English Poetry

Manic2

Ok so I was wondering what poets you are all doing and which 4 you think will come up in the actual, like as in your own predictions. :P

Who would you like to come up, and who do you just hate?

I'm doing Plath, Kavanagh, Heaney, Rich and Kinsella.

I've finished Plath, Kinsella and Kavanagh and I'm currently doing Rich.

I'm banking on Plath as I thought she was excellent to write about. I detest Kavanagh and Kinsella is only ok. Like Rich so far.

What about yourselves?

Chuchoter

My favorites would be Plath, Frost, Boland and Rich. I hate Kavanagh and we've only just started Heany, but I plan on studying 6 poets. I'd be thrilled if Plath came up and I've a suspicion she will. Frost and Boland came up last year so I don't think they'll come up again so quickly.

Coeurdepirate

We've done Rich, Boland and Heaney and we're going to do Plath and Kavanagh.
Love Rich but not too fond of the other two.

Manic2

How come you're both doing Boland? Can't imagine she'd come up again so soon. :P

Chuchoter

Because she's reasonably easy to write about and isn't boring like Kavanagh. I don't think 2012 got a great selection of poets tbh.

Manic2

Chuchoter wrote: »

Because she's reasonably easy to write about and isn't boring like Kavanagh. I don't think 2012 got a great selection of poets tbh.

I doubt it aswell. I'm gonna learn Plath, Rich and Kinsella really well I think one of them are bound to come up. There's always at least 1 woman isn't there? :P
Kinsella has never come up before so he might be a dead cert.

Chuchoter

I'd say Kinsella and Plath could be good ones to bank on then, after that Rich.

Manic2

Chuchoter wrote: »

I'd say Kinsella and Plath could be good ones to bank on then, after that Rich.

Everyone seems to think Plath is a dead cert aswell. I can almost feel another Boland incident happening.

Coeurdepirate

I want Rich to come up, she's lovely to write on

The Educator

I absolutely love Plath's poetry for some reason...!! I find it so nice and relaxing! Also Im not one of those people that would just sit at home at the weekend and read some poetry but honestly I relly did enjoy Plath! She is soo good!

Mr. Rager

The Educator wrote: »

I absolutely love Plath's poetry for some reason...!! I find it so nice and relaxing! Also Im not one of those people that would just sit at home at the weekend and read some poetry but honestly I relly did enjoy Plath! She is soo good!

She is the most depressing women I have ever heard in my life?

Sunny!!

don't waste yere time predicting!! You could get an extra poet done in the time wasted;)

Manic2

The Educator wrote: »

I absolutely love Plath's poetry for some reason...!! I find it so nice and relaxing! Also Im not one of those people that would just sit at home at the weekend and read some poetry but honestly I relly did enjoy Plath! She is soo good!

I love her too! She may have dark undertones but when I have to write stuff on her I think it just comes so fluidly for me.

Wow reading over that I sound like my english teacher. :L

Chuchoter

I put no weight in predictions, I'm still studying 6 so I'll always have a choice of 2 questions.

Coeurdepirate

The Educator wrote: »

I absolutely love Plath's poetry for some reason...!! I find it so nice and relaxing! Also Im not one of those people that would just sit at home at the weekend and read some poetry but honestly I relly did enjoy Plath! She is soo good!

Manic2 wrote: »

I love her too! She may have dark undertones but when I have to write stuff on her I think it just comes so fluidly for me.

Wow reading over that I sound like my english teacher. :L

I'm hoping that I'll enjoy her! There was something about Rich too that I just loved although I can't put my finger on it, and it's weird cause most people don't like her!

Manic2

Coeurdepirate wrote: »

I'm hoping that I'll enjoy her! There was something about Rich too that I just loved although I can't put my finger on it, and it's weird cause most people don't like her!

I'm liking Rich as of right now. I've only done Aunt Jennifers Tigers, Living In Sin and Diving Into The Wreck, but they're easy to write about, I like being able to write pages on just reading between the lines. :P

Coeurdepirate

Manic2 wrote: »

I'm liking Rich as of right now. I've only done Aunt Jennifers Tigers, Living In Sin and Diving Into The Wreck, but they're easy to write about, I like being able to write pages on just reading between the lines. :P

We did Aunt Jennifer's Tigers, Power, From a Survivor (loved this poem), Our Whole Life and Trying To Talk With A Man.
Didn't really like Our Whole Life but the others were great! From a Survivor is my favourite poem, like by anyone

SirDelboy18

Heaney is an absolute banker.

Coeurdepirate

SirDelboy18 wrote: »

Heaney is an absolute banker.

Why must his poems all be about the bog?

Mysteriouschic

Do you only write about one of the poets in the exam out of the ones that come up?

Coeurdepirate

Mysteriouschic wrote: »

Do you only write about one of the poets in the exam out of the ones that come up?

Yep!

Incompetent

Just to go a little bit off topic, what should we learn about the poets/poems for the exam? I've an awful teacher and will be doing most of the english poetry by myself

Namlub

We've only done Boland and Kavanagh so far and I'm not a fan of either tbh, Boland is easier to write about than Patrick 'I love canals' Kavanagh though

Gott

When I last did the Leaving we had some awesome poets. Boland and Eliot were the standouts.

This year's list is just depressing, But if you want an easy poet Kavanagh's your man. Yeah he's boring and his poems are dreary but if you grit your teeth and wade through it, they're thematically simple, easy to understand, and easily remembered.

Mysteriouschic

We've not started poetry yet in our class , we're doing that next , once we've finished going over Hamlet. I'm not sure if we'll even get all the poets we need done with my teacher hes really slow and ends up spending most of the class talking .

Canard

We did all of them except Kinsella and Plath. I've heard Kinsella's terrible but I really really want to do Plath just because I've heard shes really enjoyable One of my friends said she'd teach me at some point though I hate Larkin and Heaney and Kavanagh a bit too, but I liked Rich a lot

PictureFrame

We've done:

- Plath
- Rich
- Kavanagh
- Heaney
- Larkin
- Kinsella

Plath, Heaney and Larkin are my favourites!!. No-one else has studied Philip Larkin by the replies on this thread. He's very good in my opinion. Heaney will probably come up i'd imagine, he hasn't been up since 2003..

Canard

^I just said I did, silly :P I didnt like him very much, such a depressing man.

mnop

Plath is one of my favourite poets ever I feel it's a bit of JustinBieber fan-girl type of thing.. I really hope she comes up just because I actually can't stop admiring my essay on her and would love to do so in the quiet of an exam room :')

taylorconor95

Who could hate Larkin?!?!?