!! English HL 2015 - ALL things HL English, predictions, discussion etc.

Blue giant wrote: »

I hope you're not right for English. If Frost or Dickinson don't come up I'm kind of screwed. I don't think ENC will come up. Everyone thinks she will and she's also on the course next year and 2018. Montague or Frost aren't on the course again until 2018 and it's been a few years since either have come up. I think it will be Montague, Frost, Dickinson/Plath and then take your pick from the other four. This may be just wishful thinking on my part though.

I doubt Plath will come up (yes I know, obviously), but she's also on the course for the next two years IIRC. I agree, Ni Chuilleanáin probably won't come up. So that leaves Dickinson, who looks quite likely, and they always like to have a poet coming up twice in a row.

Frost looks very likely as well, but it's a gamble that can have bad consequences.

Kremin wrote: »

Ni Chuilleanain has never come up before though? And from what I've heard Plath was the first time any poets came up two years in a row?

I don't think that's true, Yeats came up 2010,2011

My English teacher was convinced both Yates and Ni Chuilleanain were coming up for this year, but as teachers themselves know so little about Ni Chuilleanain she doubts if she will come up, and if she does, the question will be fairly easy as she's never been on before. As for Yates, next year is the 100 year anniversary of 1916 he might be saved for next year. Frost and Montague look likely. Anyone any tips on what might be coming up for LC History, Dictatorship and Democracy topic?

what are the main themes in ni chuilleanain's poems ?

English HL paper2 predictions?? Othello question in particular?

Anonymagician wrote: »

Possibly Iago, theme of jealousy/revenge/deception or role of women. Character of Othello came up last time and considering the play isn't on the LC a whole lot, I doubt they'd repeat it.

Was thinking to focus on Iago and desdemona and how they are polar opposites and the imagery surrounding them

Patsy6546 wrote: »

Comparative study question? Team/Issue?

Theme and Issue
Literary Genre ?

Do people think I'll be okay for othello if I learn questions on
1-othello as tragic hero
2-Iago as a bit of a prick
3-Desdemona as too good(disagree)
4-theme jealousy and revenge
5-theme good vs evil
6-imagery and symbolism?

Any predictions with the Irish essays? I reckon seandaoine is a shout- mock and not come up yet and was on a sample paper

Pete123456 wrote: »

May aswell throw in my two cents... be very careful going on predictions on threads and fb etc... Heaney and Plath were supposedly a dead cert the year of my leaving, because the whole country figured "ah shur... they havent been up in years they HAVE to come up this year..." Everybody banked on them and neither were on the paper. i remember Ruairi Quinn saying at one stage before the lc that they had to take away from predictions and trends.. and that he did... There were all sorts of predictions going around and not just for english, but having been there, be wise about what you study and dont leave yourself caught out on the day!

That will go down as some legend told by teachers to pupils in fifty years time, "Oh, I remember one year, the 'Pleaney year' they called it..."

Ah sure if you study Montague and Yeats, you're sorted! Ahm, yeah, I'll be studying five. Poetry is my favourite section, and I like to apply Murphy's law when studying for the LC

reckon hardy will he didn't come up last year and hes not on the curriculum until at least 2019! if hes going to come up it has to be this year :P

Anonymagician wrote: »

But does a female poet actually HAVE to come up? I think if there's no genuine rule then this is the year it'd be all male.

According to my teacher, a female poet does not have to come up so anything is possible this year

lucy17 wrote: »

what are the main themes in ni chuilleanain's poems ?

Seeing as no one replied to this yet, they are nature, isolation, death, the sorrow of history, spirituality, mythology & folklore and love.

Basically, If I want to get my C in English then I have to get a very good mark in Paper 1 as it's my best area of the course. Need any tips, anything at all!!!

Jasmine Magnificent Slugger wrote: »

I would have loved to have studied Plath but she's extremely unlikely but then again the SEC love a good joke at our expense. My teacher believes ENC isn't coming up cause everyone will bank on her cause she's new.

I love how Dickinson can be read in different ways. For example, for the poem A Narrow Fellow In The Grass I'm comparing it to how people today still don't associate with "otherness" just because it's different to what they know. Her poems are the most relevant today out of the poets I've done anyway.

Plath would have had a good chance to come up if she wasn't on for the next couple of years as well. If she comes up this year, then she'd certainly not come up the year after, and thus nobody would study her. ENC is on next year and in a few years, and, like your teacher says, she's way too obvious.

Dickinsons poetry may have different ways of reading it, but I find myself struggling to understand parts of her poetry. I also lost all my notes for her, so I relied on Shmoop for guidance through her poems (who were clueless themselves! They literally just said, 'if you don't understand this, then don't worry, because we don't either'). I find that they would be very interesting if I was able to interpret her lines.

I was thinking about studying 'a Narrow Fellow In the Grass' myself. It looked quite interesting and seemed to be about her relationship with a boy when she was younger, iirc? My favourite one of Dickinson is 'a Bird walked down the... (name escapes me!), talking about how we're detached from nature and explains the vulgarity of it when nobody is watching. Really cool techniques in it such as 'grass' mingled with glass. Probably an easier poem to understand!