English poets (HL)

colm-ccfc84

spudington16 wrote:

LMAO! Someone needs some research, alright... Surely the fact that he was born in the States and sent back to Garvaghey is fundamental to Montague's poetry???

I certainly would have thought so...

Pure Cork

Frost, Eliot, Kavanagh, Montague, Plath.....leaving out Yeats.

KnifeWRENCH

spudington16 wrote:

LMAO! Someone needs some research, alright... Surely the fact that he was born in the States and sent back to Garvaghey is fundamental to Montague's poetry???

yeah i didnt realise that.....like i said,we didnt study him.
by the way neither of ye actually answered my question: is he considered an irish poet or not???i want to know in case i'll get a bit of a shock when i see neither kavanagh nor yeats,but montague

colm-ccfc84

square_igloo wrote:

yeah i didnt realise that.....like i said,we didnt study him.
by the way neither of ye actually answered my question: is he considered an irish poet or not???i want to know in case i'll get a bit of a shock when i see neither kavanagh nor yeats,but montague

He is considered any Irish poet and he is highly likely.

analyse this

The four poets on the syllabus this year are:

* Elizabeth Bishop
* John Donne
* TS Eliot
* Robert Frost
* Patrick Kavanagh
* John Montague
* Sylvia Plath
* WB Yeats

Oh god...I wish you the best of look in your maths my dear friend:D

Marshy

Marshy wrote:

If I was a betting person I'd say it'd be John Mont, Sylvia "spiralling abyss" Plath, Robbie "ice man" Frost and William Butler Yeats

3 out of 4 aint bad

Corruptedmorals

Heard someone on the radio complaining that no Irish poet came up...and some lecturer/teacher man saying it was hard to know what the theme of Paper 1 was.

'The theme of this paper is CHANGE'. Really hard..

originalcupcake

Montagues Irish....he was born in Brooklyn but hes still Irish because his parents are... or so i presume..??

colm-ccfc84

He is certainly regarded as an Irish poet.