Were you happy with English Paper 2?

Geo10

Did the poet you studied come up, how was the single text and comparitive? What questions did you do?

dambarude

Considering they won't be out for a few hours, you're in in good time with this thread:P

Dr. Ring

For a second there I actually thought someone had left after 40 mins...EPIC FAIL

Big Pussy Bonpensiero

What came up?

Dr. Ring

Boland anyway :P Thats all I know.

richieffff

Everything I studied came up
Boland, Yeats, Frost and Dickenson came up in poetry.
Theme or Issue and Cultural Contex in the comparative.

Big Pussy Bonpensiero

richieffff wrote: »

Everything I studied came up
Boland, Yeats, Frost and Dickenson came up in poetry.
Theme or Issue and Cultural Contex in the comparative.

Congrats man! What came up regarding Shakespeare?

richieffff

I did A dolls house but for hamlet it was "Revenge and Justice are finely balanced theme in the play" Discuss

or

"claudious can be seen as both heartless villian and a character with some redeaming qualitys in the play"
Discuss both aspects.

Big Pussy Bonpensiero

richieffff wrote: »

I did A dolls house but for hamlet it was "Revenge and Justice are finely balanced theme in the play" Discuss

or

"claudious can be seen as both heartless villian and a character with some redeaming qualitys in the play"
Discuss both aspects.

Thanks a lot mate, appreciated! And congrats again!

innovation.

Can I ask how you're out so early?

implausible

richieffff wrote: »

Everything I studied came up
Boland, Yeats, Frost and Dickenson came up in poetry.
Theme or Issue and Cultural Contex in the comparative.

Woohoo! My students did Boland, Frost, Dickinson, WBY and Kavanagh, Theme and CC:):):):):D

richieffff

It was a combination of being a fast writer and having my section one and three done really quick

Big Pussy Bonpensiero

Just realised two women came up, that must have pleased a lot of people. I know a lot of people that were relying on Hamlet himself coming up tho:(.

Vodkat

I am on top of the world at the moment, my fingers are in pain but im just too happy to care. LOVED the unseen poem!!!

And here it is incase anyones wondering

''Poetry'' Leanne O sullivan

I can never find a pen when you come, when you
snap me up on your lizard tongue and
wrap yourself around me as if I were a spool.
Vague as metaphors you tease
trawling your shadows as feathering clouds do,
shedding infant vowels in your vaporous image.
You will never be perfected, and while you are
half born I will never sleep.

In pickling ink I preserve all your fruits;
Perhaps you are a prophecy, a
mouthing of the boundless, or some
God or other Minerva festering
like secrets in empty lines.
Years gone now, labouring to drain the
reddest blood from your throat,
and I am none the wiser.

UrbanSea

Aw I was delighted when I saw the paper

UrbanSea

Can't say I ''LOVED'' the unseen poem. What was so great about it?
Was delighted with the two papers.

floutingmaxims

Paper 2.. WHAT A BEAUTY!!!

Out of curiosity, what did everybody else say for the main emotion in the unseen poem..?

I said frustration

UrbanSea

Same here Cawcheen.

Vodkat

UrbanSea wrote: »

Can't say I ''LOVED'' the unseen poem. What was so great about it?
Was delighted with the two papers.

I loved it because I found it easy to interpret.
I did the personal response and included authors style, poetic techniques such as onomatopoeia, rhyme, personification, similes etc.

Luno

I was hoping Frost wouldn't be up so he'd be on the paper in 2012!

unknowntoown

have to honestly say BEST TEST EVER...for me anyway
i'm what youd call a slacker
i didnt study at all for english until last night and for 3 hours dis morning
i took a major risk haha
for poetry i studied 1 poet out of 8 guess what he came up couldnt of been more delighted was Robert Frost
for Hamlet i did theme and issue , basicly question was revenge and justice are considered balanced in the play Hamlet , discuss this with reference to the play , best part was i only studied 3 quotes and all 3 were on the revenge theme so it fitted in nicely
the comparative was the hardest out of them all ,but still i was able to choose my own theme which worked out nicely
oh and the unseen poem made me smile

UrbanSea

You only used three quotes?

flyaway.

