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English Poets 2012

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    #182
    Chuchoter
    Registered Users Posts: 4,306 ✭✭✭Chuchoter


    I personally think they do it by random number generation and we're picking patterns out of nothing. ANYWAY.

    My ideal selection would be Plath, Heaney, Frost and Boland/Kinsella. I like Rich but I find it difficult to structure essays on her. Kavanagh's the only guy I completely hate.


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    #183
    Munster07
    Registered Users Posts: 36 ✭Munster07


    Hey guys, just wondering do ye reckon I'd be okay with just Plath, Rich and Heaney? Thanks! :)


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    #184
    JonnyMcNamee
    Registered Users Posts: 405 ✭✭JonnyMcNamee


    Munster07 wrote: »
    Hey guys, just wondering do ye reckon I'd be okay with just Plath, Rich and Heaney? Thanks! :)
    I'd put the house on it that you are.. unless we get an absolute shít of a paper! :cool: Maybe go over someone else though, just to have a backup. Personally I find Kavanagh the easiest, albeit the most boring, poet on the English course.


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    #185
    Astrozombies
    Registered Users Posts: 145 ✭✭Astrozombies


    I kinda only have Plath, Rich and Heaney covered because my teacher did Boland and Frost with us in 5th year but then they came up in the 2011 exam ... oh well


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    #186
    Izymunz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 113 ✭✭Izymunz


    Togepi wrote: »
    I haven't really got a clue since they can put anyone on, but I picked Rich, (fingers crossed!) Larkin, Kinsella and Heaney. I really hope Plath isn't on, I'd hate to have to answer on her 'cause all of the answers on her would be really good and mine would be terrible in comparison!

    I think she is on for the 5th years. She recently died as well but it was after the papers were prepared so I think they'll hold out on Rich this year.


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    #187
    Namlub
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,298 ✭✭✭Namlub


    Decided that my absolute worst case scenario would be Frost, Larkin, Kinsella (haven't done them) and Heaney (find him really hard to write about and all this Jungian theory stuff) but in fairness, an all-male paper seems unlikely so...


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    #188
    Danny94
    Registered Users Posts: 24 ✭Danny94


    Do you think Id be covered with Kinsella,Larkin and Plath ?


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    #189
    donvito99
    Registered Users Posts: 5,818 ✭✭✭donvito99


    I reckon, Wordsworth, Auden and Dickinson.

    Just my 2 cents.


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    #190
    AllyMcFearless
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    Danny94 wrote: »
    Do you think Id be covered with Kinsella,Larkin and Plath ?

    More than likely yeah :)


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    #191
    Hayezer
    Registered Users Posts: 652 ✭✭✭Hayezer


    Plath, Rich and Boland be grand?


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    #192
    Whatsername92
    Registered Users Posts: 45 ✭Whatsername92


    So I'm studying (In order of preference):

    Frost
    Kavanagh
    Heaney
    Boland


    (And Rich and Kinsella only partially)

    Think I'll be ok? :P


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    #193
    darol15
    Registered Users Posts: 35 ✭darol15


    ye reckon ill be alright with just plath ? lol She'll defo come up i reckon !!


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    #194
    deathbythelc
    Registered Users Posts: 338 ✭✭deathbythelc


    Just found some sample essays if anyone is struggling with the poets :)

    http://www.forum-publications.com/sampleanswers2012.htm

    There's one on each poet there, useful for essay structure and so on. :)


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    #195
    Togepi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,813 ✭✭✭Togepi


    I really hope both Plath and Heaney don't come up! (Don't shoot me...) :P


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    #196
    deathbythelc
    Registered Users Posts: 338 ✭✭deathbythelc


    Togepi wrote: »
    I really hope both Plath and Heaney don't come up! (Don't shoot me...) :P

    *shoots you for saying Plath*

    It'd be so funny if they didn't though, I can just hear the sobbing now. :rolleyes:


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    #197
    xcorina
    Registered Users Posts: 46 ✭xcorina


    I'm only revising Larkin and Heaney (I already know Plath off by heart), as my teacher predicted those two, and he has ALWAYS been right. I'll cry from happiness if Larkin shows up!
    If I get time I might do Kavanagh too, only since I really love his poetry and I feel I can give a real personal response to him.
    ...be grand


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    #198
    cbd93
    Registered Users Posts: 1 ✭cbd93


    Anybody have any essays on Seamus Heaney that they could send me?


