English Poetry Predictions Poll

thomond2006

Well lads, only 3 days to English Paper II.

My Macbeth and Comparative are fine but I'm struggling with my bloody poetry.

If you have heard a prediction for a poet, click the option on the poll.

It's a multiple choice poll btw.

Thanks

Thomond2006

BLARG

Rich

Walcott - Never asked ( I think).
Montague - 80th Birthday
Bishop - Woman poet, only two on the course, one asked every year and rich came up last year.
Longley - Due to come up.
Keats - Due also apparently.

haloauto

Rich

I really hope either Walcott or Bishop will be on the paper otherwise :eek::eek::eek: oh noes

MrPirate

Rich

BLARG wrote: »

Walcott - Never asked ( I think).
Montague - 80th Birthday
Bishop - Woman poet, only two on the course, one asked every year and rich came up last year.
Longley - Due to come up.
Keats - Due also apparently.

My exact choice. I think I'll specialise in Bishop though. I don't see how people don't like her, I find here poetry quite nice!

Fringe

Rich

Walcott and Keats are most likely followed by Bishop who could be replaced by Rich (unlikely) then followed by Longley who could be replaced by Montague (likely).

ImJohn

Rich

I'm going to do Walcott and Montague, every other poet for me is just too boring and I can't study them.

zonEEE

Keats

Im praying for Montague or Bishop!

galway.gaa

Longley

ive only covered keats. hope he comes up!! legend

_sparkie_

Walcott

galway.gaa wrote: »

ive only covered keats. hope he comes up!! legend

thats not a very good approach at all.

galway.gaa

Longley

_sparkie_ wrote: »

thats not a very good approach at all.

please explain why? im 99% sure hes comin up. so whats the point of learnin another one?

_sparkie_

Walcott

i will be thinking of you on thursday morning, there is no way of knowing who or what is going to come up. im just saying its kinda risky only studying 1 poet.

SligoBrewer

Rich

My whole class is banking on the Young English Poet himself.
He should come up though. Something of an older order poet always comes up allegedly, and as there's only one on the course...:cool:

galway.gaa

Longley

_sparkie_ wrote: »

i will be thinking of you on thursday morning, there is no way of knowing who or what is going to come up. im just saying its kinda risky only studying 1 poet.

its fairly easy to predict the poetry really. and i think you have to predict in many subjects cause there is just no other way of getting the work covered. and i relly hate english so i have been cutting the work load a bit

Swizz

Larkin

Prescribed Poetry = 12.5% marks of the overall paper

Im more worried about Macbeth

galway.gaa

Longley

im most worried about the comparative. i havnt really done much. it was my worst answered in the mocks too

candlegrease

Swizz wrote: »

Prescribed Poetry = 12.5% marks of the overall paper

Im more worried about Macbeth

Macbeth is worth only 10 marks extra. Lol.

louliewan

Rich

try looking into Kingship- writing about the three different types of kingship(Duncan,Macbeth and Malcom)
Evil or Deception may come up also, you can mention witches in both.

Jam-Fly

Rich

Yeah the big trouble is Longley and Montague are very similar, so it's likely one or the other will come up, but not both.

Bishop will probably come up, but Rich could also come up as the female poet.

I'm still only confident in my Longley answer so I should probably do something on Bishop tonight/tomorrow!

louliewan

Rich

As a mature student, I found it hard to get my head around the layout of the paper and the Comparative was my worst area, I have learned off a few useful phrases like, in contrast, similarly,however,in the same way,on the other hand, etc.

Swizz

Larkin

candlegrease wrote: »

Macbeth is worth only 10 marks extra. Lol.

I find it alot harder to study for. In the comparative and poetry ya can kinda prep for answers by making points. For Macbeth theres just so much!

Saruwatari

Larkin

Swizz wrote: »

I find it alot harder to study for. In the comparative and poetry ya can kinda prep for answers by making points. For Macbeth theres just so much!

Yeah, I'm pretty **** at Macbeth. Didn't answer it too well in the Mocks, not expecting a great result with it this time round.

thomond2006

keep em going lads. Thanks a lot!!!!

Homicidal_jesus

Keats----irish and historic poet!
Walcott---first year in it,first carribeen poet...and his epic
Bishop---female and rich came up last year
Longley/Montague---Hopefully montague!

BEST OF LUCK 2 EVERYONE

Homicidal_jesus

Swizz wrote: »

I find it alot harder to study for. In the comparative and poetry ya can kinda prep for answers by making points. For Macbeth theres just so much!

ya im the same with that theres so many possiblitys for questions im hoping for macbeth/lady macbeth question or kingship

Mycroft H

There is always

1. Usa woman (bishop falls into here)

1 classic (keats only one. Last up 2001)

1 irish man (longley or montague)

1 other that doesnt fall into the other areas (walcot or larkin)

Its been like that for the last twenty years or so my grinds teacher says

thomond2006

Is Bishop a near certainty so?

