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pre 98 junior cert English

  • 26-03-2011 5:47am
    #1
    Shanannigan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,227 ✭✭✭Shanannigan


    Anyone remember the text book of that time and a poem entitled 'basking shark achill island?'


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  • #2
    Sharpshooter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,859 ✭✭✭✭Sharpshooter


    Moved from After Hours.

    You might get your answer here, OP.


  • #3
    Colm!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,014 ✭✭✭Colm!


    You're a LOT less likely to find your answer here, considering that this forum is used more by current JC students as opposed to pre-98 LC english. Nonetheless, I'll ask an English teahcer I know about this.


  • #4
    P H A 7V T O M
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,006 ✭✭✭P H A 7V T O M


    This is about from the time when dinosaurs were still knocking about, correct?


  • #5
    Alexa Damaged Bathroom
    Posts: 0 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Alexa Damaged Bathroom


    I was 98/99, but I don't remember that poem sorry :)


  • #6
    Ellajee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8 ✭Ellajee


    Was the textbook called Reflections?
    I was also trying to remember the words to this poem recently - and who wrote it. All I remember is that it was about a boy who encounters a basking shark while swimming and is terrified (but of course totally unharmed). It's 16 years since I learnt it though so the actual words escape me!


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  • #7
    implausible
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,937 ✭✭✭implausible


    BASKING SHARK
    To stub an oar on a rock where none should be
    To enjoy it rise with a slounge out of the the deep
    is a thing that happen once, too often, to me.

    But not too normally, though enough,I count as gain
    That i once met, on a deep-sea tin-tacked with precipitation
    that roomsized monster with a matchbox brain.

    He displaced more than marine, he shoggled me
    Centuries back, this decadent townee
    Shook on a branch of his home tree.

    Swish up the dirt and, when it settles
    a spring is all the clearer. I saw me contained by one fling,
    emerging from the slime of everything.

    So who's the monster? The thought made me grow pale
    For twenty second as, sail after tour,
    the tall fin slid away, and next the tail.


    BASKING SHARK
    By NORMAN MACCAIG

    Is this it?


  • #8
    Ellajee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8 ✭Ellajee


    Not the same one no, although strange that there's another similar poem. The one from the junior cert was called 'Basking Shark, Achill Island' and the language was very simple. I think there was a line about the sound of the water or his pulse in his ears as he looked at the shark under the water - but can't re-call much more than that.


  • #9
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,316 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    Ellajee wrote: »
    Not the same one no, although strange that there's another similar poem. The one from the junior cert was called 'Basking Shark, Achill Island' and the language was very simple. I think there was a line about the sound of the water or his pulse in his ears as he looked at the shark under the water - but can't re-call much more than that.

    Might it have been a translation?


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