No Fcuking Boland!!!

whelpy

Ammm, i was one of those people who only knew one poet

Kavanagh:D

Mebbie

Learned Boland,Rich,Yeats,Kavanagh
Probabley knew Boland best,
But got a good four pages out of Rich,
Pretty Happy

DOC09UNAM

Finical wrote: »

Sorry had to be done, but seriously everyone should have done the two women at least.

I've been trying to do two women for years, and it's never worked yet.


That said, It's not exactly a great "TEST" of your knowledge if you know exactly what's going to come up for everything, otherwise they'd let you take the books in...

I thought it was fairly obvious that she wasn't coming up since the government is giving out about the inflation of grades and whatnot.

stevenfinnegan

Well I was kinda laughing to myself when Boland didn't come up!
Especially after everyone depending on her to come up.
Well at least LC 2011 students can be guaranteed that Boland will be coming up!

I learned Kavanagh, Boland, Longley and Rich.
So I was delighted when I saw Kavanagh's name on the paper! So I got 4 good pages wrote on him

RyanK

stevenfinnegan wrote: »

Well at least LC 2011 students can be guaranteed that Boland will be coming up!

That's what they said last year about 2010.

pathway33

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2010/0610/breaking62.html

seanbmc

Woooo Yeats, pleased with my 4 and a half pages on him

flyswatter

Studied Yeats and Kavanagh and they both came up. Thought I was taking a risk!

Da Shins Kelly

Yeats, the sexy ****er. Love that guy.

brianw1

feel sorry for the guys that were caught out, hard luck

our english teacher had been predicting eliot all year and we did all his material inside out

it wasnt very smart going in with only 1 poet learned anyway , even i had 2 backups

Jack Leahy

''In the room the students come and go/
thinking that Boland is all you need to know''

Spent all year doing my 6 poets well, had all 4 today. No sympathy, live by the sword, die by the sword!

Besides, she's not really a poet so just doing her doesn't count :P

zam

Harsh words Leahy!

randylonghorn

DOC09UNAM wrote: »

I've been trying to do two women for years, and it's never worked yet.

That was quite good, it didn't get the appreciation it deserved!!

stevenfinnegan wrote: »

Well at least LC 2011 students can be guaranteed that Boland will be coming up!

No, they can't!

lc2010

Jack Leahy wrote: »

''In the room the students come and go/
thinking that Boland is all you need to know''

Spent all year doing my 6 poets well, had all 4 today. No sympathy, live by the sword, die by the sword!

Besides, she's not really a poet so just doing her doesn't count :P

Well I studied two, had one today with the easiest question ever so I say I lived by the sord!! :cool::D:p
Although I do have some sympathy for tose of you who only did Boland, I would have been sick if Rich hadn't appeared!!!:o

Jack Leahy

lc2010 wrote: »

Well I studied two, had one today with the easiest question ever so I say I lived by the sord!! :cool::D:p
Although I do have some sympathy for tose of you who only did Boland, I would have been sick if Rich hadn't appeared!!!:o

At least you bothered doing the two! Well done

WallyGUFC

I just laughed. I did my 5 poets vaguely. There was only ever 1 way to be 100% safe...by doing 5. Anyone who JUST did Boland, it's completely yeer own fault!:D

anothernight

Jack Leahy wrote: »

''In the room the students come and go/
thinking that Boland is all you need to know''

Spent all year doing my 6 poets well, had all 4 today. No sympathy, live by the sword, die by the sword!

Besides, she's not really a poet so just doing her doesn't count :P

So... why didn't you do your 8 poets?

Glad to know I'm not the only one who doesn't see Boland as a real poet!

Jack Leahy

anothernight wrote: »

So... why didn't you do your 8 poets?

Glad to know I'm not the only one who doesn't see Boland as a real poet!

Our teacher didn't do her or Walcott...

''Pomegranate:
the French sound for apple and
the noise of stone

"

What a woman

anothernight

Jack Leahy wrote: »

Our teacher didn't do her or Walcott...

''Pomegranate:
the French sound for apple and
the noise of stone

"

What a woman

Haha we thought of the same quote! Also "and the proof (...insert blabber here) a child can be hungry"
Ugh... No more English ever again ^^

0.M.GXX

I LOVE ELIOT.....LEDGEND... he is some man for coming up...:)

soccymonster

stevenfinnegan wrote: »

Especially after everyone depending on her to come up.
Well at least LC 2011 students can be guaranteed that Boland will be coming up!

i wanted rich for next year

zoom!

I feel really bad for you guys. I got lucky but I'm banking on predictions for my geog tomorrow. Hopefully things will go better for me and others who barely know the course. And besides, so many people have done the Boland risk that they are bound to bring the marks up.

metalfest

:cool: hahahaha ahhhhh eliot

JellyBeans92

All I can say is if your going to take the female poet shortcut, you should have known better than to shortcut the shortcut, would learning a whole 2 poets have killed you.. honestly like?.

Personally I backed Rich all along (Legit) because she was the curveball on last years paper, which was cancelled because of the leak (which EVERYONE knows), I nearly put money on them pulling a double-whammy stunt like this.. All I can say is the SEC are a bunch of cute auld beggars!?

