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Two Poetry Questions

  • 05-06-2012 4:15pm
    #1
    OwlYouNeed
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 92 ✭✭


    Hi. I'm a little bit worried about if I've covered enough poems for the poetry section in English. I've done:
    Dulce et decorum est
    Base Details
    Wild Swans at Coole
    Lake Isle of Inisfree
    On Raglan Road
    Mid-term break.

    and number 2, what other techniques are used in On Raglan road, other than imagery?

    Thanks in advance.


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  • #2
    decisions
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭decisions


    No 2 by the same poet?

    Other than that you should be fine. In fact you dont need it really but the poet questions tend to be rather easy.
    Nevermind, you should be grand.


  • #3
    Bazinga_N
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,232 ✭✭✭Bazinga_N


    OwlYouNeed wrote: »
    Hi. I'm a little bit worried about if I've covered enough poems for the poetry section in English. I've done:
    Dulce et decorum est
    Base Details
    Wild Swans at Coole
    Lake Isle of Inisfree
    On Raglan Road
    Mid-term break.

    and number 2, what other techniques are used in On Raglan road, other than imagery?

    Thanks in advance.
    Haven't done On Renglen Road, but to answer your first question. Yea, I reckon you've done plenty as long as you know them well and can answer a question on them.


  • #4
    OwlYouNeed
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 92 ✭✭OwlYouNeed


    decisions wrote: »
    No 2 by the same poet?

    Wild Swans at Coole and Lake Isle of Inisfree are both by W.B. Yeats. :)


  • #5
    OwlYouNeed
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 92 ✭✭OwlYouNeed


    Bazinga_N wrote: »
    Haven't done On Renglen Road, but to answer your first question. Yea, I reckon you've done plenty as long as you know them well and can answer a question on them.

    Thanks :)


  • #6
    decisions
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭decisions


    OwlYouNeed wrote: »
    Wild Swans at Coole and Lake Isle of Inisfree are both by W.B. Yeats. :)

    Copped just before you posted :o.


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  • #7
    OwlYouNeed
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 92 ✭✭OwlYouNeed


    decisions wrote: »
    Copped just before you posted :o.

    Thanks anyway. :D You had me worried there for a bit. :p


  • #8
    ohsurelook
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 182 ✭✭ohsurelook


    How many poems do you NEED?

    I have Kavanagh's (Ininskeen Road,Raglan Road,Epic - all different themes)
    The Daffodils
    The Road Not Taken
    Conquerers

    Enough? If not,suggest one I could learn for tonight?


  • #9
    paddyzk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,286 ✭✭✭paddyzk


    ohsurelook wrote: »
    How many poems do you NEED?

    I have Kavanagh's (Ininskeen Road,Raglan Road,Epic - all different themes)
    The Daffodils
    The Road Not Taken
    Conquerers

    Enough? If not,suggest one I could learn for tonight?

    Nah,you're sound with those.


  • #10
    Bazinga_N
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,232 ✭✭✭Bazinga_N


    ohsurelook wrote: »
    How many poems do you NEED?

    I have Kavanagh's (Ininskeen Road,Raglan Road,Epic - all different themes)
    The Daffodils
    The Road Not Taken
    Conquerers

    Enough? If not,suggest one I could learn for tonight?
    Seems grand too me. Are any of thoose a love poem though? If not you might want to have a go at a love poem tonight.


  • #11
    ohsurelook
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 182 ✭✭ohsurelook


    Nah,you're sound with those.

    *MWAH* chanks bbz


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  • #12
    ohsurelook
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 182 ✭✭ohsurelook


    Seems grand too me. Are any of thoose a love poem though? If not you might want to have a go at a love poem tonight.

    Ya Raglan Road is but it's an "unconventional" one


  • #13
    The One Who Knocks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,301 ✭✭✭The One Who Knocks


    Anyone know if it'd be possible to use love for Mid-Term Break?

    Okay bare with me, I know it's a death poem, BUT

    Could you talk about how the family stick together, even when tragedy has struck?
    "as my mother held my hand in hers and coughed out angry tearless sighs."

    Could you talk about how much the family loved Heaney's brother?

    Maybe about how the father loved him so much, and how he was so shook up after he died?