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    #199
    JonnyMcNamee
    Registered Users Posts: 405 ✭✭JonnyMcNamee


    xcorina wrote: »
    I'm only revising Larkin and Heaney (I already know Plath off by heart), as my teacher predicted those two, and he has ALWAYS been right. I'll cry from happiness if Larkin shows up!
    If I get time I might do Kavanagh too, only since I really love his poetry and I feel I can give a real personal response to him.
    ...be grand
    If Larkin and Plath comes up I dunno what I'll do.. Probably write on LArkin just because everyone's doing Plath. Both of their poetry is amazing imho and I know the both of them like the back of my hand!


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    #200
    NoHarm1994
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    Pity that the poetry is only worth 50 marks :L


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    #201
    Canard
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 8,572 Mod ✭✭✭✭Canard


    silversky wrote: »
    According to This Is Poetry 2013 he's not :confused:

    2013 Poets: William Shakespeare,William Wordsworth, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Elizabeth Bishop, Thomas Kinsella, Adrienne Rich, Sylvia Plath
    Derek Mahon.

    http://www.schoolbooksireland.ie/This-Is-Poetry-2013-Leaving-Cert-Higher-Level-Forum-Publications/9781906565138/

    Anyway if I could put my money on any poet to come up it would be Heaney.
    Oh :O I could swear my friends in 5th year studied him...I mean, I even gave them my Heaney essay :pac: Odd!


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    #202
    Mysteriouschic
    Registered Users Posts: 4,391 ✭✭✭Mysteriouschic


    Yeah Heaney isn't on next year. He's on for 2014 though.

    http://www.education.ie/servlet/blobservlet/cl0004_2011.pdf?language=EN
    http://www.education.ie/servlet/blobservlet/cl0001_2012.pdf?language=EN


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    #203
    leavingcert.
    Registered Users Posts: 244 ✭✭leavingcert.


    heaney PLEASE!


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    #204
    Ryanb1995
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    Kinsella has never come up though! shouldn't that be more of a reason for him to come up?


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    #205
    imelle
    Registered Users Posts: 445 ✭✭imelle


    Larkin and Plath are the ones i'm studying really well, then Heaney i know reasonably, i kinda remember boland from last year and if i have to write about Kavanagh i'll be making up stuff :P


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    #206
    ImFudged
    Registered Users Posts: 37 ✭ImFudged


    Plath and heaney are deffinately going to come up. If not then im sorted anyways. I Know 5 poets


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    #207
    donvito99
    Registered Users Posts: 5,818 ✭✭✭donvito99


    Can we not just assume that a female poet will come up?

    So to study Plath, Boland and Rich is a fairly safe bet.

    Although I think that if this is the case, then Plath will without doubt come up, albeit with a difficult question.


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    #208
    Sunny!!
    Registered Users Posts: 1,408 ✭✭✭Sunny!!


    i love the way heaney and boland were in the comprehensions haha hint hint:p


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    #209
    Togepi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,813 ✭✭✭Togepi


    Sunny!! wrote: »
    i love the way heaney and boland were in the comprehensions haha hint hint:p

    Were they? :eek:

    I nearly quoted Plath in my essay. :p

    Edit: Oh my god they were! :eek: I never read that comprehension! They can't put both on though, sure they're both Irish. :confused:


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    #210
    ChemHickey
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    Togepi wrote: »
    Sunny!! wrote: »
    i love the way heaney and boland were in the comprehensions haha hint hint:p

    Were they? :eek:

    I nearly quoted Plath in my essay. :p

    Edit: Oh my god they were! :eek: I never read that comprehension! They can't put both on though, sure they're both Irish. :confused:

    It'd be better thought that neither will arise as they have already on paper 1!!


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    #211
    Zaffy
    Registered Users Posts: 153 ✭✭Zaffy


    A certain McMonagle says Kinsella would be your best bet if panicking now.


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