Hardy will be there in english

smemon

ive seen the paper, he's there :cool:

ok, i didnt see it. but he's gonna be there. only an absolute idiot would predict he won't come up.

here's the deal:
-he hasnt been on in 6 years or something stupid like that.
-he's not on until 2011 after this year.

conclusion:
they won't put a poet on a course and not give a question on him :rolleyes:

end of discussion on poetry in english. now go away and learn hardy. :cool:

michelle_ie

give me ur hardy essay u wrote then! Cause some dumb ass teachers didnt do him with us....

MB44

ye can i please have the essay too ?

whassupp2

MB44 wrote:

ye can i please have the essay too ?

me too

abercrombie

muuaahhahahahaha i've done hardy!!!!! come on A1!!

whassupp2

This will help with hardy

http://www.skoool.ie/skoool/examcentre_sc.asp?id=3627

smemon

well actually ive got hardy notes done up in word.

my heart wants me to give them to yee but my head tells me otherwise

google him. that's my advice

GrumPy

smemon wrote:

well actually ive got hardy notes done up in word.

my heart wants me to give them to yee but my head tells me otherwise

google him. that's my advice

pssst, PM GrumPy, you know you wanna!!!!!!!

NADA

Yeah hardy will be there. I didn't do him though. I'm hoping that John Donne comes up!

ThrownAway

C'mon Hopkins

Why does everyone hate Hopkins What'd the guy ever do to ye

My final decsion - I'm learning

Hopkins
Bishiop
Hardy :mad:

If they don't come up then they can feck off I'll be in denial and write an essay on hopkins and just scratch out the other poet

Attractive Nun

Stupid Hardy, worst poet on the course. Except Bishop, who is a disaster. And maybe Longley, who just annoys me, the beardy bastard. Yet those three look certain to come up. Hopefully a bit of Donne will ease the pain.

i'm doing

Hardy - Cause i can write on him, and he's bound to come up.
Plath - Cause i love her poetry, and could easily write 5/6 pages on her (she's not coming up though )

Donne - Meh... I can answer on him...
Longley - Love Ceasefire, and can mould other answers to that.
Eliot - Meh..

But Hardy and Plath are the ones i'm doing most

OctavarIan

I hope he does come up cos I've learnt (learned? oh fúck!) his stuff the best.

[edit]I'm talking about Hardy, of course.

MB44

Bishop = the biggest b*tch who wrote poetry. all she talks about is fish. avoid her like the plague. i couldnt write a half page on her. Now donne better come up or hardy but i ned a good essay on hardy.

Rockerette

All she talks about it fish?!?!





seriosuly guys, do some of you just not UNDERSTAND poetry???

Funkstard

Elizabeth Bishop is probably my fav. poet on the course, and The Fish my favourite poem! I know it's not what she intended...but I can't help but feel soo sorry for it! When I read it I was like....she better not ****in kill the fish, and then she didn't so it was all good

Muiriosa

smemon wrote:

ok, i didnt see it. but he's gonna be there. only an absolute idiot would predict he won't come up.

end of discussion on poetry in english. now go away and learn hardy. :cool:

Did u learn any other poet Smemon???

michelle_ie

see elizabeth bishop was a raging alcoholic with like no stability in her life and who talked about fish and slyvia plath cooked herself in the oven............... hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm weirdossss

smemon

Muiriosa wrote:

Did u learn any other poet Smemon???

we done longley, bishop and plath in class along with hardy.

i myself have just focused on hardy. i'll run over bishop tomorrow night (just to make sure she's dead )

hardy all the way. 100% banker. dont waste your time on anything else.

Funkstard

smemon wrote:

we done longley, bishop and plath in class along with hardy.

i myself have just focused on hardy. i'll run over bishop tomorrow night (just to make sure she's dead )

hardy all the way. 100% banker. dont waste your time on anything else.

That's such a 'famous last words..' line

smemon

Funkstard wrote:

That's such a 'famous last words..' line

we'll see about that in 2 days time. i'll be the one laughing

i'll be laughing whilst your head is full of useless poetry from other poets in english going into the irish exam:D

Funkstard

Er...I wish I was like that....I haven't actually gotten around to learning any actual poetry though..

willowmegs

Ive studied bishop, hardy and longley

smemon

Funkstard wrote:

Er...I wish I was like that....I haven't actually gotten around to learning any actual poetry though..

good man, better to be that way than learning every bit of information you receive off by heart.

i hate textperts. bluffing all the way

bobneedshelpnow

smemon wrote:

well actually ive got hardy notes done up in word.

my heart wants me to give them to yee but my head tells me otherwise

google him. that's my advice [/QUOTE

Thank you -you are my god

Sawa

Ok so which year did he come up so i can see a question on him?
Im just gonna abandon Eliot and do Hardy now even though I didn't do anything on him all year, Im just gonna look at three of his poems:
Drummer Hodge
When I set Out
Convergance of the Twain

should that be alright?

Orizio

Rockerette wrote:

All she talks about it fish?!?!

seriosuly guys, do some of you just not UNDERSTAND poetry???

I know right?Bishop is a fantastic poet imo,and a lot easier to write on then Hardy.

Learnt Bishop,Plath,Longley and Yeats because I hate Hardy and his grim little poetry with a vengence.

Orizio

Sawa wrote:

Ok so which year did he come up so i can see a question on him?
Im just gonna abandon Eliot and do Hardy now even though I didn't do anything on him all year, Im just gonna look at three of his poems:
Drummer Hodge
When I set Out
Convergance of the Twain

should that be alright?

