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Seamus Heaney sample essay?

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  • 15-12-2013 3:56pm
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    Tesco TripleChicken
    Registered Users Posts: 164 ✭✭


    Does anyone have a sample essay on Heaney's poetry (or a link to a good one) ?


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    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,109 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    What would the question be?


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    Tesco TripleChicken
    Registered Users Posts: 164 ✭✭Tesco TripleChicken


    spurious wrote: »
    What would the question be?

    I'm not sure but just an essay with 4-5 poems covered as my notes are a bit all over the place.
    Or if anyone has good notes on each of his poems. I can't find any short easy notes online.


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    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,109 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    This is the problem with learned off essays taken from other people. Find an actual exam question and build your own essay in answer to it.

    You could have an essay with 4 or 5 poems mentioned which in one context might get an A grade and in another, depending on the question asked, would get zero marks.

    Know his poems, have experience of writing a couple of answers yourself and you will be prepared for any question that comes up, not trying to jam somebody else's work into the question asked. This is how we used to do it in the old days, before people needed samples of everything.

    That said, here's a link to a previous thread looking for the same:
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=86142400


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    missguided
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    Much easier to formulate your own, you'll lose marks if you're rattling off a preprepared essay that doesn't answer the question properly. I normally write 3/4 to a page on 4 poems and then practice adapting this to any question in the exam papers, use your own personal response, notes in the back of the poetry book and online and you can get a solid answer.


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    Calvin
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    It's also best, for the actual exam, to learn off universal quotes that can relate to multiple themes.


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