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Leaving Cert Poetry

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  • 29-05-2010 5:35pm
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    Da Shins Kelly
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    What poets are people studying? I'm going for Kavanagh, Yeats and Longley.


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    ciano1
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    Da Shins Kelly wrote: »
    What poets are people studying? I'm going for Kavanagh, Yeats and Longley.

    Same


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    Conor108
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    Boland, Yeats, Kavanagh.


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    janey166
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    Ok, well you're all wrong there. I'd defiantely go with Rich, Boland and Keats, cos there dead certs. But of course there'll be an Irish poet, I'd go with Kavanagh, but it will be hard to get the marks because every idiot with a pen will answer on him, seeing as he's quite easy. What you need to is relax and hope for the best and hopefully you'll get a decent grade, that's what I did for the mocks, and I got an A2, but that was mainly down to my excellent writing on paper one and my Lear essay, which I got full marks in both.


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    janey166 wrote: »
    Ok, well you're all wrong there. I'd defiantely go with Rich, Boland and Keats, cos there dead certs. But of course there'll be an Irish poet, I'd go with Kavanagh, but it will be hard to get the marks because every idiot with a pen will answer on him, seeing as he's quite easy. What you need to is relax and hope for the best and hopefully you'll get a decent grade, that's what I did for the mocks, and I got an A2, but that was mainly down to my excellent writing on paper one and my Lear essay, which I got full marks in both.
    Keats was up last year, and Rich in 2008...

    It doesn't matter how many people answer a particular question. You are marked on your answer alone, not against anyone else's. If anything questions on popular poets are often made quite difficult, so it's not like because he's seen to be 'easy' that everyone will do well on that question.


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    ciano1
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    janey166 wrote: »
    Ok, well you're all wrong there. I'd defiantely go with Rich, Boland and Keats, cos there dead certs. But of course there'll be an Irish poet, I'd go with Kavanagh, but it will be hard to get the marks because every idiot with a pen will answer on him, seeing as he's quite easy. What you need to is relax and hope for the best and hopefully you'll get a decent grade, that's what I did for the mocks, and I got an A2, but that was mainly down to my excellent writing on paper one and my Lear essay, which I got full marks in both.

    Why Keats? he came up last year


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    zam
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    You're all cutting it a bit fine. What if one of your poets doesn't come up? :P


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    Victoria.
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    I have done Eliot, Yeats, Longley, Kavanagh, Walcott.

    Hopefully I will have a few to pick from.


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    Sir123
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    Kavanagh hasn't come up in a while so it's a good possibility that he'll come this year or next year


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    anothernight
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    Doing Yeats, Longley, Kavanagh, Boland (whom I hate) and Walcott myself, in order of more in depth-less in depth, though I know all of them pretty well anyway.


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