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...phrase was, “Let’s make Athens great again!” Compounding the blunder When Nicias realized he was likely to lose the debate, he made his second big blunder. He recommended the assembly mobilize Athens’ full military resources. He was gambling on the hope that this would cause the voters to back off. Instead, his speech had the opposite effect. The Athenians became...

...phrases and rhythms, and work as a collector, adaptor and writer of Scottish song. If Scots felt alienated within the Union in which England was politically and culturally dominant, Burns offered Scots a sense of pride and self-respect that in turn fueled the emerging Home Rule movement. Today and over this week nationalists will claim Burns as their own. But by judicious...

...type of playwright does take great pleasure in going to an office and listening to what the buzzwords are in offices this year, because that changes from year to year, management speak, the kind of words that politicians are using this year, the kind of words that school kids are using this year. Every job, every profession, every social class has its own vocabulary, and...

...phrase he says something that I think is often forgotten today: ‘poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings; it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity’ (my italics) (ibid., p. 95, ll.557–8). Notice the significant time lapse implied there – the idea that, however powerful or spontaneous the emotion, it needs to be carefully...

...type of narrative perspective is used here? Do you find anything immediately striking about the voice of the narrator? How does the narrative perspective change in this extract? What impression of London is given in this section? How does Selvon develop the character of Moses? Discussion I hope you recognised this extract as an example of third-person narration. The first...