Poetry

ImRebecca

I was just wondering can you do any poem for jc English or is there a special syllabus or something. My english teacher isn't very good and im trying to pick what poems to study now. Thanks in advance

ButtonBox

I've never heard of a set list anyway.. Our teacher picks the most random things like, so I doubt it. We would've all been told.
In help with choosing, all I can tell you is to pick something that isn't too complicated. Something that has nice language, but not language that's so over the top that you're going to get confused, you know? Have at least seven to eight poems studied which all cover different areas, like one on nature, one on new beginnings, one on relationships, one on war, etc, so that you can answer any question they throw at you.
Study all of the techniques, themes and your personal responses to each, and you should be fine!
Good luck.

Bazinga_N

No you can do anything!

I did--

Sonnet 20 - William Shakespeare
Early Purges - Seamus Heaney
Mid-Term Break - Seamus Heaney
Mirror - Sylvia Plath
Going Home to Mayo, Winter 1949 - Paul Durcan
The Helicopter Pilot - Bill Janes
Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening - Robert Frost
Tich Miller - Wendy Cope !!

Hope this helps!

xfabgalx

Pretty much anything especially above suggestions.
Try to cover a wide variety of thems e.g. war, nature, imagination etc

Dulce et Decorum est - Wilfred Owen
-war
-great for poetic techniques such as onomatopoeia and similes

Daffodils - William Wordsworth
- nature and imagination
- Love this poem as it is brilliant for poetic techniques such as hyperbole (exaggeration in case you don't know)

Seamus Heaney's poems are great to know!
-e.g. Mid-term break
-imagination

But You Didn't - Merrill Glass
- war
- a view on the Vietnam war from a girlfriend of a soldier
- nice poem to get away from the typical first person action

Epic - Patrick Kavanagh
- he writes the most boring poems ever about farming and land :mad:
- war/conflict
- but he is Irish :cool:


There you go

iliketwixbars

ImRebecca wrote: »

I was just wondering can you do any poem for jc English or is there a special syllabus or something. My english teacher isn't very good and im trying to pick what poems to study now. Thanks in advance

You can study any poem you wish. Has your English teacher not covered any poems at all?

joydivision

iliketwixbars wrote: »

You can study any poem you wish. Has your English teacher not covered any poems at all?

I was kicked out of school for junior cert . Did wonderwall by oasis for my english poem . They accepted it . Was 15 years ago though. Got grinds off a resource centre in coolock they told me i could do any piece of poetry I wanted once I knew it off by heart .
Went to a different school for 5th year .
Im a struggling songwriter now haha.