    "In the porch I met my father crying--
    He had always taken funerals in his stride"--

    Is it possible? what do yas think?


  • #14
    Bazinga_N
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,232 ✭✭✭Bazinga_N


    Jamez735 wrote: »
    Anyone know if it'd be possible to use love for Mid-Term Break?

    Okay bare with me, I know it's a death poem, BUT

    Could you talk about how the family stick together, even when tragedy has struck?
    "as my mother held my hand in hers and coughed out angry tearless sighs."

    Could you talk about how much the family loved Heaney's brother?

    Maybe about how the father loved him so much, and how he was so shook up after he died?

    "In the porch I met my father crying--
    He had always taken funerals in his stride"--

    Is it possible? what do yas think?
    It's a bit risky. I suppose you could go for it.


  • #15
    The One Who Knocks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,301 ✭✭✭The One Who Knocks


    Bazinga_N wrote: »
    It's a bit risky. I suppose you could go for it.


    Okay 50 quid to anyone who can write a poem about love in the first stanza, nature in the second and death in the third.

    let me see....

    roses are red,.... like red autumn leaves, ....that eventually die.

    Yup, I'm screwed


  • #16
    TheZestyLemon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 99 ✭✭TheZestyLemon


    I'm only doing Base Details and Midterm Break. I've them fairly well covered, I know all the techniques and usually the second option on studied poetry is very general while option one
    normally deals with a theme.


  • #17
    The One Who Knocks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,301 ✭✭✭The One Who Knocks


    TheZestyLemon wrote: »
    I'm only doing Base Details and Midterm Break. I've them fairly well covered, I know all the techniques and usually the second option on studied poetry is very general while option one
    normally deals with a theme.

    Yah I'd say we'll be grand with war & death, I'd be surprised if 2 questions came up that we couldn't answer.

    Although if Love & Compare 3 poems by an author comes up...I'm Fecked!


  • #18
    lynchy101
    Closed Accounts Posts: 229 ✭✭lynchy101


    I am making up my poems on the day.

    Be grand.


  • #19
    The One Who Knocks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,301 ✭✭✭The One Who Knocks


    lynchy101 wrote: »
    I am making up my poems on the day.

    Be grand.


    That would be great, but are ya allowed?


  • #20
    Bazinga_N
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,232 ✭✭✭Bazinga_N


    lynchy101 wrote: »
    I am making up my poems on the day.

    Be grand.
    Sure Why Not? :)


  • #21
    The One Who Knocks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,301 ✭✭✭The One Who Knocks


    Bazinga_N wrote: »
    Sure Why Not? :)

    Lol seriously?


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  • #22
    lynchy101
    Closed Accounts Posts: 229 ✭✭lynchy101


    Jamez735 wrote: »
    Lol seriously?

    How would the corrector know you made them up?


  • #23
    The One Who Knocks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,301 ✭✭✭The One Who Knocks


    lynchy101 wrote: »
    How would the corrector know you made them up?

    Don't they have to be well known or something?

    Lol that would be AMAZING if I could make my own!
    I like nature
    Nature is cool
    there's lots of trees
    and leaves

    But sometimes these
    little trees
    die.
    like a pie
    in an 2000 degrees oven

    Or like Romeo and Juliet
    They loved each other
    but their families were at war
    and Romeo had a friend
    His name was Mercutio
    He was like a brother
    From another mother

    He died also.

    Nature, Love, Friendship, Death, War.....SORTED! :P


  • #24
    The House Of Wolves
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 184 ✭✭The House Of Wolves


    Oh jesus. Ye have all got me frightened out of my wits now - the ONLY poem I've studied is Dulce et Decorum est! (and I know that there is Disabled.)

    That's it! I have no other notes on anything else because my teacher said it'll be enough.

    Will it!?


  • #25
    The One Who Knocks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,301 ✭✭✭The One Who Knocks


    The House Of Wolves wrote: »
    Oh jesus. Ye have all got me frightened out of my wits now - the ONLY poem I've studied is Dulce et Decorum est! (and I know that there is Disabled.)

    That's it! I have no other notes on anything else because my teacher said it'll be enough.

    Will it!?

    relax, you'll be grand, I've went through every exam paper and dulce will fit in, just make sure you know it really really well.....one question is always open ended, although it may not be ideal, ;)


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