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[atailof2kitties]

(20/2/2020) Finally visited Durham and it’s absolutely gorgeous!

- 🎧 Listening to: Ice Dance by Shirley Walker

- 📖 Currently reading: Contemporary fiction: a very short introduction by Robert Eaglestone

- 📚 Books this year: 12/100

[atailof2kitties]

(10/2/2020) Ahhhh, I’ve been allocated to my preferred Durham college, but I am so stressed! 

- 🎧 Listening to: The Greatest Story Never Told by Murray Gold

- 📖 Currently reading: The Winter’s Tale

- 📚 Books this year: 6/100 (😬)

[atailof2kitties]

What I love about poetry is that it’s so condensed. A novel can go on and on and say everything it wants in as many words as it wants but poetry forces the economising of words. Every word has to matter, every word has to be perfect.

W.B Yeats- ‘When you are old’

[atailof2kitties]

Nearly cried reading this unseen poem in English Lit today. “Dearest dust” is such an aching term of endearment- the superlative, the plosive alliteration with that fatal ‘d’ sound, sudden and jarring like death, the consonance conflating all the adoration of “dearest” with all the despair of “dust”.

[atailof2kitties]

(19/1/2020) Child language acquisition going well 😬

🎧 Listening to: piano concerto No.1 in B-flat minor by Tchaikovsky

📖 Currently reading: The Brickfield by L P Hartley

📚 Books this year: 4/100

[atailof2kitties]

Year 13 is chill for the most part

and then suddenly it’s Friday and your English Literature NEA first draft is due in on Monday, whilst you’ve also got to read A Streetcar Named Desiree, your EPQ presentation is on Wednesday, you need to write your personal statement, you need to reread your other literature texts because you’re starting to forget what actually happened, the Thursday after, your English Language NEA first draft is due and you’re not even sure if your topic’s any good. Your half term would be stress-free but no- that’s for doing your English Literature NEA second draft but you also want to read some gothic literature because you low-key lied about the extent to which you’ve read gothic literature in your personal statement since the texts you’ve read are just all the basic ones, and also you’ve got to read those two books you took out of the library about language and gender and child language acquisition but you’re doing all of this and wow, you have another subject! Sociology, yikes, you realise you can’t remember a single thing you did in year 12 but you’ve also got to listen to those podcasts that help with English language and all the past issues of that subscription your school has to help you out. Your folders all used to be really organised but now you’d be lucky to have a folder and not be living out of your notebooks which isn’t gonna help with revision, let’s be honest- and speaking of revision- your exams are coming up, every day brings them nearer...

[atailof2kitties]

I get my a level results in two hours 🙃

[damiansalevels]

(From my blog 16/06/18 | De mon blog 16/06/18)

Hi everyone!

From Monday onwards, I began my work on my research project for French. I decided to do it on the works of Monet and compare them to Blondel. Also, I am going to compare Neoclasicism to Impressionism, so that I can include it in my research about the artists I have chosen!

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Sault!

À partir de lundi, j'ai débuté mon travail pour mon projet de recherche français. J'ai décidé à fais-le sur des travaux de Monet et Blondel. Aussi, je vais comparer le néoclassicisme à l'impressionnisme, afin que je les puisse intégrer dans mon recherche sur des artistes qui j'ai choisi!