No-you need to write on 6 poems during the essay.Write a few paragraphs on 4 of them(and you can't pick all of the ordinary level poems either)and refer to two other ones somewhere duringthe essay.

Writing on 3 will leave you with a pretty large disadvantage.

Sawa

In my mock i did an essay on longley and only mentioned two poems got 35/50, but i dunno...

Yeah i just realised there are no questions on Hardy, has anyone got a sample question on Hardy?? Just so I can see what they could ask?

Orizio

Oddly enough the other English teacher in the school seemed to think that writing on three only was alright.

However I regard him as a bit of a tit so 4 analysed and 2 briefly it is.

Rob30888

Usually 4 is good and a reference somewhere along the way to another. A lad in the class only did three though and got the highest in the mocks, though...

Also, be sure and say somewhere along the way "my personal fave poem is..." Examiners love it

Rockerette

when I open the exam on Wednesday afternoon, the first thing im gonna do is check the poets.. purely too see if Smemon was wrong.

oooh that'd be great wouldnt it?!

Sawa

Sooo, has anyone got a sample question on Hardy?? Just so I can see what they could ask? Please. I can't find one anywhere.

Orizio

I'm not a religious man in anyway whatsoever-not since that priest told me off for flirting with a girl whilst standing at the back of the church-however I'm going to say a million hail mary's on tuesday night just to make sure that chauvinstic sob Hardy doesn't come up.

And when he doesn't come up,I'm going to come back on this thread and laugh my ass off.:D

smemon

Rockerette wrote:

when I open the exam on Wednesday afternoon, the first thing im gonna do is check the poets.. purely too see if Smemon was wrong.

oooh that'd be great wouldnt it?!

you know i'm right im the master tactician, i wouldnt back hardy if their was a chance he wouldnt come up. i've studied the past papers, studied the future course poets and Hardy is odds on favourite to come up.

he was on the pre's in some shape or form, couldnt be bothered searching for the papers now. if you want to cut corners and have a no-nonsense approach like me, you'll learn hardy above anyone else as he's a dead cert.

OctavarIan

Merde!

Don't start praying for Hardy to not come up! Some of us actually studied him (along with other poets of course) and would benefit from his appearance!

Sawa

smemon wrote:

you know i'm right im the master tactician, i wouldnt back hardy if their was a chance he wouldnt come up. i've studied the past papers, studied the future course poets and Hardy is odds on favourite to come up.

he was on the pre's in some shape or form, couldnt be bothered searching for the papers now. if you want to cut corners and have a no-nonsense approach like me, you'll learn hardy above anyone else as he's a dead cert.

He wasn't on my mock paper, just checked there. ok im gonna try learn him without knowing what sorta thing would be asked. ****!

Lord Oz

I'm glad I'm not the only one banking on Hardy coming up. How many pages/words should I be aiming to write in the exam? As for Bishop, she can stay sleeping with the fishes.

smemon

he was on my mocks anyway. ironically i didnt answer on him

you'll be asked the same stuff you get asked on all poets. something like:

"Thomas Hardy is great and his poetry is lovely, discuss..."

Lord Oz

smemon wrote:

he was on my mocks anyway. ironically i didnt answer on him

you'll be asked the same stuff you get asked on all poets. something like:

"Thomas Hardy is great and his poetry is lovely, discuss..."

LOL, I would seriously fall over laughing in the exam if that came up!

Funkstard

Any question on the new course is just a personal response. That's all the examiners want to see - your response to the poetry. The questions never deviate from 'personal response' 'imagine you are giving a talk...which poems would you choose and why', 'write a letter to him/her telling him/her why you like his poetry'....all comes back to the same thing: what you think.

That's why there has to be 'I', 'I found that..' 'In my opinion' etc..literally all over the place.

That's my take on it anyway

Rockerette

oh smemon i do fully expect Hardy to be there, i just would have a little giggle to myself if he wasnt...

PrettyInPunk

is it a DEFINATE??im scareddddd.....what if its not :-(

smemon

PrettyInPunk wrote:

is it a DEFINATE??im scareddddd.....what if its not :-(

i think its a definate. put it this way - if i had nothing learned and had to cram 1 poet, id cram hardy.

ThrownAway

I'll have the biggest grin on my face if he doesn't come up

PrettyInPunk

err you.ERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR>

Particle-Boy

I don't think it's worth anyone's while assuming that Hardy is definitely coming up. That is far too risky. The fact that he hasn't come up in years doesn't mean anything...
Not discrediting the heads up or anything but just don't study ONLY Hardy.
(perhaps I am saying this because I'm not doing him... -_- - I'm doing Plath, Bishop and Longley!)

Rob30888

I'd an odd dream last night that people opened English Paper 2 and a big cheer went up from everyone

Rockerette

hehe at the end of the day, it's only 50 marks.. if you can make up something about a poet, even if you havent revised him, just write about what you remember, you should at least get 1/2 the marks i think...

so im not too fussed, i know what each of the poets are on about most of the time, so raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaambling on should work wonders if i dont like the questions on the poets i know really well

smemon

lads and ladeez, as soon as you get paper 2 and open it and you see Hardy there, just think of me - i'll have a smug grin on my face with my collar up and my chest puffed out

in your head, you'll hear me say - "i told you so"

GrumPy

smemon wrote:

lads and ladeez, as soon as you get paper 2 and open it and you see Hardy there, just think of me - i'll have a smug grin on my face with my collar up and my chest puffed out

in your head, you'll hear me say - "i told you so"

We need sample answer tbh