{"id":198,"date":"2017-01-22T22:24:55","date_gmt":"2017-01-22T22:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gillianclarke.co.uk\/gc2017\/?page_id=198"},"modified":"2018-08-19T18:08:03","modified_gmt":"2018-08-19T17:08:03","slug":"for-students","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.gillianclarke.co.uk\/gc2017\/for-students\/","title":{"rendered":"For Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Message for Teachers and students (and all poetry readers!) from Gillian Clarke<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Students tell me they find this web site useful.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Hi there, I got my GCSE results today, and I&#8217;d just like to thank you for this website, which helped me greatly. The day before my English Lit. exam, I found it and it really changed and improved my view of how to analyse and write about poetry; but most importantly, it made me much more relaxed about approaching it and generally happier about doing the exam, as well as more informed about poetic techniques etc. Anyway, I got an A*, so I&#8217;d just like to thank you for helping me achieve that.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>It makes it all worthwhile!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gillianclarke.co.uk\/gc2017\/exam-tips\/\">Exam Tips<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gillianclarke.co.uk\/gc2017\/dear-students\/\">Letter<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gillianclarke.co.uk\/gc2017\/resources\/\">Resources<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gillianclarke.co.uk\/gc2017\/language-of-poetry\/\">Alliteration A to Z:<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gillianclarke.co.uk\/gc2017\/language-of-poetry\/\">Language of Poetry<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gillianclarke.co.uk\/gc2017\/211-2\/\">Alliteration<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gillianclarke.co.uk\/gc2017\/assonance\/\">Assonance<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gillianclarke.co.uk\/gc2017\/enjambment\/\">Enjambment<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gillianclarke.co.uk\/gc2017\/iambic-pentameter\/\">Iambic Pentameter<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gillianclarke.co.uk\/gc2017\/lineation\/\">Lineation<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gillianclarke.co.uk\/gc2017\/metaphor\/\">Metaphor<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gillianclarke.co.uk\/gc2017\/onomatopoeia\/\">Onomatopoeia<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gillianclarke.co.uk\/gc2017\/rhyme\/\">Rhyme<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gillianclarke.co.uk\/gc2017\/rhythm\/\">Rhythm<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gillianclarke.co.uk\/gc2017\/simile\/\">Simile<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gillianclarke.co.uk\/gc2017\/the-sonnet\/\">Sonnet<\/a><br \/>\nSyllables<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Message for Teachers and students (and all poetry readers!) from Gillian Clarke Students tell me they find this web site useful. &#8220;Hi there, I got my GCSE results today, and I&#8217;d just like to thank you for this website, which helped me greatly. The day before my English Lit. exam, I found it and&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gillianclarke.co.uk\/gc2017\/for-students\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">For Students<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\" aria-hidden=\"true\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-198","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P8lhFD-3c","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gillianclarke.co.uk\/gc2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gillianclarke.co.uk\/gc2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gillianclarke.co.uk\/gc2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gillianclarke.co.uk\/gc2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gillianclarke.co.uk\/gc2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.gillianclarke.co.uk\/gc2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":624,"href":"http:\/\/www.gillianclarke.co.uk\/gc2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/198\/revisions\/624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gillianclarke.co.uk\/gc2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}