Dubliners and Blake worksheets

If you are teaching or revising the Dubliners short story collection, by James Joyce, or William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience, help is at hand. Launched today are handy worksheets setting questions to work through on each text.

Deceptively simple, it is sometimes hard to know what to write about the Songs of Innocence and Experience. Every Crossref-it.info worksheet directs students to investigate:

• First impressions
• Language and tone
• Structure and versification
• Imagery and symbolism
• Themes.

Students revising the poems can not only refresh their memories and fill up important gaps in their notes, but also see how the texts interrelate.

Meanwhile, for helpful explanations and detailed contextual information, make sure you visit the Crossref-it.info site at:

• http://crossref-it.info/textguide/dubliners/38/0 for help with Joyce’s short stories
• http://crossref-it.info/textguide/songs-of-innocence-and-experience/13/0 to help you get a handle on Blake’s world.

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