Difference between form and structure

Always a tricky one, but it is essential that you are clear for your examination. Here is AQA's advice:

Form relates to the external shape of a text, determined by how it is presented on
paper, organised by stanzas/paragraphs, lines, syllables, rhyme, justification – best
thought of as a silhouette. It is a simpler thing to comment on because it is usually
visible.
Structure is more interesting because it goes beyond the visible – it is a matter of
the internal development and relationship between parts: structure is about the
internal skeleton and organs – best thought of as an X ray or CT scan, displaying the
organic relationship between ideas, feelings and attitudes within a text.
For example, the form of a sonnet is its 14 line length, its 8 line/6 line division and
its rhyme scheme. Within that form the structure may be 8 lines of description
leading to 6 lines of reflection, generalisation, resolution; or the mood may go from
neutral to sombre, or from sombre and resentful to acceptant.

Creative Writing Competition

Feeling creative? What about entering AQA's Creative Writing Competition at http://web.aqa.org.uk/becreative/about.php. Closing date 28th Feb 2013.

Bloody Poetry!

A must-listen this week is Radio 4's 'The Gothic Imagination: Bloody Poetry' about Byron, Shelley, Mary Shelley and the creation of Frankenstein. here's the link: Bloody Poetry

Use the Library!

Mrs Murray has been busy sorting out the Library, and she has kindly come up with some more Wider Reading suggestions that you can borrow:

Tender Is The Night - F Scott Fitzgerald (1934)
The Beautiful and damned - F Scott Fitzgerald (1922)

The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton (1920)

First Love and Other Stories - Ivan Turgenev (1860)

Watch Antony and Cleopatra

Antony and Cleopatra at the BBC, Act 1.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XlOrRFpOlM

Course work reading suggestions

Love and Marriage:

The Franklin's Tale Chaucer

Sense and sensibility by Jane Austin

Written on the body Jeanette Winterson

Sexing the Cherry Jeanette Winterson

The World's Wife  Carol Ann Duffy

Feminine Gospels Carol Ann Duffy

The Bloody Chamber  Angela Carter

Tess of the D'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy 

Portrait of a Lady  Henry James

The Great Gatsby  F. Scott Fitzgerald

Streetcar named Desire Tennessee Williams

Love Poems by Brian Pattern

Atonement  Ian McEwan

The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison

Beloved Toni Morrison

The Color Purple  Alice Walker

Possessing the secret of Joy

The Heart of the Matter  Graham Greene

Representations of women/ gender:

All of the above

Orlando Virginia Woolf

The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

Top Girls Caryl Churchill

Dancing at Lughnasa Brian Friel

Post-colonial:

Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rees

Anna Karenina

We're going to see the latest film version of 'Anna Karenina' next week. Let's read Tolstoy's novel, too, to see how we think the director did!