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What poet did you pick? (HL)

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  • 04-06-2003 9:51pm
    #1
    AngelofFire
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    I picked Frost i dunno if i made the right decision though:(

    Which english poet did u pick 33 votes

    Donne
    0% 0 votes
    Frost
    15% 5 votes
    Plath
    21% 7 votes
    Heaney
    63% 21 votes


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    Bounty Hunter
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    Heaney was the only one i knew\studied and thus i picked hin and was very relieved when i saw him


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    Insectman2000
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    I wrote about bob marley
    I really shouldnt have got stoned before i went into the exam

    A~h well


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    adjodlo
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    lol...


    anyways I chose Plath, and did a biographical style analysation of her poetry...


    that letter to heaney looked like such a POS. I think I actually will send a letter to heaney calling him gay for that one...


    anyways I sure only bout 10 people in Ireland did Frost which give you an edge I suppose. Anyways I'm not even gonna think about these exams again until at least when I'm repeating next year :ninja:


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    Tyrrial
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    i would have done plath... but unfortunatly i couldn't because i did my leaving cert 2 years ago.... i guess one day i may get over this grave dissapointment:rolleyes:


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    DSMe
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    Plath here answerd on Mirror , Child , The Arrival of the Bee Box and Poppies in July... i did it in the order i would have read them in and why i would read them ... picked these 4 cause i thought people in the audience would be able to relate somehow to this maniac... i think i did alright


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    Sev
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    Plath... wrote my essay mostly from memory.


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    sikes
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    Plath... wrote my essay mostly from memory.

    How else would you have written it?


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    DSMe
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    memory? i basically made mine up from foresight .... Sylvia who?


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    [Deleted User]
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    Noone else did Donne? aww.

    Did: Valediction: A forbidding mourning, The anniversary, The Flea, and Go and Catch a Falling Star.


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    Sev
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    No.. what I mean is that every English paper I've ever sat, I just went in and made up my points and put down whatever ideas came to me as I was writing. This was the first time I ever actually did some study for English, and was as such able to just reel off stuff I had memorised. T'is great. I hadn't prepared my comparative tho :/


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    dNC | Tickle
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    Plath was a dead cert, her anniversary and all...


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    phreak
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    i did frost because he was the only one i studied that came up.


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    Flynn
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    I did Plath....
    I looked at her for the first time the night before.. memorised the stuff ( knew she was coming up)
    I picked.... Morning Song, Child, Mirror and Arrival of the Bee Box..

    I wrote an intro saying.. Id pick... *4 poems* ... and this is why:
    I then wrote a page (ish) about the poem.. then under that i wrote 5 lines about why i would pick that to read in public.. i repeated this for the other 3 poems..

    twas 4 & 1/2 pages in all.. Was this a good approach?.. my teacher is class and i copied his notes word for word nearly.. the layout was ok tho ya? id say i'm one of about 3 (of 50 ) that did plath in my skool.. evry1 did Heaney .. this is also good..

    I kicked the Unseens ass tho.. cool little poem.. although quite disturbing..

    Macbeth.. never was good at it.. but got 3 pages done.. comparitive - struggled to write 3 pages.. fuk it!
    i got a B3 in the Pre.. LC was practically same paper 1.. id say i'll drop to a C1 tho cuz pre was marked easy
    "be optimistic dammit" .. yeah B1 in the bag.. i'd really love one!


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    Duffman
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    Plath.... had Heaney prepared very well but the whole letter thing looked a bit risky....


    Couldn't believe the Macbeth question.... I picked evil as a random topic to prepare the night before... :D


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    pseudonym
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    Donne, Hopkins or Heaney would have done me and when i got the paper, like every1 else i talked to, i opened it from the back and checked the poets first, let out a sigh of relief which became a cloud of joy on discovering the piss easy nature of the macbeth qs and the cultural context. "In light of your understanding of the term"!!!!!!!!!!!Come on.
    Anyway,,,,,,,,,,Donne q was lovely and wrote an epic 5 1/2 page opus on his metaphysical pursuits, placing emphasis on The Sunne Rising , The Anniversarie , The Flea and Batter my Heart , which I am delighted with.


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