Tutor comments on sample essay 2
This is a good first essay. Its strength lies chiefly in the way you get to grips with the particular details of a good range of poems and thus show yourself closely engaged in the process of reading and making sense of them. This method gives substance to the general comments you make about metaphysical poetry. Whilst your generalisations are largely derived from your secondary reading, particularly of Joan Bennett, you also show independence by challenging Matthew Arnold and by apparently turning Dr Johnson's criticisms against himself.
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