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What gambles are you taking?

  • 09-06-2010 08:41PM
    #1
    Site Banned Posts: 2,719 ✭✭✭


    Here is mine...:rolleyes::(

    Poetry : Boland, tiny bit of Yeats

    Lear: Just go with it. Might learn a few essays now.

    Comparitive: GV+V

    Unseen: Look over it tomorrow.

    So how screwed am I and what about the rest of ye?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 440 ✭✭gant0


    You could be spot on or you got be absolutly ****ed!!!:o....I'm doing Bolan,Kav,Longley and riche(just a back up in worst case scenario).I'm also just kinda wingin it for Lear.I've learned loads of quotes and going to watch Lear now and I have prepared His character question and Good vs Evil.Kinda sketchy on the comparative,always have been.Doing GV+V and a little bit of CC(also just a back up).


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 189 ✭✭RetroRainbow


    Definitely taking a gamble with the poetry. But as someone said earlier on, it's only about 12.5% of the total paper.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 182 ✭✭Mwah


    you're like me.... lol
    ive learned so much for eavan boland she cant not come up!!!
    ive read over my lear notes but not quotes.... and im just doing gv+vp
    for lear urgg done nature love as a redemptive force and lear as a character


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 96 ✭✭Indigo Sunrise


    Literary genre
    Eliot and Yeats
    And these aren't very well done either.

    For Lear I'm just learning a few quotes on Lear.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15 gleoite


    im about the same just about know yeats a tiny tiiiiiny TINY bit of kavanagh if yeats doesnt come up..

    Gv.v if that doesn't come up........oh god

    and lear i can rattle off stuff about the power of imagery and the point of the sub plot.

    honestly if yeats and gv.v dont come up.. i will cry hysterically. :eek:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 575 ✭✭✭IrishKev


    Taking a gamble with the poetry, just learning Boland and Rich and hoping they stick to at least one female poet.
    Lear, like the OP I'm just hoping I'll know how to answer it tbh, kinda screwed for that.
    GV+V and Cultural Context for Comparitive, I find GV+V away easier than the rest of paper 2 really, I just discuss Setting, Opening, Key Relationships, Societies and Endings, which takes up 4-5 pages. Just adapt it around the question and it works IMO. :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11 MilesReilly


    Poet : Kavanagh know like 3 poems well, few others vaguely, I can bull**** well with Paddy K

    General vision and viewpoint: which ive never done before, gonna have to pull out some magic tricks here

    Lear: I know it ok..

    funny to think that I'm not worried, whats the point?!
    I know I'll pass and I'm off to art college next year I just need 2 higher C's and 4D's

    Good luck everyone!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 189 ✭✭RetroRainbow


    IrishKev wrote: »
    GV+V and Cultural Context for Comparitive, I find GV+V away easier than the rest of paper 2 really, I just discuss Setting, Opening, Key Relationships, Societies and Endings, which takes up 4-5 pages. Just adapt it around the question and it works IMO. :D

    I suppose it all boils down to your grasp of the texts you're doing! If you've an in depth knowledge, then GV+V is a breeze. In before someone saying that, of course, we're supposed to have an in depth knowledge of the texts. ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15 gleoite



    funny to think that I'm not worried, whats the point?!
    I know I'll pass and I'm off to art college next year I just need 2 higher C's and 4D's

    im SO jealous its not even funny. id LOVE to go to art college..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,116 ✭✭✭Professional Griefer


    DB10 wrote: »
    Here is mine...:rolleyes::(

    Poetry : Boland, tiny bit of Yeats

    Lear: Just go with it. Might learn a few essays now.

    Comparitive: GV+V

    Unseen: Look over it tomorrow.

    So how screwed am I and what about the rest of ye?

    Pretty much exact same, but nothing on Yeats. And I'm gonna do my best to wing King Lear, won't look at unseen. :D


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 688 ✭✭✭lalee17


    Boland.. Small bit of Kavanagh learned..

    Hopefully GV & V will come up too, or I'm screwed...

    Lear is grand for me though, I think.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,116 ✭✭✭Professional Griefer


    Imagine this. Out of no where Boland just happened to come onto these forums, or any of the other poets who are still alive, and look into one of these threads, and then they see loads of studying only studying them for their LC, that must feel pretty cool....

    ''If I come up, they're sorted''.

    Weird, just thought of it there, ha:P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,148 ✭✭✭ciano1


    Yeats,Longley and some Boland
    GVV and a Bit of CC
    Know F*ck all about Lear!

    At this stage i'll be lucky just to pass English :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 96 ✭✭Indigo Sunrise


    ciano1 wrote: »
    Yeats,Longley and some Boland
    GVV and a Bit of CC
    Know F*ck all about Lear!

    At this stage i'll be lucky just to pass English :(

    Less than 2% fail HL English. If you have at least a basic knowledge of the texts you should be ok, even if you do no study. Well that's what I'm hoping :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,400 ✭✭✭PlayGirl


    shyte, everyone seems to be doing GVV and CC.. not LG !

    i know LG ! i like LG ! i can do LG :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,507 ✭✭✭Finical


    ciano1 wrote: »
    Yeats,Longley and some Boland
    GVV and a Bit of CC
    Know F*ck all about Lear!

