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Poetry section in English.

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  • 03-06-2009 7:43pm
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    debz_x
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    My teacher recommended that we make reference to five poems while discussing a poet,
    but would four, well supported, poems suffice?
    Or is it completely quantity over quality?
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    Overheal
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    You definitely want Quality of Reference. And you want to know what you're on about. You can't just quote and then talk waffle obviously.
    Reverend Lovejoy: Homer, I'd like you to remember Matthew 7:26. "The foolish man who built his house upon the sand."
    Homer: [pointing a finger] And you remember
    [thinks]
    Homer: Matthew... 21:17.
    Reverend Lovejoy: [confused] "And he left them and went out of the city, into Bethany, and he lodged there?"
    Homer: Yeah. Think about it.

    Similarly though you could know one Poem back to front, and if that came up - Great! Win! But if it doesn't - you're fecked. Which is why you need to know several poems quite well to have the greatest probability chance of Top Marks.

    So the hard answer to your question, is Both.

    The more poems you are familiar with of the Poet's, the easier it will be to find the quote or passage that ties in best with the question at hand - bearing in mind, thats how the questions are going to be structured. Its all well and good to know The Fish by heart but it does nothing for you if it turns out you can tie no reference to it in the offered Question.


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