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Historykitten wrote: »Studied 4 poets and none of the four came up ... crushing
Maths tomorrow and that should be my best but english has just severely crushed me
Aw are you serious? You're not the only one who hated the poetry anyway, loads of people had no poet to write on! Did you try to write a bit on one of the poets or did you just leave it? 0 -
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We did only did Rich out of the 4 that did come up. I wrote 4 pages but barely any quotesflyswatter wrote: »That's rough luck.
Did you know anything about those that did come up?Aw are you serious? You're not the only one who hated the poetry anyway, loads of people had no poet to write on! Did you try to write a bit on one of the poets or did you just leave it?
Yeah and the thing that's killing me is it was a choice of studying Heaney or Rich and I chose Heaney
Yeah wrote 4 pages on Rich I don't think I did well though like barely any quotes. hamlets my best section and the questions were hard. I was never good at comparative and the unseen poetry I answered pretty well though 
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Historykitten wrote: »Yeah and the thing that's killing me is it was a choice of studying Heaney or Rich and I chose Heaney
Yeah wrote 4 pages on Rich I don't think I did well though like barely any quotes. hamlets my best section and the questions were hard. I was never good at comparative and the unseen poetry I answered pretty well though
You'll be grand, you'll get loads of marks for four pages on Rich, she was my favourite and I only did four and a half! And any number of quotes is good, they don't want loads. Don't be down about it, if you'd asked anyone in the country which one to study they would've said Heaney. :P 0 -
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You'll be grand, you'll get loads of marks for four pages on Rich, she was my favourite and I only did four and a half! And any number of quotes is good, they don't want loads. Don't be down about it, if you'd asked anyone in the country which one to study they would've said Heaney. :P
Hopefully thanks dear Its just horrible, I feel like i've got 50 marks gone already even though I know I'll get something for what I wrote Although if maths goes well tomorrow I won't really care 
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As a fifth-year it's pretty easy to reasssure yourself that you won't fall into the same traps all the leaving certs before you have tbh, but it happens and that's coming from someone who was compltely unaffected by the Pleaney thing (for that is what we are now calling it). Poetry might only be worth 10% but it takes so much preparation it does start to take on disproportionate importance. So yeah...
Meh I'm just saying that people who only studied Plath and/or Heaney and are complaining about the SEC and other powers that be have no one to blame only themselves. My Facebook news feed is full of this kinda thing. I mean I get it, I like all of two poets on the course and one of them is Rich, but I'm still gonna have to somehow make myself force appreciation for the likes of Derek Mahon and his poems about his various day trips to Donegal. Actually now that I think of it, possibly the two dreariest poets in the history of English, Hopkins and Wordsworth, are statistically likely to appear next year...lawd.
Yes well that disproportionate importance was kind of what I was referring to...
I do find it a bit silly, but it's there and always will be. Also lol, my first paragraph and then going on about how poetry is blown out of proportion and that there should be less focus on it blah blah blah are so contradictory. I CANNOT DEBATE. Not even sure why I'm posting this. 0 -
Historykitten wrote: »We did only did Rich out of the 4 that did come up. I wrote 4 pages but barely any quotes
Don't let this affect your maths paper tomorrow and the rest of your exams. Poetry only makes up a small part of the paper, you will get marks for whatever you wrote, and not quoting will not set you back as much as you think. I scraped a 3 page answer on some random poet when I got caught out in my LC, with no quotes and mixing up the names of the poems, and while it got me the lowest marks of the whole paper, the rest of it still managed to get an A overall. Don't stress out about 1 small part of the paper, the rest of it was probably fine 0 -
Historykitten wrote: »Hopefully thanks dear Its just horrible, I feel like i've got 50 marks gone already even though I know I'll get something for what I wrote Although if maths goes well tomorrow I won't really care
I'd say your worst case scenario for it is like 35 out of 50. :P At least it's one of lowest marked questions on the paper too, the only thing less than it is the unseen poetry.
Maths WILL go well tomorrow. Optimism!! And speaking of Maths, I'm off to go revise for it, we're not all Maths brainiacs y'know! :P 0 -
Ah yeah, Plath is less popular than Hitler among my fb friends right now as if she was personally responsible for this. I still love you SylviaMeh I'm just saying that people who only studied Plath and/or Heaney and are complaining about the SEC and other powers that be have no one to blame only themselves. My Facebook news feed is full of this kinda thing. I mean I get it, I like all of two poets on the course and one of them is Rich, but I'm still gonna have to somehow make myself force appreciation for the likes of Derek Mahon and his poems about his various day trips to Donegal. Actually now that I think of it, possibly the two dreariest poets in the history of English, Hopkins and Wordsworth, are statistically likely to appear next year...lawd.
