even if you are not very familiar with musical notation, you may well find the scores useful in identifying what is happening in the songs...This free course, Schubert's Lieder: Settings of Goethe's poems, looks at the short...

...Englishness and patriotism had reached breaking point. They contain traces of the experiences in the trenches that marked both Milne and Shepard, whose illustrations of carnage at the Somme and Paschendale were the subject of a separate recent exhibition. The pastoral paradise of Hundred Acre Wood was one that Milne, who wrote passionately in favour of pacifism, conjured...