Only Studying Plath, Boland and Rich? L.C.2012

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Okay so I was daydreaming at the back of a free class we had today (as you do :rolleyes:) and this hit me. Our English teacher told us that at least 1 out of the 3 female poets had to come up on the LC paper (correct me if I'm wrong). So what if I just studied the 3 female poets and knew them well instead of learning 5 or 6?

Probably a bad idea but I just wanted to throw it out there to get some opinions...
Thanks in advance,
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Diabhal Beag

You might get a really difficult question on the female poet. I remember so many people wanted Boland to come up last year and Rich did instead but the Kavangh question was way easier.

Chuchoter

Do you not remember last year and the Boland drama? Never try to predict poets down to 3.
Study absolute minimum 6 poets.

partyatmygaff

Bad idea. Leave it at that.


First of all worrying about what poets to study this early in fifth year is beyond pointless. Second of all if you only study female poets you'll be in major trouble if one of the questions is not to your taste or even worse the SEC decide not to include a female poet. There's no set rule, the "A female poet must come up" thing is just a rule of thumb.

partyatmygaff

crayolastereo wrote: »

Study absolute minimum 6 poets.

That's the other extreme. (Sorry )


You only need 5 and even at that you could quite feasibly narrow it down to four poets.

Aoifey!

Last year I studied 5 just to be safe (3 I studied came up). I would say you should know those 3 well and get at least the basics of another 2 just in case those 3 don't come up.

Better safe than sorry.

Sunny!!

crayolastereo wrote: »

Do you not remember last year and the Boland drama? Never try to predict poets down to 3.
Study absolute minimum 6 poets.

5 is plenty.:D

PictureFrame

crayolastereo wrote: »

Do you not remember last year and the Boland drama? Never try to predict poets down to 3.
Study absolute minimum 6 poets.

I'm in 5th year and we studied: Boland, Rich, Plath and Kavanagh and we're finished the poetry for good now!. We're not doing anymore! Kinda nervous reading all ye guys posts saying at least 5/6 :L..

LilMissCiara

PictureFrame wrote: »

I'm in 5th year and we studied: Boland, Rich, Plath and Kavanagh and we're finished the poetry for good now!. We're not doing anymore! Kinda nervous reading all ye guys posts saying at least 5/6 :L..

8 poets are on the course.. 4 come up.. By studying 4 you are at risk of the 4 you didn't study coming up...

Perhaps your teacher meant you were finished for 5th year? There's plenty of time to cover 6 poets at least.

We've one poet left to study (we do 6) and that's everything done.. - We're in LC.

BOHtox

What you want is the women poets and the Irish poets and you'll be grand

RHRN

LilMissCiara wrote: »

8 poets are on the course.. 4 come up.. By studying 4 you are at risk of the 4 you didn't study coming up...

To be fair though, it is a 1 in 120 chance that that would happen...

Still, I think our teacher is doing five with us. We've done Heaney, Plath and Rich so far, idk who we're doing next.

KKBL

LilMissCiara wrote: »

8 poets are on the course.. 4 come up.. By studying 4 you are at risk of the 4 you didn't study coming up...

Perhaps your teacher meant you were finished for 5th year? There's plenty of time to cover 6 poets at least.

We've one poet left to study (we do 6) and that's everything done.. - We're in LC.

I'm in 5th year and all we've done is Frost :?

GoldFour4

KKBL wrote: »

I'm in 5th year and all we've done is Frost :?

Yes but you`ve probably done other parts of the course eg. Hamlet and comparative . You have plenty of time to do four more !:D

Chuchoter

KKBL wrote: »

I'm in 5th year and all we've done is Frost :?

Have you done other stuff like Hamlet/Comparative/Language work? We have a bit of everything done because we do different things on different days.

LilMissCiara

KKBL wrote: »

I'm in 5th year and all we've done is Frost :?

Could be wrong but I think it was around this time that we started poetry in 5th year so don't worry!

We did language first, then around October midterm we did Hamlet and then around February/March we started poetry. We then had 3 poets done by Summer.

As broad and big as the English course is, there is plenty of time to get it all covered! We have 1 more poet to do and we're finished.

Dannnnn

I'm only focusing on 2 poets, tehe.

PARARORY

Terrible idea and extremely lazy Poets are easy enough to do , and you only need about 3-5 poems to answer one in an essay!

wayhey

Study them until you're absolutely sick of them. Know those three inside out. I'm assuming you're in 5th Year? Make out unreal notes and read as much of them and critical commentaries of their work as you can.

Then when you want to give Rich a mop and wedding ring, Plath a happy face badge and Boland (... well Boland's actually sound enough...), move onto the other poets. That's my advice.

SDTimeout

It's also worth taking note for anyone doing it in 2011. Trends and who won't be on the course next year, as well as who came up last year.

I'm doing Dickinson, Wordsworth, Hopkins and Boland. ( We did Frost last year and Boland last year , unsure if i will revise Frost ). I would not be shocked in the slightest due to trends, last year and who is on it next year if all 4 of mine came up.

roxykid07

Im in 5th year and so far weve just done Plath. Know it inside out though

Were nearly done hamlet and have done our literary genre too, anyone else bout the same?

Oh and learning just three aint a good idea!!

PictureFrame

roxykid07 wrote: »

Im in 5th year and so far weve just done Plath. Know it inside out though

Were nearly done hamlet and have done our literary genre too, anyone else bout the same?

Oh and learning just three aint a good idea!!

I'm in 5th year also (high-5 :P) and we've done Kavanagh, Rich, Plath, Boland and we finished Hamlet and then some general comprehension work/essays etc!

gant0

do the 3 women and the someone who you think is another likely possibilty to come up....no need for 5 at all at all:D

soniacore

I'm only studying Sylvia Plath.
If she not gonna be one , **** this I'm walking outa there and repeating next year!
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