And whut, I love Wordsworth! 0 -
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Ah yeah, Plath is less popular than Hitler among my fb friends right now as if she was personally responsible for this. I still love you Sylvia And whut, I love Wordsworth!
I've only done Plath, Rich and Mahon, I'm only going on hearsay. I remember doing a Wordsy poem in 1st Year for no apparent reason and losing the will to live and my present teacher said he was dire, but maybe there's hope for me and him yet. Not even going to entertain the possibility of Hopkins being decent though, his poems have names like 'God's Grandeur' and 'Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend'. Oh but wait, he also has a poem called 'I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day'. That sounds wonderfully depressing!
Perhaps I've been too judgemental and should actually read poems, I dunno...0 -
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I've only done Plath, Rich and Mahon, I'm only going on hearsay. I remember doing a Wordsy poem in 1st Year for no apparent reason and losing the will to live and my present teacher said he was dire, but maybe there's hope for me and him yet. Not even going to entertain the possibility of Hopkins being decent though, his poems have names like 'God's Grandeur' and 'Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend'. Oh but wait, he also has a poem called 'I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day'. That sounds wonderfully depressing!
Perhaps I've been too judgemental and should actually read poems, I dunno...
We didn't do Hopkins in school but I got a scholarship to the Hopkins Literary Festival youth programme last year, and it involved actually basically no Hopkins poetry, because according to the coordinator of the Hopkins Festival, Hopkins "wouldn't really interest or suit our age group. He's more of a college poet". And yet he's on the course.
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Pah, every year some whippersnapper's belly-aching about some poet not coming up, how about learning the night before that THE PAPER ISN'T COMING UP AND YOU HAVE TO DO IT ON A SATURDAY.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAlTOfl9F2w
although it actually helped me because I was woefully underprepared for English and bagged an A1 in the end, even though my paper 1 contained words such as "upsidedownchocolatehottub" and a joke about Jade Goody (yeah, I'm that old.)0 -
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soccymonster wrote: »Indeed. My poets (Wordsy and Hopkins..) didnt come up and I wrote aloada shiiiiiite about the "The Lake Isle Of Innisfree" for Yeats (from what I could remember in the JC) and I still came out with a B2. Laughin'.
Jaysus, by reading all the poetry coverage over the years, I'm convinced that me and my sister are the only people who got the poet we wanted. :P
(Both wanted Kavanagh, both got Kavanagh, both A1's. {jus' sayin'})
Argh, my lack of commitment is frightening. I had intended doing at least one blog post a day about E3, yet I still haven't written anything about anything other than Monday's events.
Also, everyone seems to be passing their exams. Is it I wrong that I want at least one other person to fail so I don't feel like such a retard? Probably...0 -
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wnolan1992 wrote: »Jaysus, by reading all the poetry coverage over the years, I'm convinced that me and my sister are the only people who got the poet we wanted. :P
(Both wanted Kavanagh, both got Kavanagh, both A1's. {jus' sayin'})
Argh, my lack of commitment is frightening. I had intended doing at least one blog post a day about E3, yet I still haven't written anything about anything other than Monday's events.
Also, everyone seems to be passing their exams. Is it I wrong that I want at least one other person to fail so I don't feel like such a retard? Probably...
I defo have repeats too. Sociology and Philosophy. So dont feel too bad :pac:0 -
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QueenOfLeon wrote: »My poor little doggy is having an operation today to remove a testicular tumour
That sounds ruff.
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Awww, sickenedQueenOfLeon wrote: »Muse just announced a European tour...but no Ireland I say em in 2009 on The Resistance Tour and they were class!wnolan1992 wrote: »Jaysus, by reading all the poetry coverage over the years, I'm convinced that me and my sister are the only people who got the poet we wanted. :P
(Both wanted Kavanagh, both got Kavanagh, both A1's. {jus' sayin'})
Argh, my lack of commitment is frightening. I had intended doing at least one blog post a day about E3, yet I still haven't written anything about anything other than Monday's events.
Also, everyone seems to be passing their exams. Is it I wrong that I want at least one other person to fail so I don't feel like such a retard? Probably...
I most definitely will be failing some. And even if I somehow manage to pass by some miracle, I still have to do one I skipped in August anyway.0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcJ1lrllZ7o
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