I'm struggling to find the type of poetry "Snow" is. I know that Shakespeare's type of poetry was written in iambic pentameter. So far, I've read that the poem "Snow" has a rough meter, and since that wasn't enough, I tried finding it myself, but I'm really struggling. The link to the poem is: ...

Sorry if this a fussy question, but in teaching Araby I have found that there is an inconsistency between editions that must be a typo, but I can't figure out which version is correct. Just after the narrator reminds his uncle about giving him money for the bazaar, he says "I felt the house in ba...

I came across this following sentence in H. G. Wells' Kipps and I don't understand what it means. What he put into Kipps was chiefly bread and margarine, infusions of chicory and tea-dust, colonial meat by contract at threepence a pound, potatoes by the sack, and watered beer. I get the ...

When someone is awarded the Nobel prize, the Nobel committee always gives a short description of their achievement. This year, two prizes were awarded (for 2019 and 2018): Peter Handke “for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity...

In terms of magical brilliance and personal traits, it was Hermione who was the closest to the main hero Harry Potter, and therefore was the most suited to have him as her spouse. A timid Ronald was a world behind the brilliant Hermione and the two hardly had anything in common. So what made Rowl...