What lit did you love (and hate) in English class?

John

r3nu4l wrote:

Yes but Oscar Wilde was a gay Irishman :eek: so I could see the Church saying "Down with this sort of thing!", "Careful now".

The church don't set the papers though, this isn't 1956. I don't know why he's on the course, you'd have to contact the department.

MrJones

liked othello, merchant of venice, juno and the peacock. silas marner was ok.

cinnamon

nollaig wrote:

Hated Death of a Salesman! Pure & Utter ****e, nothing else!

Death of a Salesman is a work of genius.
I don't think you 'got' what the play was about. I absolutely love it - the symbolism, the characterisation, the attack on capitalism.
I think you just need to peel back the layers and don't take it at face value

John

cinnamon wrote:

Death of a Salesman is a work of genius.
I don't think you 'got' what the play was about. I absolutely love it - the symbolism, the characterisation, the attack on capitalism.
I think you just need to peel back the layers and don't take it at face value

Don't assume that because someone doesn't like a piece of art that they don't understand it.

cinnamon

John2 wrote:

Don't assume that because someone doesn't like a piece of art that they don't understand it.

I am assuming by calling a book (in this case a play) "utter sh!te" means they didnt give it much time. It's fine to dislike a piece of art, but you can't write "utter sh!te" on an exam paper! I need more of an argument than that!

I was merely trying to enlighten the reader to the play's virtue.

r3nu4l

How about 'total and utter sh!te'?

NAh, only kidding, liked Death of a Salesman myself but didn't do it in school so didn't mention it previously.

Faerie

Well it was just last week so it shouldn't be too hard to remember!
Loved: Lear, Plath, Eliot, Pride and Prejudice, Goodnight Mr Tom.
Liked: The Field & Sive, Longley
Hated: Yeats, Juno and the paycock, Big Maggie, The Country Girls, Of Mice and Men

I think there's way too much emphasis on having to do IRISH writers.

NADA

John2 wrote:

Yes that's exactly why he's not put on the course and Shakespeare and Elizabeth Bishop were put on the course. :rolleyes:

Liked:

• Juno and the Paycock
• Of Mice and Men
• The Field

Detested:

• King Lear
• How Many Miles to Babylon
• Plath
• Bishop
• Longley
• Yeats
• Donne

You know I check the Leaving Cert Sylabus on and off and decide not to buy anything listed on it ever. They really took the joy out of reading in my school days. Not out of school long though. Actually not finished the LEaving until monday. That's in 3 days. lol

matrim

Loved
Hamlet
Dickenson (although my teacher didn't really do her poetry)
Goodnight mr Tom

Hated
Words cannot describe how much I hated Emma.
I burned that book after I had finished school.

is_that_so

Loved

Hamlet(Shakespeare in general)
Old Man and the Sea
Animal Farm
Lord of The Flies
Playboy


Hated

Lord Jim

odhran

I loved Hamlet, The Merchant Of Venice, and the poetry of Eliot and Plath. I hated pretty much everything else: The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn, Amongst Women, Juno And The Paycock, Yeats, Boland, Wordsworth and (especially) Kavanagh. The A1 at the end of it all did make it all seem more bearable though

theCzar

is_that_so wrote:

Loved

Hamlet(Shakespeare in general)
Old Man and the Sea
Animal Farm
Lord of The Flies
Playboy


Hated

Lord Jim

Jesus! what a ****ing great set of books for course work! And that's presuming playboy was of the western world variety :eek:

I liked Great Expectations, Lord of the Flies and Death of a Salesman, hated King Lear which I thought was a pile of crap and has left me eternally put off shakespeare.

MrJones

old man and the sea...was it made into a film,,the old man who catches the whale but the effort ends up killing him??

is_that_so wrote:

Loved

Hamlet(Shakespeare in general)
Old Man and the Sea
Animal Farm
Lord of The Flies
Playboy


Hated

Lord Jim

MrJones

great expectations is a great book. i read it myself in my spare time.

theCzar wrote:

Jesus! what a ****ing great set of books for course work! And that's presuming playboy was of the western world variety :eek:

I liked Great Expectations, Lord of the Flies and Death of a Salesman, hated King Lear which I thought was a pile of crap and has left me eternally put off shakespeare.

theCzar

MrJones wrote:

old man and the sea...was it made into a film,,the old man who catches the whale but the effort ends up killing him??

wanna lash spoiler tags around that spoiler?

Pet

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
Cat's Eye
Macbeth
Sylvia Plath (pfffh! to all you haters!)
Emily Dickinson
On the Waterfront
Derek Mahon

</3
Amongst Women (moany, depressing, boring 1960s Catholic Ireland ****e)
Seamus Heaney (yawn)
PATRICK KAVANAGH (whingy, annoying, uninspired drivel from a dirty undersexed old pervert)


Oh, and speaking in more abstract terms, the single biggest irritation of mine was the tendency of some of my classmates to "learn essays" and notes off by heart, instead of actually engaging with the texts. I mean - why bother? They were just making a complete chore out of something which should have been (and was, for me) enjoyable.

I did better than them all anyway, so it all worked out well in the end.

nando

Loved
Romeo&Juliet, Hamlet, To Kill a Mockingbird, Goodnight Mr. Tom, Philadelphia Here I Come, How Many Miles to Babylon?, Emma, The Remains of the Day, Dances With Wolves, Dickinson, Boland, Shakespeare's sonnets.

Hated
The Grass is Singing, Elizabeth Bishop, Keats

Dagnir Glaurung

Loved:
A Doll's House
Great Expectations
Pride and Prejudice
To Kill A Mockingbird
King Lear
T.S. Eliot
G.M. Hopkins

Hated:
I can't remember really disliking anything. Maybe Longley. He bored me a bit.

Tobias Greeshman

Loved:
Hamlet
Emma
Lord of the flies
The great gatsby
Yeats
Kavanagh
Shelley
Keats
T.S. Eliot

Hated:
John Donne
George Herbert