Unseen Poem

Kersmash

How'd ye handle it? Just interested to see. I said it was overly hopeful, but also did a bit about the gloomy, depressing start.

callaway92

Same...gloomy and depressing for (a) (i)
for (ii) the image i chose was the first 2 lines of the poem..first day of spring stepping out into the sun...cant remember exactly

Crow92

Did the personal response, said how the poem lived up to the expectations of the title of a seed being persistent and bringing hope with new life after the unstoppable storm that was winter....did about a page, first thing I did actually.

scherzo!

I said "The poet handles a religiously-charged theme in a calm and original atheistic way." Then I started just praising the hell out of it and a whole load of other BS like "The creativity of the poem impacted me considerably".

Kersmash

For the image I chose the one about the flower with the raindrops on it. Ranted on about the metaphor for hope and strength of the human spirit, and a good bit about the power of nature.

frser32

it was a fairly accessible poem..thought the theme was the conflict between religion and science..:)

Finical

I kind of bluffed the personal response one as my time was limited, didn't get Lear done either but I done a plan with ending and where I would have went.

cedomination

Kersmash wrote: »

For the image I chose the one about the flower with the raindrops on it. Ranted on about the metaphor for hope and strength of the human spirit, and a good bit about the power of nature.

Chose that too, I also said it was a happy and uplifting. Also mentioned the contrast between the gloomy house and the hope and strength in the flowers.

validusername

I only had 10mins left for the unseen poetry so just managed about a page of waffle.

paul08

i didnt really like the poem but i did the personal response and talked about the poet overcoming adversity and the images used being symbolic of purity and innocence

Orlaladuck

Lol I just said it was joyous and loads about contrast between the house and the garden.
Seriously crap poem though :L

vicksterchick

I did part (A). For (i) I said that the tone was more gracious/hopeful than anything, and I went on a bit about the poem being a metaphor for a tough time in her life, the poet being grateful for what she has left now that it's over, etc. Didn't really see religion as a major theme.

For (ii), I talked about the image of the plants holding the raindrops "like a promise", or whatever it was. I said it was a hopeful image, and I liked it because it was worded in an odd way.

gemxpink

Kersmash wrote: »

For the image I chose the one about the flower with the raindrops on it. Ranted on about the metaphor for hope and strength of the human spirit, and a good bit about the power of nature.

exact same as me!

Healium

I thought it was pretty hard to talk about, so my personal response wasn't so personal at all..

Moshimoshi

I thought it was about religion and spirituality.

lucybrown

what are linpids or whatever it said?

johnmcdnl

i basically said that the winter was a metaphor for the church or religion that she was trapped in the darkness... however now that she has stepped out of the church there is brightness for her and she can see the true beauty of natural and life... this is a contrast to what the church want us to believe as they try to feed us lies about a god controlling life but now she can truly understand the greatest of life and she praises it now that she is in the warm bright spring and beginning of the rest of her life (spring naturally beinging a metaphor for new life)

twas easy enough i though - easy to understand but i couldn't find many poetic tools bar the imagery and metaphors...

lucybrown

jesus i defo got 0 in that then

Kersmash

lucybrown wrote: »

what are linpids or whatever it said?

ceol18

i thought it was about recovering from an illness...like depression or something

lucybrown

ooh i see....thanks!

ceol18

ahaaa...roysh me too then

corolla 1991

lucybrown wrote: »

jesus i defo got 0 in that then

Yea same as, I talked about how the storm had damaged her flowers?!

kiwi205

Kersmash wrote: »

For the image I chose the one about the flower with the raindrops on it. Ranted on about the metaphor for hope and strength of the human spirit, and a good bit about the power of nature.

snap! except i said it was nature reaching out to the speaker and apologising for the devastation the storm caused.....and i said the feeling at the start was bitterness but then it turned into optimism.....i have never heard of lupin flowers in my life but God i used the name of that flower like there was no tomorrow!

lucybrown

i just talked about how the flowers showed peace after the storm? haha oh well ****kkkkk it nothing we can do about it now.

MilesReilly

I messed this one up, due to hating the poem, it aggravated me for some reason. Sure I answered it but I kept thinking why this poem? its sh*t

everything else was ok.
The question for Kavanagh was perfect I remember thinking to myself yesterday, I bet its the whole seeing extraordinary in the ordinary thing
Why did so many ppl rely on Boland, didn't she show up last year

MartyMur

I rushed the personal response for the unseen poetry question. I said something about hope I think and I spoke with conviction, that's all the matters right?

H2student

Er.. I wasn't sure what it was about. It said personal response and impact, so I said it made me think about how I was happy to see the snow stop this year after those few weeks of snow.

Kavkid

I left it until the very last with 10 minutes left, I did it pretty well for the time. I said that it was about hope and renewal. And the image about the seed with the raindrop and stuff was the one I discussed.

RyanK

Unseen poetry is flexible. It doesn't matter if you interpreted it wrong, as long as you back up your points with reference to the poem, you get marks.

