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my bookies odds for the poetry question!!!

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    #32
    upmeath
    Registered Users Posts: 1,492 ✭✭✭upmeath


    The War Horse is more about The Troubles than World War II I reckon...
    "Only a leaf of out laurel hedge is torn" - Only a corner of Ireland is affected
    "He stumbles down our short street" - Ireland is the "short street", the Troubles looming over us all but selecting a minority as victims "like a rumour of war"


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    #33
    Breezer
    Registered Users Posts: 3,228 ✭✭✭Breezer


    Ah, Boland. Only she has the ability to be so pretentious as to compare the 6 million dead in WWII to a horse standing on her flower.

    I always thought that was about Northern Ireland... Oh well, not doing her anyway. Yeats, Dickinson, Wordsworth or Kavanagh, any of them'll do! I'm having visions of the other 4 rearing their ugly heads though... :eek:


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    #34
    Fortinbras'
    Closed Accounts Posts: 177 ✭✭Fortinbras'


    upmeath wrote:
    The War Horse is more about The Troubles than World War II I reckon...
    "Only a leaf of out laurel hedge is torn" - Only a corner of Ireland is affected
    "He stumbles down our short street" - Ireland is the "short street", the Troubles looming over us all but selecting a minority as victims "like a rumour of war"


    Ilicit braid - ribbon men

    A cause ruined before a world betrayed - the cause is nationalism

    the world feels betrayed due to the disgusting nature of violence




    Our unformed fear of fierce commitment gone - Our Resistance to War is now gone

    We use the subterfuge of (curtains/windows??) to hide from war behind the anonmyinity of war


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    #35
    BraveheartGal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 264 ✭✭BraveheartGal


    Da_IRISH_ONE4U
    Registered User
    " Eh... Wheres ma Wordsworth???????? "



    back in his box where he belongs


    dickinson all the way
    (but if she comes up i bet itll be a b of a question, cos everyones predictin her)
    followed closely by good auld kav


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    #36
    trishemurphy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 95 ✭✭trishemurphy


    noo it'll be write your personal response to dickinson and tomorrow night i'll log on and ye'll be like wow how did you know that and ye'll bow to my greatness
    and if she doesn't i'll never log on again and i'll fail my english exam
    come on dickenson you can do it girl


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    #37
    BraveheartGal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 264 ✭✭BraveheartGal


    what will you write as personal response?
    how you admired her uniqueness, her courage in not shirking from abstract subject matter and of course, her infamous "idiosyncratic genius"


    you?


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    Fortinbras'
    Closed Accounts Posts: 177 ✭✭Fortinbras'


    BraveheartGal wrote:
    what will you write as personal response?
    how you admired her uniqueness, her courage in not shirking from abstract subject matter and of course, her infamous "idiosyncratic genius"


    you?


    ALl of them of course


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    #39
    Fortinbras'
    Closed Accounts Posts: 177 ✭✭Fortinbras'


    Are any on-line bookies doing bets?


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    #40
    trishemurphy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 95 ✭✭trishemurphy


    simply how much she amazes me


    oh and 3 poems is that enough


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    #41
    Fortinbras'
    Closed Accounts Posts: 177 ✭✭Fortinbras'


    trishemurphy wrote:
    simply how much she amazes me


    oh and 3 poems is that enough


    Go in detail on 3 but mention other 2/3 very briefly


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    #42
    trishemurphy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 95 ✭✭trishemurphy


    do i have to she says in a horrible whiny tone


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    #43
    Fortinbras'
    Closed Accounts Posts: 177 ✭✭Fortinbras'


    trishemurphy wrote:
    do i have to she says in a horrible whiny tone


    Just say at end of a paragraph, This theme/issue is also evident in her other poem ....

    she further explores this in .....

    etc.


    SHe also finishes this poem.. with a dash similarily


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    #44
    Deadlocked
    Registered Users Posts: 88 ✭✭Deadlocked


    Come on Yeats, Heaney or Longley!!!!

    Stabs Boland. I hate her poetry!


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    #45
    Fortinbras'
    Closed Accounts Posts: 177 ✭✭Fortinbras'


    I dont think heaney is coming up


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    #46
    bounty_hunter
    Registered Users Posts: 1,702 ✭✭✭bounty_hunter


    C'mon Dickinson and/or Yeats!


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    #47
    [Deleted User]
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    My bookie got yeats dead on last year.


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