Poll of which poet you picked

Crow92

Didn't particulary want to make another tread but interested in which poet everyone attempted.

validusername

Kavanagh
personally don't like his poetry but I studied him well so I'm glad!

aimerlans

kavanagh

Conor108

Kavanagh. Got 4 pages on him and it was surprisingly decent but christ, the first few seconds of shock when I saw the poets.

ciano1

WB Yeats.... You sexy dead decomposed bastard!

Fernicia

Crow92 wrote: »

Didn't particulary want to make another tread but interested in which poet everyone attempted.

There should be a "Could not attempt" option.

Blerdiii

yeats was a dream of a question! and i only learnt the lake isle of inisfree an hour before so i was chuffed XD

stevenfinnegan

I did Kavanagh.

kfpt

ahhhh u can always rely on good old yeats!

the look on ppls faces wen boland wasnt there!:eek:

Victoria.

Eliot

Was so happy when I saw him, wrote pages and pages about him. Couldn't even think about Lear or comparative for about 30 mins :pac:

kieran--f

Kavanagh was the only cool poet if that makes any sense

dee o gee

Rich Absolutely hate her poetry but its fairly easy to write about, I like kavanagh and yeats but didn't like the questions that came up about them. Thank f**k I wasn't relying on boland too much although I did have more perpared on her.

Can't wait to read this forum next year, it'l say 'boland has to come up this year since she didn't last year' or maybe she isin't on the course next year!

highlydebased

Ahem.....where's the Boland option?



jk!:D

Da Shins Kelly

Billy Yeats. I'd kiss him if he was alive! What a legend.

Viva La Cozzy

I was delighted Yeats came up but the statement really only related to Lake Isle of Innisfree I had to practically draw blood from a stone and talk about Wild Swans at Coole and An Irish Airman Forsees His Death... I finished it off nicely i said:

How the speaker can be so certain of forthcoming death and not be phased by it still raises many questions.
Perhaps he did not mind losing his life here. Perhaps he did so so that he may start his life again "somewhere among the clouds"

Cormac2791

Paddy k from the block

Princess3

I did Yeats! Was hoping for Boland though but i knew Yeats well enough

!?!

i wwanted to do boland because she's always been my favourite, i know her poems off by heart, but this morning as i was going to ead over them something kept me back and instead i ended up focusing on Kavanagh for the two hours, trust instinct :D:D

theowen

So happy many avoided Rich!

The Cool One

T.S. Eliot. I had himself, Kavanagh, Yeats and Boland well prepared but Boland was my last choice, so I had the option of my top 3!

The Eliot question was the easiest for me though, blabbed on for ages about Prufrock!

Conor108

Wow loads of people did Yeats! I always found him kinda hard. Kavanagh SAVED MY F***ING DAY!!!

DancingQueen:)

I was hoping for Boland or Longely but ended up writing about Eliot : ( I tried to keep it on topic but didn't know a lot of quotes so it wasn't great. Ah well, it's over now!

JoeyBuddy

Holy ****. Yeats was the most popular.
I did Rich.

Do they mark it harder when more people do a specific question?

sheep-go-baa

JoeyBuddy wrote: »

Holy ****. Yeats was the most popular.
I did Rich.

Do they mark it harder when more people do a specific question?

I'd say it isn't a conscious thing that they think 'Oh I've seen loads of Yeats essays, have to mark them hard' but they are only human and after the first twenty or so of the same essay they might look more favourably on a change.

theowen

sheep-go-baa wrote: »

I'd say it isn't a conscious thing that they think 'Oh I've seen loads of Yeats essays, have to mark them hard' but they are only human and after the first twenty or so of the same essays they might look more favourably on a change.

Indeed. And in my school very very few did Rich, so I figure they'll look favourably on mine:)

Danger781

Kav :rolleyes:

wonderfulname

kfpt wrote: »

the look on ppls faces wen boland wasnt there!:eek:

The look on my face!! Oh i was laughing for a good 5min, I was saying all year Rich would come up and would anyone listen to me...

snooleen

For a sec I was worried about doing Yeats, even though I knew him well, cause I knew he was most people's second option, after Boland of course, but the question was very specific. I managed to use Easter 1916, Sept 1913, Sailing to Byzantium (of course), Lake Isle of Inisfree and The Wild Swans At Coole.

sheep-go-baa

theowen wrote: »

Indeed. And in my school very very few did Rich, so I figure they'll look favourably on mine:)

Rich FTW!!

