Favourite poet on the english HL course

keenan110

W.B. Yeats

I'm a Kavanagh man myself!

johnmcdnl

John Keats

Slugs wrote: »

Well I think 7 is a bit too much. 6 is the safest bet, because that guarantees you a minimum of 2, but anything less than 6 and you're really trying your luck... o.O

Well i'm execting a woman poet or else the gender equality crowd will be up in arms so that's 2.. pity I'd burn Rich is the only problem but sur... gonna do yeats and kavanagh in case I have to..

but my teacher reckons that doing 2 women and your sound... either that or do all the irish poets because there's surely gonna be an irish poet on an irish leaving cert paper

Slugs

Eavan Boland

Well as I said to myself, there are 4 Irish poets, and two woman poets, one of the 5 of those is bound to come up...

validusername

Eavan Boland

Yeah, Boland and Longley's poetry are easy to write about but I don't their poems. Rather boring to be honest!

I like Keats the best, the themes he discusses and his approach on them are far more interesting compared to the others and he is certainly not at all repetitive...*cough*..Rich.*cough*..

Oh, and I don't like Kavanagh. He complains and loves himself too much. :pac:

OoOROiSiNOoO

John Keats

Yeats!!!!! You could write an essay on one of his poems alone he's so easy to write on

seriousfizz

W.B. Yeats

OoOROiSiNOoO wrote: »

Yeats!!!!! You could write an essay on one of his poems alone he's so easy to write on

Glad to see some of yis are up for Yeats! I agree with what you said there, I've only written on Yeats for the past few English exams, the mocks included, I quite enjoy writing about him myself!

Reckoner91

Michael Longley

T.S. Eliot, because his poems are so long and absolutely filled with amazing language and imagery, its just so relentless, each line is a tiny masterpiece. The stream of consciousness that he uses is so clever and believable, I can't get enough of him.
But STUDYING him...well...that's another story.

juliancallan

Derek Walcott

I'm a fan of Longley but we didn't do him for our course. Damn shame.

Slugs

W.B. Yeats

Slugs wrote: »

Well as I said to myself, there are 4 Irish poets, and two woman poets, one of the 5 of those is bound to come up...

My class have done Kavanagh, Yeats, Longley and Boland. That's all the Irish poets I think, happy days! Doing Eliot too I think...

RoRoCullen

Adrienne Rich

I can't choose between Boland, Longley and Rick! Amazing poets.. I hate Kavanagh and Keats.

JellyBeans92

Michael Longley

I wonder how many people would be saying Boland now?!

**Timbuk2**

It's not Boland's fault that she wasn't on the paper!

JellyBeans92

Michael Longley

**Timbuk2** wrote: »

It's not Boland's fault that she wasn't on the paper!

I know that, but it's still pretty funny, because so many people only seemed to learn her, without learning Rich.. Never try to shortcut a shortcut.

MaggieNF

John Keats

YEATS weirdly enough, his poetry is interesting to read, style is different, causes you to actually think about stuff LOLZ

EuropeanSon

Walcott, by light years.

An extremely distant joint second are Yeats and Kavanagh.

Haven't done Eliot or Keats, but both seem far more interesting than the remainder. Rich is a horribly whiny lesbian bitch. Boland talks and talks and says absolutely nothing, and Longley is just awful.

dee o gee

Adrienne Rich

Never done keats, wallcott or elliot. Rich's poetry is annoying as f*ck but easy enough to write on, Im female so I can add in the 'Im a woman so I can relate to her' line. I like boland but thank god I wasn't one of the ones to only learn her, she's easy to write on, as is kavanagh and sometimes yeats. I never liked longley for some reason.
Still don't know why im still writing in the present as Iv done my last ever poetry essay, and never have to look at rich's horribly feminest poetry again. Unless I repeat that is.

Indigo Sunrise

Michael Longley

Eliot ftw
"let us go then you and I
when the evening is spread out against the sky
like a patient etherized upon a table"

I find the rest very boring though, especially Kavanagh. Walcott seems interesting but I didn't do him.

muffinz

Adrienne Rich

boland. her poems are so easy to understand i love em!

Victoria.

Michael Longley

Eliot
Wrote 8.5 pages on him in the exam.
I love his poetry!

bubblz

W.B. Yeats

this year i can't choose what poet i like the most...maybe kavanagh but its more kavanagh himself i find interesting as opposed to his poetry.. boland is boring ... & i hate eliot...
Last year i loved studying Montague... he was so interesting and his themes ranged from love to the relationships with his parents..

kev9100

Michael Longley

Even though I used to hate him, T.S Eliot will always have a special place in my heart as he came up and his question was lovely.

Joe_Dull

Adrienne Rich

I know she disappointed a nation, but I still love my Boland

Rich, on the other hand, is a creature...

LouiseZ

John Keats

Has to be Yeats!..I HATE RICH...:mad:

wayhey

T.S. Eliot

There's no one I really hate on the course but I find it really hard to write good answers on Boland because (well out of the poems we did) her poems lacked a unifying theme.

Didn't like Rich when we were reading her poems but actually when we finished her up I liked writing about her. I mean, I still slag her off about hating men but I think her poetry is good Sometimes it's a bit in your face too much but for the most part I think she's a good poet and the words she uses, you know they're really carefully chosen because you just can't imagine anything else fitting..and her images are really good. Cos it's semi-modern you can relate to it a little bit more than Yeats or Kavannagh I think. Yeats was alright but I didn't really want to go back over Kavannagh, find his stuff a bit boring and too introspective

Who're the poets for next year? Heard some 5th Years saying that Boland has to come up next year.... don't think they got the point of the message from SEC... :rolleyes:

sabrinaspelman

Boland, Dickinson, Kavanagh, Frost, Hopkins, Wordsworth, Rich and Yeats.
As far I know.