!?!

ceol18 wrote: »

i thought it was about recovering from an illness...like depression or something

so did I! I talked about recuperating after a traumatic event, hence the destructive storm

kfpt

well mayb i diddnt see all that in the poem...

i said she went into her garden after winter ...saw a flower ..and she was happy about it..........

lookingfor?

I said it was about a wife better how killed her and there child is haveing a new hope to his life that he is now going
eg god pry morther
stream big fight ?

Ashashi

I said that the mood was awe and relief.

Part 2, I picked the image of the fingertips and the raindrop. Shows that the seed grasped on to something to survive, determination etc, and that the poet uses personification, and it gave the seed human like features, prevoking a lot of emotion, as it reminded me of a child.

^weird but I thought it was good.

pecker1992

i didnt get a chance to do it

kfpt

well thats a big fat 0 for me then.......i think im just a shallow person:D

Eire-Dearg

frser32 wrote: »

it was a fairly accessible poem..thought the theme was the conflict between religion and science..:)

How could I forget the word science! I used "astrology" :rolleyes: #fail

anothernight

Eire-Dearg wrote: »

How could I forget the word science! I used "astrology" :rolleyes: #fail

Argh hate it when you forget words in an exam! I forgot the word "betrays" when writing about Edmund haha. Nothing we can do now


As for the poem, I said the mood was optimistic and hopeful, of renewal and new beginnings. Then I pretty much analysed the mechanics of it and mentioned the contrast of its first half, etc.

For the favourite image I also picked the fingers and raindrop, but I'm pretty sure I messed up that one a bit because I hated the poem and didn't know what to write that I hadn't written above >_<

gemxpink

Saw lupins and automatically thought of Lupus, wrote 'Lupus' down instead a few times until I realised that I was quoting a disease instead of a flower, cheers Lady Gaga.

Ashashi

It was a pretty cool image, cause I imagined a baby. Dunno why, seed=youth=baby I guess...

irish_man

i just said theres a dramatic conflict between the poets situation and that of the flowers, whatever came to my head really.
i didnt think the poem was too bad pity i didnt have much time to do it

CasualLiKE

anothernight wrote: »

Argh hate it when you forget words in an exam! I forgot the word "betrays" when writing about Edmund haha. Nothing we can do now


As for the poem, I said the mood was optimistic and hopeful, of renewal and new beginnings. Then I pretty much analysed the mechanics of it and mentioned the contrast of its first half, etc.

For the favourite image I also picked the fingers and raindrop, but I'm pretty sure I messed up that one a bit because I hated the poem and didn't know what to write that I hadn't written above >_<

Haha I wrote something very similar to what you were on about there on question 1 and I also used the same quote for the image XD

fufureida

scherzo! wrote: »

I said "The poet handles a religiously-charged theme in a calm and original atheistic way." Then I started just praising the hell out of it and a whole load of other BS like "The creativity of the poem impacted me considerably".

religious? You mean atheist right? The poet didn't believe in god.
Lol

I said I disliked the pagan ish qualities.

Danger781

I did awful in the unseen poem..

For my first paragraph I pretty much just said it was comprised of three sentences. First sentence was the poets despair and hope her garden survived the winter. Second was her joy after seeing the flowers had survived. Third was about her praising the seed and the sun instead of thanking God.

Next pararagraph was about the poem having a muscial feel because of the lack of full stops. Different aspects of the language, imagery, alliteration.. etc.

Finally a personal respone

calleochosam

I said that the mood was gloomy/depressing to begin with and that it became better as the poem went on, as her 'personal difficulties' at home and her suffering had been relieved os something! And my image was the one of the final lines bout the sun and the seed, as it represented hope n ****e, blahhhhhhhaaa!


Bahahahahah My mate said that the poet had a case of the 'winter blues' and that she was suffering from a medical case of SAD( seasonal affective disorder) with the changing of seasons, hahahah pretty unique answer I thought! :L

Mr Cawley

change in mood from gloomy to thankful.

image of loopyloo flower appealed due to personification and its emotional meaning for Poet

fauxshow

I thought I did an OK answer but I'm worried now because people are harping on about all the Chuch stuff being significant...

I did the personal response and just said I like the poet's personal voice and personal engagement with the theme of Spring which is something we can all relate to, the alliteration and rhyming made for pleasant-on-the-ear language use, the imagery was vivid and made me feel almost like I was the one steppin out of the house, and I like the metaphors used and the pathetic fallacy (wasn't sure if it was personification or pathetic fallacy) of the flowers having fingertips and that the poem was just generall pleasant and undemanding and showed that the simple things in life could offer hope and happiness etc. which any Leaving Cert student could relate to.

Fete

Orlaladuck wrote: »

Lol I just said it was joyous and loads about contrast between the house and the garden.
Seriously crap poem though :L

Same for me. Chose the contrasting light and colours from the gloomy house into the bright garden as my image. Only did 3 quarters of a page though due to lack of time.

yaknowamsayin

Kersmash wrote: »

For the image I chose the one about the flower with the raindrops on it. Ranted on about the metaphor for hope and strength of the human spirit, and a good bit about the power of nature.

I chose that too. Considering I had literally two minutes to write the answer I wrote that its a symbol of growth and that the promise is that the flower will grow and that its saying sorry for not growing during winter.