How lucky are we?! That. Was. Lovely.

Vodkat

The paper is up on the examinations website already, that was quick!!

unknowntoown

UrbanSea wrote: »

You only used three quotes?

used 3 for revenge for theme
i know hamlet so much i could read it backwards
so i got extra quotes for other parts of the story
but the 3 i used defind the revenge theme

Smartly Dressed

Absolute dream questions on Frost and Dickinson.

Hope93

Absolutely brilliant paper! There is a god!

I had banked on Boland this morning though and was studying like hell for her but the question was particularly great so I fell back on Dickinson, great question although I didn't use a lot of quotes and waffled a LOT but I still reckon I passed the question.

Comparative was really nice, I Didn't really relate to the CC question but what I wrote was some epic stuff so I'm sure I should get a fair bit of marks as the stuff I wrote related to the question I just didn't relate it back myself :P

Hamlet was a dream of a question. Only wrote 3 pages, that's all I needed. Revenge theme and Justice? Brilliant. Disappointed though as I left out 2 key quotes that would of lifted my grade so much, 'Scourge and Minister' and 'There's a certain providence in a fall of a sparrow'. Didn't even think on them when In the exam, of course they hit me like a brick wall when I walked out.

Absolute Dream of a paper. If I can pull a C2 out of that paper I think my Paper 1 will pull be to a B2

TheFullDuck

Deeeeeeeelighted,

a very nice paper

Claudius
Reinforce view on theme/issue
Frost
Unseen B

AG2R

I liked it tbh. The Comparative pissed me right off though. Like really "does this make you feel uncomfortable"

LilMissCiara

Hamlet - Claudius question. Gave a good enough answer, almost 4 pages. Happy enough.
Comparative - Hated it. Tried my best but only got 4 pages.
Frost - What a lovely question! Absolutely loved it! Delighted!
Unseen - Good I suppose.

BrendaN_f

Cawcheen wrote: »

Paper 2.. WHAT A BEAUTY!!!

Out of curiosity, what did everybody else say for the main emotion in the unseen poem..?

I said frustration

i picked frustration as well. the word didnt pop into my head right away, i crossed out "confusion" and "helplessness" before it came to me haha

Smartly Dressed wrote: »

Absolute dream questions on Frost and Dickinson.

yep. couldnt have asked for a nicer paper

LilMissCiara

BrendaN_f wrote: »

i picked frustration as well haha.

Me too!

dillo2k10

It went great for me.

I only studied the 3 female poets in detail.
I done Dickenson in the Exam.

The Hamlet question was okay but I couldnt remember any quotes eek. I just went blank and the Comparative was good.

The unseen poem was very easy. I chose love for the emotion.

I wrote a total of 17 pages.

I think it went much better than I had planned.

Fireball07

It was good enough...certainly not hard. Some of the questions were worded slightly weirdly imo but apart from that it was grand.

I also picked frustration for the emotion but I only got just over a page done for that, would have liked to do more.

Fairly happy it must be said.

polka dot

I didn't think it was a nice paper at all!

2 out of the 4 poets I studied came up. (No Hopkins or Wordsworth :mad: I'd studied them better!)
Unseen poem I said despair.
Hamlet questions were dreadful, did Claudius because I looked over that once this morning. Never did a theme question before.
Cultural context was brilliant though! So happy with that one.

rockycoolness22

Everything I predicted for myself came up
Claudius, Theme and Boland
but I found the questions on each pretty tough!
Happy enough though but dont want to jinx it!
Liked the unseen!
What did y'all think of it?

hunii07

I thought paper 2 was a really nice paper....did the Claudius question...cultural context Q2(a)+(b) , unseen Q1(a)+(b) and Dickinson.... didn't really like the comparative but over a nice paper though:D:D

UL

I left out the biggest shout of joy when I saw Bolands name in that lovely bold print! So delighted, as for the other questions I think I did ok. Unseen Poetry was a BEAUT!

