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If you revise 4 poets...

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  • 05-06-2009 5:59pm
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    9wetfckx43j5rg
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    If you revise 4 poets for tomorrow you should be sorted.

    I did 5 out of 7 poets in classes. So if I revise four poets, worst case sernario only one of the four i revised will come up.

    My advice is get four done and your covered


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    kevogy
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    apparently if u do bishop and rich your covered


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    9wetfckx43j5rg
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    They're not actually obliged to put on a woman, they just usually do.


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    Dante
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    I'm stuck with Longley and Keats. *PRAYS*


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    Claypigeon
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    Walcott and Bishop here.


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    sock puppet
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    Using my maths skillz that I got from studying probability there's still a 1.4% chance that none of your poets come up if you only study 4. But I'm only doing Bishop, Walcott and Longley.

    edit: I could probably learn some stuff on one of the others for tomorrow. I might have a look over Rich.


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    9wetfckx43j5rg
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    I didnt do Walcott or Keats and I absoultely hate Bishop so I'm not answering any of them


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    9wetfckx43j5rg
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    Theres only 7 poets on the course, so if I study four one of them has to come up. Sorry about your probaility skills..


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    Kiara.
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    8 poets on the course, 4 come up..

    Supposed to learn 4 to guarantee one comes up,

    But come on you'd have to be SOOOOO unlucky if none of the 4 came up..

    Im doing 4 too :)

    Good luck!


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    pathway33
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    Marilyn Rancid Stringer wrote: »
    If you revise 4 poets for tomorrow you should be sorted.

    I did 5 out of 7 poets in classes. So if I revise four poets, worst case sernario only one of the four i revised will come up.

    My advice is get four done and your covered

    i thought there were 8 poets on the course and they ask 4 in the exam. So strictly speaking if you revise 4, you could be asked the other 4.

    However if you study 4 you should be 'well covered'

    stick with

    walcott
    keats
    bishop
    longley


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    KnifeWRENCH
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    You should revise at least 5. If you revise 4, there's still a chance the other 4 will come up (there are still 8 poets on the course, right?)
    There's usually at least one woman and one Irish poet but it doesn't say anywhere in the curriculum that there has to be.


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    9wetfckx43j5rg
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    Ah yeah my mistake theres 8 on the course.

    Out of intrest, has anyone ever done Larkin? I've never heard of anyone doing him


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    sock puppet
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    Marilyn Rancid Stringer wrote: »
    Theres only 7 poets on the course, so if I study four one of them has to come up. Sorry about your probaility skills..

    No there are 8. Mahon, Montague, Longley, Bishop, Rich, Walcott, Keats and Larkin.


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    OxfordComma
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    Guys, you'll be fine with three poets. Walcott and Keats are more or less guaranteed, and Bishop is highly likely.

    Worst case scenario, they'll give Keats, Walcott, and replace Bishop with Rich or Longley with Montague.

    In all fairness, try to imagine a paper with the following coming up:

    Rich
    Mahon
    Larkin
    Montague

    ... It simply ain't gonna happen.


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    9wetfckx43j5rg
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    I love Mahon :(


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    Homicidal_jesus
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    Marilyn Rancid Stringer wrote: »
    If you revise 4 poets for tomorrow you should be sorted.

    I did 5 out of 7 poets in classes. So if I revise four poets, worst case sernario only one of the four i revised will come up.

    My advice is get four done and your covered
    ya same wit me 2 out of the 4 came up on leaked paper so im still fairly confident about tmrw
    Marilyn Rancid Stringer wrote: »
    I didnt do Walcott or Keats and I absoultely hate Bishop so I'm not answering any of them
    woo a fellow hater of bishop!!!thank you


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    Dante
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    1fahy4 wrote: »
    In all fairness, try to imagine a paper with the following coming up:

    Rich
    Mahon
    Larkin
    Montague

    ... It simply ain't gonna happen.

    I would be fúcked if that happened, I don't know anything about any of them! :S


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    Remmy
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    walcott and bishop im gonna go over rich and see what the story is though.


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    9wetfckx43j5rg
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    woo a fellow hater of bishop!!!thank you[/quote]

    I know shes fecking rubbish!


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    sock puppet
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    Marilyn Rancid Stringer wrote: »
    I love Mahon :(

    Me too. It's a shame he came up last year. But then I also like Longley and Bishop so I might still get to do the essay on a poet I like.
    Homicidal_jesus wrote: »
    woo a fellow hater of bishop!!!thank you

    Bishop's brilliant imo. How could anyone not like Sestina.


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    9wetfckx43j5rg
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    Im gonna do Mahon, Longley, Montague, Rich and probably have to look over Bishop just in case she comes up with the poets i've never done


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    9wetfckx43j5rg
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    sock puppet wrote: »
    Me too. It's a shame he came up last year. But then I also like Longley and Bishop so I might still get to do the essay on a poet I like.



    Bishop's brilliant imo. How could anyone not like Sestina.

    She's talks about fish all the time :L

    It feels like a girl in a poetry classes with a thesraus in hand


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    Davidius
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    I'm pretty much going to have a read over the notes on the 5 poets we studied. I think it'd be great if Montague or Bishop came up seeing as we spent the most amount of time going over their work. Wouldn't mind if Longley came up.

    If Mahon and/or Rich are my only options, this will be me: :(


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    #24
    9wetfckx43j5rg
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    Does anyone else hate the comparative? It just feels like 2000 words of waffle to me


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    Claypigeon
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    Love the way people are studying Rich instead of Bishop now. Hah logic how are ya.


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    9wetfckx43j5rg
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    Claypigeon wrote: »
    Love the way people are studying Rich instead of Bishop now. Hah logic how are ya.

    How did you get on in Geo Clay?


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    KnifeWRENCH
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    Homicidal_jesus wrote: »

    woo a fellow hater of bishop!!!thank you

    I hated studying Bishop aswell. I refused to read "The Fish" because after a few lines it made me zzzzzzz. Luckily she didn't come up in my exam (2007) so I didn't have to answer on her. (Sylvia Plath ftw!)


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    smndly
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    Prescribed poetry is only 12.5% of ur total grade. So if the s*** hits the fan and ur poets dont come up you hopefully should be able to get 40-50% in the question anyway just from doing the poet in class so you'll only lose out on 7-8%.


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    QueenOfLeon
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    Knife-WREEENCH wrote: »
    I hated studying Bishop aswell. I refused to read "The Fish" because after a few lines it made me zzzzzzz. Luckily she didn't come up in my exam (2007) so I didn't have to answer on her. (Sylvia Plath ftw!)

    Ive just gone over Bishop as a backup, Longley and Walcott being the ones Im looking for. But i think if i have to write about someones absolute respect for a fish, i will burst out laughing and into tears at the same time :p


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    Homicidal_jesus
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    sock puppet wrote: »
    Me too. It's a shame he came up last year. But then I also like Longley and Bishop so I might still get to do the essay on a poet I like.



    Bishop's brilliant imo. How could anyone not like Sestina.

    The poem that throws be off her entirely is Questions Of Travel cant stand it!!!


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    sock puppet
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    Looks like I'm the only one who likes her.:(


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