This essay demonstrates some very thoughtful and original responses to the two texts. You also show strong command of your written expression. Your ideas are expressed with clarity and in a logically organised way. You have taken the initiative to draw some thoughtful conclusions and at times you have successfully connected your ideas to quotations to the language within the quotations. This process of zeroing in on specifics to prove a broader point is perfect for a literary analytical essay.

To develop your work further you may wish to:

Test some of your more thoughtful conclusions in discussion with me, or your peers, before you commit to them in an assessment – the idea about being able to tell the gender of the writer is an interesting one, but would need a much greater detail to support it before it would convince the reader.

Explore a wider range of quotations and examples in both texts – looking at language, story, character, historical context, authorial point of view and theme.

In respect of the poetry, developing a conclusion about what the poem’s message is, and how the language devices you’ve identified reveal and develop this message.

In the case of this essay question, make clearer links between language and emotion – much like you did when referring to the percussive tempo in Plath’s “Daddy” (Remember, Katharina also has a father figure)

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