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him, twitching still, onto my Welcome Mat, flicking him in the ditch across the road. All day, as if in pain, my old cat yowled, glaring at me with flat, accusing eyes. “Our bond,” he seemed to say, ...

It will come as no surprise that a work by Robert Burns has been declared our favourite poem written in Scots. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to ...

He was just an ordinary mouse, nothing special. He lived, very briefly, 237 years ago, in the laboratory of a great chemist, Joseph Priestley. Here he sits, in his cage. There were lots of mice in ...

Narrative means story and a narrative poem tells a story. Lots of poems are mainly about thoughts and feelings and not about telling a story, so this is a key difference. Key features of narrative ...

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