Poetry :)

shocxxxxxx

Just out of curiosity...how many poets is everyone studying? I'm only doing 3...please let me know how many you're doing and which ones...:o

Shanotheslayer

Im taking a huge gamble!

On Kavanagh and Longley, and a bit of Boland:/

JoeyBuddy

3 aswell.
Boland, Rich, Yeats.

One is bound to come up.

I'm doing about 4 poems on each, learning 2/3 quotes for each poem.
And maybe reffer to a 5th poem.

Slugs

Keats Rich and Boland... I have Longley as a failsafe, just won't have any quotes for him. How long is the poetry meant to be?

H2student

Doing 4, Boland, kavanagh, Longley & Walcott.

I thought theoretically, I'm covered, since there's 7 poets (I think) on the course and they give you four options. But, seeing so many people doing 5+ poets is making me worried that I am wrong about this....

Slugs

There's 4 Irish and 2 women... Unless they decide to screw you and go with Elliot yeats keats and rich (which I doubt) you'll be fine...

JoeyBuddy

There's 8 poets on the course. There's a small chance one of those won;t come up. But it's very small.

Finical

Yeats and Boland. :eek::D

H2student

O_o CRAP! I forgot my textbook doesn't do Adrienne Riche! Now I'm stuck. I literally don't have a clue about Keats or Yeats and I didn't do Eliot or Riche -_-.

Slugs

How long should a poetry question be people?!

shocxxxxxx

I don't feel too bad so...i though i was the only one in my whole year that was only doing 3...still though it's unfortunate to say that there will be some people across the country who will read the paper and realise they're screwed...i just hop im not one of them...say if poets are selected randomly by a computer (whoich they're not...they're selected by people with brains thank god!) there's a 1 in 14 chance thet you''ll be screwed if you only study 3...scary but there is worse odds i guess....

shocxxxxxx

The poetry q should take 50 mins and be about 3 to 4 pages with normal size writing...:)

Shanotheslayer

shocxxxxxx wrote: »

there's a 1 in 14 chance thet you''ll be screwed if you only study 3...scary but there is worse odds i guess....

Were lucky it's not 1 in 15:pac:

JoeyBuddy

I generally do about 3 pages...deal with 4 poems..maybe 5.
It won't get me an A, but I'll take 35/50 or so.

Conor108

3 Boland, Kavanagh, Longley.

I will RUSH through Yeats n' Elliot just in case but I'm seriously hoping Eavan Boland is up

shocxxxxxx

I just looked at all the different forums...usually you would see "1 viewing" or "5 viewing"...the leaving cert forum has 308 viewing! Wouldnt ya think we'd all be in a corner somewhere studyin!

seanbmc

Hoping for Yeats as he's my favourite poet on the course.

kev9100

I know Yeats, Eliot, Boland and Kavanagh fairly well and I have a rough understanding of Rich.

curlypops

Boland, Yeats or Kavanagh..

please let Boland come up though!
i know her best

Mwah

boland and yeats :P

Conor108

curlypops wrote: »

please let Boland come up though!
i know her best

Amen

stevenfinnegan

I'm hoping that the following will come up:

• Boland.
• Longley.
• Kavanagh.

I might just have a quick read through my Rich answer, just to be on the safe side.

Feeky Magee

Yeats and Longley. One of them is bound to come up. It's 50 marks, people over-commit to the poetry way too much.

shocxxxxxx

Feeky Magee wrote: »

Yeats and Longley. One of them is bound to come up. It's 50 marks, people over-commit to the poetry way too much.

Definatly! Its only worths 12.5% !

MagsK93

Boland Kavanagh and Riche, i normally do 5 poems if i have the time...hoping i will!

FordieMUFC

JoeyBuddy wrote: »

3 aswell.
Boland, Rich, Yeats.

One is bound to come up.

I'm doing about 4 poems on each, learning 2/3 quotes for each poem.
And maybe reffer to a 5th poem.

Exactly this, except Boland Kavanagh and Longley!

Bob the Builder

I am only doing Kavanagh.

So I am doing only one poet. Ah well.

Mau5

Know Yeats the best, then Boland or Rich followed by Kavanagh probably, Will probably only look at Yeats and Boland though tonight to be honest

Diabhal Beag

In this Order
Boland
Rich
Yeats
Kavanagh

I'm worried about those who said they are doing 2 poets. Don't take that risk guys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bob the Builder

Diabhal Beag wrote: »

In this Order
Boland
Rich
Yeats
Kavanagh

I'm worried about those who said they are doing 2 poets. Don't take that risk guys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm doing one.

I am confident both Yeats and Boland will come up.

RetroRainbow

^ Same. Although Boland has been tipped all year, and I know her the best I'm still rather worried. It's hard not to be, I guess!