C__

What did ye say for Frost's poetry? i talked about the human and artistic concerns in the poem.

floutingmaxims

dillo2k10 wrote: »

I wrote a total of 17 pages.

You're mad! I wrote 3.5 for Hamlet, 4.5 for the comparative, 3 for poetry and 1 fr unseen poetry. So if my calculations are correct,thats 12! 17 is madness! Your hand must be fallin off ya

BrendaN_f

dillo2k10 wrote: »

I wrote a total of 17 pages.

here's a fun fact: your page total for paper 2 is the same as my page total for both exams!

Eoin MurMur

Cawcheen wrote: »

Paper 2.. WHAT A BEAUTY!!!

Out of curiosity, what did everybody else say for the main emotion in the unseen poem..?

I said frustration

Ditto

What'd you say was the line that impressed you most?

Overall that was a gorgeous paper.
Theme of revenge was great for hamlet and then linking that with how the all achieved justice in their acts of revenge was pretty nifty (I hope!)

Comparitive was tricky enough for coming up with a "lesson" to go along with the theme but after 5 and a half pages I think I got my point across :cool:

Poetry was absolutly beautiful, Emily Dickinson question was really great. Just got to say that her poems gave us an interesting insight into the mind of someone with depression Couldn't have asked for a nicer question!

nommm

Beautiful. I had already done the questions on Frost and Clauidius. The Comparative question was lovely. Waffled a bit in the Unseen poetry because I had so little time left but overall good paper. Filled the whole booklet.

C__MC

Did yeats what did people say for the hamlet question on claudius.

Vodkat

C__ wrote: »

What did ye say for Frost's poetry? i talked about the human and artistic concerns in the poem.

Spoke about how the poems are preoccupied with nature but they mainly concern darker issues such as despair, death and the lack of a caring god. But different poems have different layers. The poems I included were ''Mending Wall'' ''The tuft of flowers'' ''out,out'' and ''Design''

C__

C__ wrote: »

What did ye say for Frost's poetry? i talked about the human and artistic concerns in the poem.

Just talked about the different meanings and interpretations of his poems.


Did Frost - lovely question
Unseen poem - meh, used frustration as the emotion.
Comparative: CC, was a wierd question but I think it went well.
Hamlet: Revenge/Justice, did.not.like.

dillo2k10

Cawcheen wrote: »

You're mad! I wrote 3.5 for Hamlet, 4.5 for the comparative, 3 for poetry and 1 fr unseen poetry. So if my calculations are correct,thats 12! 17 is madness! Your hand must be fallin off ya

It is, my hand is killing me. Tumb feels like its going to fall off.

Eoin MurMur wrote: »

What'd you say was the line that impressed you most?

I used the first two lines.

C__

Vodkat wrote: »

Spoke about how the poems are preoccupied with nature but they mainly concern darker issues such as despair, death and the lack of a caring god. But different poems have different layers. The poems I included were ''Mending Wall'' ''The tuft of flowers'' ''out,out'' and ''Design''

I wrote bout the human concerns like evil forces and stuff and artistic concerns like poetic process and stuff looking back kinda seems wrong to me

dannyirishman

Revenge and Justice was brilliant. Just take character by character.

Comparative went well, 5 solid pages of C's.

For poetry 4 poets I studies came up! Despite Frost being my favourite, I did the Dickinson question which was quite arkward but from doing so many essays and knowing the poems it went reasonably well.

After getting about a C minimum on paper 1 hopefully paper 2 brings me upto a B!

what.to.do

I really hope they don't mark it awfully now since it was so nice!

njd2010

Yup, very happy.