How many Poets are you studying?

Africa

Just a a matter of interest. Im studying 4, i hope that im not gonna have 1.5% bad luck and none of them come up!

Studying:
Boland
Dickinson
Longley (favorite poet)
Wordsworth

Longley's the only one we didn't study in class.

For the exam i'll be learning quotes from Kavanagh, Boland, Dickinson, Heaney and yeats. I doubt one of those won't come up.

exiztone

3

Yeats
Boland
Dickinson

I've heard a female poet HAS to come up.

Zukustious

exiztone wrote:

I've heard a female poet HAS to come up.

That's not true you just generally get at least one. Could shock us this year! I hope so I'm not doing any female poets. I'm doing 5: Heaney, Longley, Yeats, Wordsworth, Eliot.

exiztone

exiztone wrote:

3

Yeats
Boland
Dickinson

I've heard a female poet HAS to come up.

I'm doing the same three. I couldn't bother wasting my time on a subject like English.

*Angel*

I'm doing 4, I was planning on doing 5 but sh!t happens...

Kavanagh
Yeats
Dickinson
Heaney

Seen as you guys seem to like Longley do you wanna give me a few pointers? Please?

Africa

Have you all your quotes learned off?

Zukustious

He likes his da I'll tell you that. Or maybe he doesn't. He writes about him anyway. Maybe I should crack open a book...

Africa wrote:

Have you all your quotes learned off?

That's what the frantic night before the exam is for.

<Jonny>

<Jonny> wrote:

That's what the frantic night before the exam is for.

OMG! I hope you're kidding? Learning quotes from 4/5 different poets, and your single text, and your comparative, in one day? :eek:

Yeah, i'm kidding. That doesn't mean I won't still be franticly learning things the night before though.

Of course not.

You scared me there for a second though!

Africa

well....it is possible.

Ive done out ym SSt quotes, still have the rest to do!!!

hum

im doing 5

kavanagh
boland
heaney
longley
dickinson

although boland is probly my worst
as for quotes at the moment my walls are nothing but a mass of highlighted sheets of quotes!! it helps to, its always there in front of you, you dont have to go searching kinda thing

as for hamlet i counted up my quotes to learn.. grand total= 29 so i know about 10 of them, so if i learn 5 a day till the exam it should be ok

does anyone else think that once english and irish are over it will be grand..??

randomfella

6 or more and u are a loser. Or u have too much time on your hands or both. if u study 7 or more the option should be im a sad bastard. Seriously though u know at least one of the poets out 5 will be on it why BOTHER study a sixth?

hum

huh? do you mean me or in general!??
i never said i was doing six!!

randomfella

in general of course. Sorry if anybody took offense to last post by me.

*Angel*

you're doing 5 so obviously he means in general

hum

oh ok! no its cool, i agree, i dont know how i would even have time to do anymore than 5 i mean its hard enough as it is!!

Rnger

Zukustious wrote:

That's not true you just generally get at least one. Could shock us this year! I hope so I'm not doing any female poets. I'm doing 5: Heaney, Longley, Yeats, Wordsworth, Eliot.

5?! your a god damn sicko. im doing 3 maybe even 2 when i found out its worth only 50 marks

Cannibal Ox

Dickinson
Heaney
Boland
Wordsworth
I was going to do Yeats as well, but I don't see the point anymore.

Is Dickinson on the course for next year? Cause afaik Boland's only up this year, so if Dickinson is up next year as well you'd have to put your bets on Boland being the female poet.

hum

2006= donne
hardy
hopkins
yeats
eliot
bishop
plath
longley

camroc

Okay, could someone answer this once and for all, does a female poet have to come up? If not I am screwed!

Africa

It doesnt HAVE to but you can bet there will be one. I think lots of people are.

JIC, study another one though.

the smiley one

I'm doing: Dickinson Yeats Eliot Longley Heaney

Rnger wrote:

5?! your a god damn sicko. im doing 3 maybe even 2 when i found out its worth only 50 marks

50 marks is 12.5% of your whole exam......quite a bit I'd say, and considering this is probably your 2/3/4th time revising the poets it's not so hard going...

Shyster

boland
heaney
wordsworth
dickinson

how many poems should you include in your answer, is three too little?

Africa

three or four. Usually going over is taking up time.

But apply to the topic at hand, dont go poem by poem unless the question reflects this approach.

Shyster

really?, thats how I was doing it
so its better to deal with say, a technique that the poet uses and discuss it in all the relevant poems...?

D-Generate

Doing 5 poets and I know 6 poems from each poet

Longley
Dickinson
Yeats
Heaney
Kavanagh

I could have learned Boland aswell so I would have an option of doing 2 poets for the exam but I hate her stuff so there was no gain to having her as an extra option.

Generally in an answer I will talk about 4 poems, any more and it means you musn't be delving in to teh poems to a great enough detail, any less and it shows you don't really know that much work by them.

vote4pedro

I'm learning 5 essays, a personal response on
Boland
Dickinson
Yeats
Worsworth
Kavanagh

I'll be covered that way without having to learn off general spoofy stuff about all poets.Instead I have 5 essays, each discussing around 4 poems and then a few paragraphs on general points about the poet (Memorable quality, personal quality). Even if a straight "Personal Response" question doesn't come up, it's easily adaptable as they can't ask anything specific in the question. It will just be "Pick your favourite poems.." or "Write a speech to introduce the poetry of..." which is just the same as a personal response with a little tweeking. If anyone hasn't started studying poets properly yet, Id def recommend just writing and learning off a personal response so.

Scarinae

exiztone wrote:

I've heard a female poet HAS to come up.

Ah yes, but what if the female poet question is really ****ty and hard to answer on?
I'm doing 5 - Dickinson, Yeats, Kavanagh, Longley and Heaney, although the three I know the best are probably Dickinson, Heaney and Longley. I could manage a question on the other two but it wouldn't be my ideal. I'm hoping for some manner of an A in English anyway, I really enjoy studying it, I find it way harder to study Irish simply because I don't enjoy it much