In the end though I chose the Eliot question, the troubled character to end all troubled characters!? Though I only covered 5 poets in class, four of which came up!?. (Boland being my fifth!?)

The lesson to be learned from this year if anything is that the SEC WILL screw people over, so don't get caught out, and NEVER, and I mean EVER try to take shortcuts on shortcuts

Also, calm down, if you failed all the poetry, you can still get a high B maybe even an A

cailin_donn

TS Eliot is actually my hero.

Love you, Thomas Stearns!

Got something like 46/50 or 48/50 in my mock Eliot Q so don't fail me now!

Professional Griefer

Ah sure screw it. Theres no point in looking back over it any more. Time to concentrate on all the rest of our exams.

To hell with English forever, hopefully

FridaysWell

No Boland???

I joke....

'Twas a crime that she didn't appear!


G'wan Kavanagh

Lukker-

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=134015636610994&ref=mf

bubblz

Mau5 wrote: »

Learned Yeats and Boland.
Shocked when I saw Rich!
Yeats question couldnt have been much better tho, pretty much just a personal response:)

i didnt write a "personal" response cause they just asked for response? will this really matter? one of my friends wrote a personal response to a poet in the mock and the examiner said she didnt answer the question properly because it wasnt a personal response question...

dannye92

Bob the Builder wrote: »

Agreed. I'd feel a lot more sympathy for those who studied Longley and Boland.

You are expected to know at least five poets from the paper. If you do one, you have to face the consequences.

I did that..
wrote half a page on yeats..made up a few quotes too!!

thank God the other 2 questions were easy

Jamiekelly

I kept telling ye yeats would come up. And such an easy question.
But the King Lear question :eek: they really got us good on that one.
I spinned the "honour and loyalty triumphs over brutality and viciousness" into an essay about Lear himself. Saying he began the play as a brutal, egotisctical and vicious man but by the end of the play loyalty and honour triumphed over them lol. As for the poetry my teacher predicted them all perfect. We learned everyone that was on the paper and Boland just to be safe. Hope ye did good in it. Finally glad to get English out of the way.

Shanotheslayer

Jamiekelly wrote: »

I spinned the "honour and loyalty triumphs over brutality and viciousness" into an essay about Lear himself. Saying he began the play as a brutal, egotisctical and vicious man but by the end of the play loyalty and honour triumphed over them

Fair play, I spinned it to sibling rivalry

lovelabel

G'wan Kavanagh [/QUOTE]


Kavanagh ftw! delighted!

lovelabel

Shanotheslayer wrote: »

Fair play, I spinned it to sibling rivalry

as did i! sweeeeet

EuropeanSon

Did Kavanagh, Yeats, Walcott, Boland and Rich. Answered on Kavanagh. Beautiful question.

cedomination

I thought the King lear question was simple, it was basically just good vs. evil.

bubblz

i couldn't belive how nice the lear questions were...basically 2 questions on good vs evil.!
i was delighted when yeats came up but no thinkin that i messed up a few of my quotes.. my arm is actually killing me how sore it was from all the writing :L

Shona R

When boland didnt come up i think i died a little inside lol..

BUT....i wrote a little note to the examiner saying sorry and wrote her anyways lol...an excellent 5 pg essay on Eavan Boland LOL....

No marks for me..

Victoria.

Shanotheslayer wrote: »

Fair play, I spinned it to sibling rivalry

So did I. Bit of sub plot, Lear himself and good vs evil.

Jamiekelly

Just noticed that there was quite a few people taking the honours paper. Well done. Honours English isn't hard. It's just something that takes time to get into. Some lads in my class dropped down to ordinary on the day. I could never go to ordinary English after doing honours for 5 years.

gaffocarl

yeah but if ALOT of people were relying on boland.. and they answered the other questions bad.. the marking scheme should be easier to get marks in because everyone answered it so bad!

LeeLeepet

i had the most B*tching essay Boland ever had written about her ever - i was so proud of it. got to use it in mocks - yay! but on the day just did yeats.

see i just knew ALL my poets lol. didn't do kavanagh coz i just wouldn't please him. he annoys me...one of the biggest whingers ont he course.

but dont have to care about them anymore!

slasher_65

LeeLeepet wrote: »

i had the most B*tching essay Boland ever had written about her ever - i was so proud of it. got to use it in mocks - yay! but on the day just did yeats.

see i just knew ALL my poets lol. didn't do kavanagh coz i just wouldn't please him. he annoys me...one of the biggest whingers ont he course.

but dont have to care about them anymore!

I was warned that if I did Kavanagh, it would be far too hard for me to pretend that I liked him, and would take too much time. So I did Eliot!

EuropeanSon

I like Kavanagh. A bit arrogant, but his style of writing is lovely, and his sonnets are fantastic.

bubblz

i answered on yeats but i didnt answer in a personal response because i wasnt asked to.... will this matter? in the mocks one of my friends answered a q on poetry in a personal response nd she was docked marks cause she wasnt answering the q properly as i just said give a response?