General Smugness and Appreciation for Yeats, Rich, Kavanagh and Eliot.

NufcNavan

WB Yeats: Snappin' necks, and cashin' cheques. Discuss with appropriate references to his works.

hon pa

I love how everyone pretty much has an emotional connection to their poet now! I think I might get a framed picture of Kavanagh for my bedroom wall.

theowen

hon pa wrote: »

I love how everyone pretty much has an emotional connection to their poet now! I think I might get a framed picture of Kavanagh for my bedroom wall.

Rich's sexy face would delight me in the morning, sure:)

Seloth

Go Kavanagh

A girl going for medicine(But is a bitch tbh,but dont wish her any miss givings) learned only Boland...burtst into tears and wrote a pitty note stating how she going for medicine lol and that shes worked hard all year lol

zam

Seloth wrote: »

Go Kavanagh

A girl going for medicine(But is a bitch tbh,but dont wish her any miss givings) learned only Boland...burtst into tears and wrote a pitty note stating how she going for medicine lol and that shes worked hard all year lol

Oh dear... Poor girl, but she could've at least tried to make some kind of an answer on someone else!
I was a nerd and learned 5 poets. Turned out nicely as I had a choice between Rich, Kavanagh, and Yeats. Went for Yeats but I'm kind of regretting it now as everyone did Yeats so I have a feeling I'll be marked harder

theowen

zam wrote: »

Oh dear... Poor girl, but she could've at least tried to make some kind of an answer on someone else!
I was a nerd and learned 5 poets. Turned out nicely as I had a choice between Rich, Kavanagh, and Yeats. Went for Yeats but I'm kind of regretting it now as everyone did Yeats so I have a feeling I'll be marked harder

Me too! AND, I'm repeating so I learned 4 new poets and the one I did, Rich, I'd studied first Leaving Cert round...

freeze4real

My englsh paper was a disater both 1 and 2.
For personal esssay I made up 4 differnt characters about freedom of what it meant to them and I added mine.

For paper 2 I was expecting longley but I did rich. I discussed 6 poems with 3quotes om all except 1.

Shakespeare was out of the blue. I did thr second bit and compared Edgar to edumund with 5 quotes.

I'm thinkin of dong plc courses right now.

CLAIRE_CAT

thank you sweet sweet kavanagh
i think i may just be in love with you right now xxxxx

randylonghorn

Seloth wrote: »

Go Kavanagh

A girl going for medicine(But is a bitch tbh,but dont wish her any miss givings) learned only Boland...burtst into tears and wrote a pitty note stating how she going for medicine lol and that shes worked hard all year lol

If she only prepared one poet, doesn't say much for her analytical skills tbh.

sheep-go-baa

Seloth wrote: »

Go Kavanagh

A girl going for medicine(But is a bitch tbh,but dont wish her any miss givings) learned only Boland...burtst into tears and wrote a pitty note stating how she going for medicine lol and that shes worked hard all year lol

Would it not have been better to have made a half assed attempt at one of them? Even without any quotes :rolleyes:
Although i feel slightly better if this person is my competition for med, petty i know

monaghanmissus

Kavanagh is a babe.

theowen

randylonghorn wrote: »

If she only prepared one poet, doesn't say much for her analytical skills tbh.

What do examiners think when they see a pity note? Would they just ignore it or get a little giggle?

snooleen

I did Yeats in My J.C, most exams I've done, apart from the mocks, and now the actual leaving cert. We've been through a lot together and I am sad to think that our time together is coming to an end...hopefully I'll get to study him in college is I get the points..

WallyGUFC

theowen wrote: »

What do examiners think when they see a pity note? Would they just ignore it or get a little giggle?

I'd say it'd be same reaction as today when many realised Boland wasn't there...ROFL!:D

randylonghorn

Diabhal Beag wrote: »

I did Longley, Kavanagh, Rich and Boland. Saw Kavanagh and was so happy I got a boner legit

So that's where you got your user name!

theowen wrote: »

What do examiners think when they see a pity note? Would they just ignore it or get a little giggle?

Depends on the person I suppose ... but one way or the other, you can't award marks for "the wrong poet came up!!"

FairyWings

Yeats you BABE! I knew Rich would come up the whole fecking country studied Boland. See the facebook groups about here lol:D

IrishKev

hon pa wrote: »

I love how everyone pretty much has an emotional connection to their poet now! I think I might get a framed picture of Kavanagh for my bedroom wall.