If yes, please thank this post.

papu

Pretty sure Walcott is going to come up , he was on both our mocks , him, Keats , Bishop and one more .

_sparkie_

Walcott

landyman wrote: »

There is always

1. Usa woman (bishop falls into here)

1 classic (keats only one. Last up 2001)

1 irish man (longley or montague)

1 other that doesnt fall into the other areas (walcot or larkin)

Its been like that for the last twenty years or so my grinds teacher says

larkin was up last year, so i dont think there is a big chance of him coming up again this year.

Homicidal_jesus

ive looked through the past papers and the same poets have never appeared 2 years in a row!!

Jello

Rich

Homicidal_jesus wrote: »

ive looked through the past papers and the same poets have never appeared 2 years in a row!!

Bishop came up in 2001 and 2002...

ImJohn

Rich

LONGLEY, BISHOP, KEATS ARE BANKERS!!!!! DON'T WORRY!!!! Than it's between Walcott and Montague. If I'm wrong I will donate 20 euro to boards.ie

thomond2006

Larkin, Mahon and Rich came up last year.

Homicidal_jesus

Jello wrote: »

Bishop came up in 2001 and 2002...

damn you!!lol bishop sucks anyway

thomond2006

ImJohn wrote: »

LONGLEY, BISHOP, KEATS ARE BANKERS!!!!! DON'T WORRY!!!! Than it's between Walcott and Montague. If I'm wrong I will donate 20 euro to boards.ie

NO YOU WILL NOT, YOU WILL DONATE YOUR 600 POINTs LC TO THOSE WHO TRUSTED YOUR WRONG ADVICE. :D

Oh and 500 euro a piece.

You have been warned.

ImJohn

Rich

lol no problems!! :pac:

thomond2006

Thanks to everybody who voted.

If anyone from my school is reading this, good luck!!

Garf

Rich

Homicidal_jesus wrote: »

ive looked through the past papers and the same poets have never appeared 2 years in a row!!

One year they repeated two poets.

2001: Bishop + Longley
2002: Bishop + Longley

Justin5150

Homicidal_jesus wrote: »

Keats----irish and historic poet!
Walcott---first year in it,first carribeen poet...and his epic
Bishop---female and rich came up last year
Longley/Montague---Hopefully montague!

BEST OF LUCK 2 EVERYONE

You are doing your leaving cert tomorrow and you think Keats is Irish???:eek:
I dont envy you!

SarcasticFairy

Justin5150 wrote: »

You are doing your leaving cert tomorrow and you think Keats is Irish???:eek:
I dont envy you!

That is rather helpful the day before the exam. (Two days, if you're counting it as P2, I suppose...)


Anyway, I'm learning Bishop, and Walcott, and glancing over Longley. I possibly already posted this in this thread, but I'm too tried to remember so whatevs. Hopefully a nice question comes up on one of them

StargazerLily

The new course was only examined for the first time in 2001 and the the lists of poets change every year so the basis for all these predictions (they 'always'/'never' ask.....)is a bit shaky! The mocks are also no indication of what will come up - they are set by teachers working for DEB/Examcraft etc ....don't rely on who or what came up in mocks when trying to predict the real LC papers.

Davidius

If Bishop doesn't come up, people will be pissed off and it will be funny.

degausserxo

Isn't Montague up for a Nobel Prize next year?

SligoBrewer

Rich

Davidius wrote: »

If Bishop doesn't come up, people will be pissed off and it will be funny.

+1

meathawk

Walcott

I am thinking of just doing 3 poets.Longley, Montague and Bishop.I amn't sure if this a big risk or not.It seems somewhat safe I would've though but then again "expect the unexpected"

ImJohn

Rich

lol they don't have the balls to leave her out.

SligoBrewer

Rich

ImJohn wrote: »

lol they don't have the balls to leave her out.

Wanna bet? :pac::pac:

meathawk

Walcott

I really just want Longley.It'd be so good if he came up.

Overature

its both bishops and montagues 80th birthdays this year so they are really likely to come up

SarcasticFairy

Overature wrote: »

its both bishops and montagues 80th birthdays this year so they are really likely to come up

Pretty sure Bishop is dead...

I think it was Longley's 80th this year as well though... It's definitely Montagues and someone elses....

SligoBrewer

Rich

SarcasticFairy wrote: »

Pretty sure Bishop is dead...

I think it was Longley's 80th this year as well though... It's definitely Montagues and someone elses....

Bishop was born in 1929 as well;)

Longley

If Keats doesn't come up in the paper tomorrow people, think of me, think of poor JammyDodger. The joys of only studying one poet.