Ever heard the saying “the best writers are readers”? The first step to writing a poem is figuring out what you like about poetry. Is it imagery? Format? Rhyme? Start by sampling a few poets.

Imagine that your class had been studying William Shakespeare’s famous poem ‘Sonnet 18’ as a National 5 Critical Essay text. For an essay question on theme, you could write this basic introd ...

After watching Tarkovsky's film "Andrei Rublev" you will write an essay about a symbol used in it. Here is a paragraph about symbols from the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics by Preminger, ...