    At this stage i'll be lucky just to pass English :(
    You'll be grand seriously. I know about the same. Need to go over something for Lear tomorrow and get a few quotes maybe. Make sure you know Lears character! I wouldn't be surprised to see that tomorrow.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,039 ✭✭✭Seloth


    Longely and Kav are my favs,With a bitta Boland and Myabe Yeats.

    GV+V and Cul Cont

    For lear,Just learning quotes,But a good few Fool ones.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,056 ✭✭✭WallyGUFC


    Heard of a dislexic guy who left out all poetry and got a C2...if you have any knowledge of the texts you'll be grand!:P


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 166 ✭✭A19B1C12


    For comparative is there not 2 choices?

    So Literary Genre and CC or GVV. The last two are essentially the same so I just realised why am I worrying so much especially since LG is the only really tough one.

    Seriously s***ting it for quotes though...Do you think 3 pages on Lear and poet would be enough?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,541 ✭✭✭anothernight


    PlayGirl wrote: »
    shyte, everyone seems to be doing GVV and CC.. not LG !

    i know LG ! i like LG ! i can do LG :(

    I'm doing LG ;) but also CC. I don't like GVV so I'm not bothering with it.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 80 ✭✭Enid.


    Poetry: Boland, Longley and Yeats (feel a bit freaked out about that, I'm thinking of doing bullet points on Kavanagh tomorrow)
    Comparative: GV+V and LG
    Lear: I have all the bits of their characters done from before, a bundle of essay notes to read and my quotes flashcards to go over. I'm not so sure about it...
    Unseen: Reading the back of my Poetry Now and leaving it at that. :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 189 ✭✭RetroRainbow


    Totally apt FB group for this thread. I'll give it another half hour or so before the member numbers rise to a hundred or so.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 80 ✭✭Moshimoshi


    I'm doing Eliot and LG. I'm trying to hit a balance between just crazy enough to work/too crazy to work.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,048 ✭✭✭Da Shins Kelly


    I'm going with Kavanagh and Yeats. Really hoping for Yeats. I'm leaving out both of the women. I hate them, so there's no way I'd write on them even if I could.

    Yeats, Yeats, Yeats!!

    For the win.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 96 ✭✭Indigo Sunrise


    Moshimoshi wrote: »
    I'm doing Eliot and LG. I'm trying to hit a balance between just crazy enough to work/too crazy to work.

    Oh snap. Let's hope it works out. Either way I'm sure my BSing skills will be put to great use tomorrow :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 95 ✭✭dannydfc


    Poets:
    Boland,Longley,Yeats,Kavanagh
    gonna go over longley and boland the most though.

    Stuck on literary genre.
    If that doesnt come up i am ****ed.

    As for king lear, i'm not sure where i am on that.:rolleyes:
    i'll pass anyway but if i do well on this paper i could do very well.
    que sera sera


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 264 ✭✭Liveit


    Well i don't really know any poetry, just hopefully make it up tomorrow
    single text: hopefully make it up tomorrow
    comparative: again.....make it up tomorrow :o


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 95 ✭✭dannydfc


    Liveit wrote: »
    Well i don't really know any poetry, just hopefully make it up tomorrow
    single text: hopefully make it up tomorrow
    comparative: again.....make it up tomorrow :o
    Good luck hahahha


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 231 ✭✭frser32


    poets: boland rich yeats, kavanagh back up
    comparative: gvv and lg
    lear: man more sinned against than sinning, lear journey, becomes more wise and knowledgeable etc >>adaptable to lear question
    thematic: evil and deceptions, betrayal and deception, redemptive love, filial ingratitude, >> adaptable for thematic question
    imagery: suffering, nature, blindness.
    adapt what you know to the question:D


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13 R0B0T_R0CK


    were doing dancing at lughnasa for single text :S

    But atleast i dont have to know too much lear for comparative!
    Im banking on lit gen for comparative
    and boland and yeats for poetry... maybe longley..

    I HATE UNSEEN POETRY


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 515 ✭✭✭Cormac2791


    In just learning kav, boland, and longley., gen v+v, cc, and the odd quote in Lear


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 814 ✭✭✭NotExactly


    Boland,Longley
    Gv + Vp
    Lear Character,Love as a Redemtive Force.
    :eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 211 ✭✭Stryderman


    Comparative: Trying to learn a General Vision & Viewpoint essay now.
    Poetry: None yet, either Boland or Kavanagh tomorrow morning.
    Lear: Nothing! wont have time, il just look over my notes.



    Im screwed :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 467 ✭✭pbowenroe


    Poetry: Longley, Boland and bit of Eliot (just in case)

    Comparative: Mainly GV&V but am ok at LG.

    Lear: I plan on winging it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 50 ✭✭0.M.GXX


    helllo.. ok so is everyone doing lear as their single text.. mone is dancing at lughnasa.. and i have the tempest for the comparative..does anyone know how many tempest quotes i should be using for comparative.. cause its pretty hard..

    i have literary genre ,boland n eliot done.. i hope eliot comes up... X
    anyone thee same?:confused:


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 50 ✭✭0.M.GXX


    R0B0T_R0CK wrote: »
    were doing dancing at lughnasa for single text :S
    me 2 what do you think the question will be??


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 75 ✭✭Scatterbrain


    Poetry: Yeats, with Boland as plan B.

    Comparative and King Lear: I'm just going to go with the flow of whatever comes up and try to wing it.
    Divine inspiration? Oh yeeeeah. :cool:


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