*giggles*

I was so nervous opening the paper today. Would have been totally screwed if Yeats didn't come up. Was hedging my bets on Rich or Yeats coming up (even though I can't stand her).

Anyone here that was relying on Longley? A few in my class were slightly annoyed he didn't come up.

emperorofhell

studied yeats, kavanagh and rich. Couldnt have been happier

unknown13

I did kavanagh. Not a bad question but would have preferred longley but he that is the leaving cert for you

WallyGUFC

Yeats. Question only related to Innisfree and Byzantium so just used my vast and wide-ranging bulls**t skills to great effect in writing about 1913 and 1916. Happy enough.

theowen

*giggles* wrote: »

I was so nervous opening the paper today. Would have been totally screwed if Yeats didn't come up. Was hedging my bets on Rich or Yeats coming up (even though I can't stand her).

Anyone here that was relying on Longley? A few in my class were slightly annoyed he didn't come up.

Me too. I was so happy with the paper tho, had to hold back a VERY tempting pump fist.

Ruski

Paddy Kavo saved my Leaving Cert. Cheers bro. Appreciate it.

theowen

WallyGUFC wrote: »

Yeats. Question only related to Innisfree and Byzantium so just used my vast and wide-ranging bulls**t skills to great effect in writing about 1913 and 1916. Happy enough.

Untrue. Wild swans at Coole is there too (swans are timeless). I've forgotten the rest of the poems already/threw them into my metaphorical rubbish bin

*giggles*

theowen wrote: »

Me too. I was so happy with the paper tho, had to hold back a VERY tempting pump fist.

Pump fist now? I was actually so happy when I saw Yeats on the page. What's the appeal of Boland? I really can't see why people like her poetry

theowen

*giggles* wrote: »

Pump fist now? I was actually so happy when I saw Yeats on the page. What's the appeal of Boland? I really can't see why people like her poetry

Me too, but the Yeats' question was a wee bit limiting I though, initially at least. I think I'd destroy it now though:rolleyes:

orlabobs

Viva La Cozzy wrote: »

I was delighted Yeats came up but the statement really only related to Lake Isle of Innisfree I had to practically draw blood from a stone and talk about Wild Swans at Coole and An Irish Airman Forsees His Death... I finished it off nicely i said:

How the speaker can be so certain of forthcoming death and not be phased by it still raises many questions.
Perhaps he did not mind losing his life here. Perhaps he did so so that he may start his life again "somewhere among the clouds"

What about sept 1913? basically saying, this world is ****, do something about it.
and sailing to byzanthium? he didnt like the real world, went off to byzanthium?

orlabobs

snooleen wrote: »

For a sec I was worried about doing Yeats, even though I knew him well, cause I knew he was most people's second option, after Boland of course, but the question was very specific. I managed to use Easter 1916, Sept 1913, Sailing to Byzantium (of course), Lake Isle of Inisfree and The Wild Swans At Coole.

same as my friend!

dannyboymed

Eliot job! Brought my terrible drawing of a burnished throne with me to the exam hoping it'd give me good luck. It did, I wrote about Prufrock and A Game of Chess

JellyBeans92

No Boland on the paper?! I don't know about anyone else's school, but most of mine back her and she didn't show!? Bleeding hilarious

Me?. I actually hated Boland, I found her poetry to be mainly annoying so was glad to not see her on the paper. Personally I backed Rich all along (Legit) because she was the curveball on last years paper, which was cancelled because of the leak (which EVERYONE knows), I nearly put money on them pulling a double-whammy stunt like this..

I chose the Eliot question in the end, the troubled character to end all troubled characters!? Though I only covered 5 poets in class, four of which came up!?. (Boland being my fifth!?)

cailin_donn

Eliot

I wrote about Prufrock, Game of Chess and Journey of the Magi. Got over 4 pages out of it because I love Eliot so much, but then I found I was rushing for Lear still managed 4 pages tho... even if I get 30/60 thats 6%

frser32

i was very happy with rich question...i talked about aunt jennifers, uncle speaks, living in sin, diving into the wreck, very nice question