Haha yeah and theres people on Boland's Facebook page declaring their everlasting hate for her and calling her a 'fat slag' :rolleyes:

Orlaladuck

Ah now, that would've happened regardless!

metalfest

it really really makes me smile
you know that if Boland came up all the people'd be going yeah I only studied Boland, safe bet hah
well unlucky hahahaha :pac:

Mr Cawley

Seloth wrote: »

Go Kavanagh

A girl going for medicine(But is a bitch tbh,but dont wish her any miss givings) learned only Boland...burtst into tears and wrote a pitty note stating how she going for medicine lol and that shes worked hard all year lol

oh the poor b*tch

Enid.

"I think it might be a good time for me to profess my undying love for Yeats. Seriously, why did he waste his time with Maude Gonne when he could have been with me? Love you Yeatsie poo"

This was my joyous post-exam Facebook status. I got 3 comments saying "Dislike".

Whatevs...

metalfest

Seloth wrote: »

Go Kavanagh

A girl going for medicine(But is a bitch tbh,but dont wish her any miss givings) learned only Boland...burtst into tears and wrote a pitty note stating how she going for medicine lol and that shes worked hard all year lol

:rolleyes:

tear :P haha , it's harsh but that's what she gets:pac:

oooooooh the time spent of Thomas Stearns paid off
:cool:

Mr Cawley

zam wrote: »

Oh dear... Poor girl, but she could've at least tried to make some kind of an answer on someone else!
I was a nerd and learned 5 poets. Turned out nicely as I had a choice between Rich, Kavanagh, and Yeats. Went for Yeats but I'm kind of regretting it now as everyone did Yeats so I have a feeling I'll be marked harder

lots did rich and paddy k. fair is fair, you'll be marked against the scheme! lots studied Boland. I am one such fellow. I wrote a page and a quarter on Kav from recollecton 5/6 years ago! assure a fellow ''Parnassian hills'' is from Shancoduff???

highlydebased

And why are these people putting the blame directly on Boland.....she didnt make the friggin paper did she....!!

Orlaladuck

Neon-Circles wrote: »

And why are these people putting the blame directly on Boland.....she didnt make the friggin paper did she....!!

That is a good point! But just think about all the hype about it, it was a huge blow to so many students today but at least it's only worth like 12% of the overall mark though so an A1 is still achievable without it..maybe..

Cook!eMonster

Neon-Circles wrote: »

And why are these people putting the blame directly on Boland.....she didnt make the friggin paper did she....!!

thats what I dont understand....yeah I know me and a few of my mates were like if she doesnt come up ill kill her lol, but theres making a joke and then there is just plain nasty. Its the SEC they should be taking their anger out on, and even then, they dont really have a right to, we're expected to know at least 6...

Mr Cawley

And Boland is a b*tch-i've met her! And Longley i've met too, lovely man, bit of a man's man would you believe?

And they didn't come up for me

woe WOE WOE is me, needed an A1

Orlaladuck

Orlaladuck wrote: »

That is a good point! But just think about all the hype about it, it was a huge blow to so many students today but at least it's only worth like 12% of the overall mark though so an A1 is still achievable without it..maybe..

Well only if they got 100% in everything else and at least 10 marks in whatever attempt they made in poetry...otherwise nope!

Orlaladuck

Ah we have to give them something to wish for haha. It'd be pretty much improbable rather than impossible!

Mau5

RyanK wrote: »

Basically I said about Romantic Ireland being dead and gone in the real world but in the ideal world he wants Romantic Ireland to be alive... I don't know if that's right I'm a pure BS'er.

I did the same, used Lake Isle, September 1913, Easter 1916 and Byzantium as I do always for Yeats. Pretty much went on about imagery and descriptive language use and liked it in with the question!

For Lake Isle I said the tension is between the real world being him living in depressing London and his ideal world of living primitive in Innisfree

September 1913 I said it was between real world having no patriotism/nationalism in his oppinion to his ideal world where it was more like when wolfetone was around.

Easter 1916 I said it was between real world patriotism/martyrs and his idea of lack of romance in 1913

Then Byzantium I said it was between real world him aging/becoming sick and ideal world being "immortalised" like Byzantine emperors

Hope it goes well!