Were you happy with English Paper 2?

Geo10

Did the poet you studied come up, how was the single text and comparitive? What questions did you do?

dambarude

Considering they won't be out for a few hours, you're in in good time with this thread:P

Dr. Ring

For a second there I actually thought someone had left after 40 mins...EPIC FAIL

Big Pussy Bonpensiero

What came up?

Dr. Ring

Boland anyway :P Thats all I know.

richieffff

Everything I studied came up
Boland, Yeats, Frost and Dickenson came up in poetry.
Theme or Issue and Cultural Contex in the comparative.

Big Pussy Bonpensiero

richieffff wrote: »

Everything I studied came up
Boland, Yeats, Frost and Dickenson came up in poetry.
Theme or Issue and Cultural Contex in the comparative.

Congrats man! What came up regarding Shakespeare?

richieffff

I did A dolls house but for hamlet it was "Revenge and Justice are finely balanced theme in the play" Discuss

or

"claudious can be seen as both heartless villian and a character with some redeaming qualitys in the play"
Discuss both aspects.

Big Pussy Bonpensiero

richieffff wrote: »

I did A dolls house but for hamlet it was "Revenge and Justice are finely balanced theme in the play" Discuss

or

"claudious can be seen as both heartless villian and a character with some redeaming qualitys in the play"
Discuss both aspects.

Thanks a lot mate, appreciated! And congrats again!

innovation.

Can I ask how you're out so early?

implausible

richieffff wrote: »

Everything I studied came up
Boland, Yeats, Frost and Dickenson came up in poetry.
Theme or Issue and Cultural Contex in the comparative.

Woohoo! My students did Boland, Frost, Dickinson, WBY and Kavanagh, Theme and CC:):):):):D

richieffff

It was a combination of being a fast writer and having my section one and three done really quick

Big Pussy Bonpensiero

Just realised two women came up, that must have pleased a lot of people. I know a lot of people that were relying on Hamlet himself coming up tho:(.

Vodkat

I am on top of the world at the moment, my fingers are in pain but im just too happy to care. LOVED the unseen poem!!!

And here it is incase anyones wondering

''Poetry'' Leanne O sullivan

I can never find a pen when you come, when you
snap me up on your lizard tongue and
wrap yourself around me as if I were a spool.
Vague as metaphors you tease
trawling your shadows as feathering clouds do,
shedding infant vowels in your vaporous image.
You will never be perfected, and while you are
half born I will never sleep.

In pickling ink I preserve all your fruits;
Perhaps you are a prophecy, a
mouthing of the boundless, or some
God or other Minerva festering
like secrets in empty lines.
Years gone now, labouring to drain the
reddest blood from your throat,
and I am none the wiser.

UrbanSea

Aw I was delighted when I saw the paper

UrbanSea

Can't say I ''LOVED'' the unseen poem. What was so great about it?
Was delighted with the two papers.

floutingmaxims

Paper 2.. WHAT A BEAUTY!!!

Out of curiosity, what did everybody else say for the main emotion in the unseen poem..?

I said frustration

UrbanSea

Same here Cawcheen.

Vodkat

UrbanSea wrote: »

Can't say I ''LOVED'' the unseen poem. What was so great about it?
Was delighted with the two papers.

I loved it because I found it easy to interpret.
I did the personal response and included authors style, poetic techniques such as onomatopoeia, rhyme, personification, similes etc.

Luno

I was hoping Frost wouldn't be up so he'd be on the paper in 2012!

unknowntoown

have to honestly say BEST TEST EVER...for me anyway
i'm what youd call a slacker
i didnt study at all for english until last night and for 3 hours dis morning
i took a major risk haha
for poetry i studied 1 poet out of 8 guess what he came up couldnt of been more delighted was Robert Frost
for Hamlet i did theme and issue , basicly question was revenge and justice are considered balanced in the play Hamlet , discuss this with reference to the play , best part was i only studied 3 quotes and all 3 were on the revenge theme so it fitted in nicely
the comparative was the hardest out of them all ,but still i was able to choose my own theme which worked out nicely
oh and the unseen poem made me smile

UrbanSea

You only used three quotes?

flyaway.

How lucky are we?! That. Was. Lovely.

Vodkat

The paper is up on the examinations website already, that was quick!!

unknowntoown

UrbanSea wrote: »

You only used three quotes?

used 3 for revenge for theme
i know hamlet so much i could read it backwards
so i got extra quotes for other parts of the story
but the 3 i used defind the revenge theme

Smartly Dressed

Absolute dream questions on Frost and Dickinson.

Hope93

Absolutely brilliant paper! There is a god!

I had banked on Boland this morning though and was studying like hell for her but the question was particularly great so I fell back on Dickinson, great question although I didn't use a lot of quotes and waffled a LOT but I still reckon I passed the question.

Comparative was really nice, I Didn't really relate to the CC question but what I wrote was some epic stuff so I'm sure I should get a fair bit of marks as the stuff I wrote related to the question I just didn't relate it back myself :P

Hamlet was a dream of a question. Only wrote 3 pages, that's all I needed. Revenge theme and Justice? Brilliant. Disappointed though as I left out 2 key quotes that would of lifted my grade so much, 'Scourge and Minister' and 'There's a certain providence in a fall of a sparrow'. Didn't even think on them when In the exam, of course they hit me like a brick wall when I walked out.

Absolute Dream of a paper. If I can pull a C2 out of that paper I think my Paper 1 will pull be to a B2

TheFullDuck

Deeeeeeeelighted,

a very nice paper

Claudius
Reinforce view on theme/issue
Frost
Unseen B

AG2R

I liked it tbh. The Comparative pissed me right off though. Like really "does this make you feel uncomfortable"

LilMissCiara

Hamlet - Claudius question. Gave a good enough answer, almost 4 pages. Happy enough.
Comparative - Hated it. Tried my best but only got 4 pages.
Frost - What a lovely question! Absolutely loved it! Delighted!
Unseen - Good I suppose.

BrendaN_f

Cawcheen wrote: »

Paper 2.. WHAT A BEAUTY!!!

Out of curiosity, what did everybody else say for the main emotion in the unseen poem..?

I said frustration

i picked frustration as well. the word didnt pop into my head right away, i crossed out "confusion" and "helplessness" before it came to me haha

Smartly Dressed wrote: »

Absolute dream questions on Frost and Dickinson.

yep. couldnt have asked for a nicer paper