Great Lines: Alexandre Dumas
True freedom is believing what is truly right, will be.
Read MoreGreat Lines: Rudyard Kipling
Kipling suggests the ideal mindset of a champion.
Read MoreGreat Lines: Sylvia Plath
Plath imagines female choice as a fig tree.
Read MoreGreat Lines: Antony and Cleopatra
As Shakespeare reimagined, in refusing to be mastered, Cleopatra mastered herself.
Read MoreGreat Lines: Emily Brontë
Emily Brontë captures the wondrous transience of the bluebell.
Read MoreGreat Lines: Hamlet
The phrase ‘To be, or not to be’ combines devices to pose the quintessential, existential question.
Read MoreGreat Lines: William Carlos Williams
‘The Red Wheelbarrow’ comprises a mere four lines which carry a weight of meaning.
Read MoreGreat Lines: TS Eliot
TS Eliot’s The Waste Land is 100 years old—and oddly relevant still, in our perplexing post-industrial age.
Read More'Spring Tiredness': It's a Thing
The spring is commonly known to elicit a lethargic and even melancholic response, as the German word articulates.
Read MoreMore Great Lines: William Wordsworth
Wordsworth personifies daffodils as a ‘golden’, ‘dancing’ multitude.
Read MoreGreat Lines: F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Beautiful and Damned (1922) prefigures the grand, flowing movements of the Gatsby narrative.
Read MoreGreat Lines: Ted Hughes
A small, white, mighty sign that life begins again.
Read MoreThe Joy of Repetition
The joy comes from observing the pattern as it becomes increasingly meaningful to us.
Read MoreHow to Make Your Speech a Moment
A momentous speech is one which makes the moment of its delivery a historic one.
Read MoreWhat Makes Christmas Songs So Pleasing
Christmas songs are an excellent example of euphony at work.
Read More24 Persuasive Devices to Optimise Your Speech
Give the gift of rhetorical force in your speech.
Read MoreWhat is Rhetorical Language?
Rhetorical language is outstanding language used to impress an audience.
Read MoreEmail Sign-Offs: A Working Guide
A working guide to the top email sign-offs currently in use.
Read MoreGreat Lines: Norman Maclean
In a verbal tribute to the primacy of nature, as the foundation of all existence, Maclean describes the world at the beginning and end of time
Read MoreNature in Action
The liveliness of my Y7s transformed into calm effort, and exploded again with energy - that was their nature in action.
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