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How many Poets are you studying?

  • 03-06-2005 10:36pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,252 ✭✭✭


    Just a a matter of interest. Im studying 4, i hope that im not gonna have 1.5% bad luck and none of them come up!

    Studying:
    Boland
    Dickinson
    Longley (favorite poet)
    Wordsworth

    How many poets you studying? 34 votes

    1
    0% 0 votes
    2
    8% 3 votes
    3
    26% 9 votes
    4
    20% 7 votes
    5
    11% 4 votes
    6
    29% 10 votes
    7
    2% 1 vote
    IM SUPERMAN! ALL 8!
    0% 0 votes


Comments

  • Closed Accounts Posts: 311 ✭✭<Jonny>


    Longley's the only one we didn't study in class.

    For the exam i'll be learning quotes from Kavanagh, Boland, Dickinson, Heaney and yeats. I doubt one of those won't come up.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 605 ✭✭✭exiztone


    3

    Yeats
    Boland
    Dickinson

    I've heard a female poet HAS to come up.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 451 ✭✭Zukustious


    exiztone wrote:
    I've heard a female poet HAS to come up.

    That's not true you just generally get at least one. Could shock us this year! I hope so I'm not doing any female poets. I'm doing 5: Heaney, Longley, Yeats, Wordsworth, Eliot.


  • Posts: 8,717 [Deleted User]


    exiztone wrote:
    3

    Yeats
    Boland
    Dickinson

    I've heard a female poet HAS to come up.


    I'm doing the same three. I couldn't bother wasting my time on a subject like English.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,496 ✭✭✭*Angel*


    I'm doing 4, I was planning on doing 5 but sh!t happens...

    Kavanagh
    Yeats
    Dickinson
    Heaney

    Seen as you guys seem to like Longley do you wanna give me a few pointers? Please?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,252 ✭✭✭Africa


    Have you all your quotes learned off?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 451 ✭✭Zukustious


    He likes his da I'll tell you that. Or maybe he doesn't. He writes about him anyway. Maybe I should crack open a book...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 311 ✭✭<Jonny>


    Africa wrote:
    Have you all your quotes learned off?


    That's what the frantic night before the exam is for.


  • Posts: 8,717 [Deleted User]


    <Jonny> wrote:
    That's what the frantic night before the exam is for.

    OMG! I hope you're kidding? Learning quotes from 4/5 different poets, and your single text, and your comparative, in one day? :eek:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 311 ✭✭<Jonny>


    Yeah, i'm kidding. That doesn't mean I won't still be franticly learning things the night before though.


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  • Posts: 8,717 [Deleted User]


    Of course not.

    You scared me there for a second though!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,252 ✭✭✭Africa


    well....it is possible.

    Ive done out ym SSt quotes, still have the rest to do!!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 116 ✭✭hum


    im doing 5

    kavanagh
    boland
    heaney
    longley
    dickinson

    although boland is probly my worst :o
    as for quotes at the moment my walls are nothing but a mass of highlighted sheets of quotes!! it helps to, its always there in front of you, you dont have to go searching kinda thing

    as for hamlet i counted up my quotes to learn.. grand total= 29 so i know about 10 of them, so if i learn 5 a day till the exam it should be ok :confused:

    does anyone else think that once english and irish are over it will be grand..??


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 728 ✭✭✭randomfella


    6 or more and u are a loser. Or u have too much time on your hands or both. if u study 7 or more the option should be im a sad bastard. Seriously though u know at least one of the poets out 5 will be on it why BOTHER study a sixth?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 116 ✭✭hum


    huh? do you mean me or in general!??
    i never said i was doing six!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 728 ✭✭✭randomfella


    in general of course. Sorry if anybody took offense to last post by me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,496 ✭✭✭*Angel*


    you're doing 5 so obviously he means in general


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 116 ✭✭hum


    oh ok! no its cool, i agree, i dont know how i would even have time to do anymore than 5 i mean its hard enough as it is!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,266 ✭✭✭Rnger


    Zukustious wrote:
    That's not true you just generally get at least one. Could shock us this year! I hope so I'm not doing any female poets. I'm doing 5: Heaney, Longley, Yeats, Wordsworth, Eliot.


    5?! your a god damn sicko. im doing 3 maybe even 2 when i found out its worth only 50 marks


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,053 ✭✭✭Cannibal Ox


    Dickinson
    Heaney
    Boland
    Wordsworth
    I was going to do Yeats as well, but I don't see the point anymore.

    Is Dickinson on the course for next year? Cause afaik Boland's only up this year, so if Dickinson is up next year as well you'd have to put your bets on Boland being the female poet.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 116 ✭✭hum


    2006= donne
    hardy
    hopkins
    yeats
    eliot
    bishop
    plath
    longley


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 39 camroc


    Okay, could someone answer this once and for all, does a female poet have to come up? If not I am screwed!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,252 ✭✭✭Africa


    It doesnt HAVE to but you can bet there will be one. I think lots of people are.

    JIC, study another one though.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 362 ✭✭the smiley one


    I'm doing: Dickinson Yeats Eliot Longley Heaney

    Rnger wrote:
    5?! your a god damn sicko. im doing 3 maybe even 2 when i found out its worth only 50 marks

    50 marks is 12.5% of your whole exam......quite a bit I'd say, and considering this is probably your 2/3/4th time revising the poets it's not so hard going...

    :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 440 ✭✭Shyster


    boland
    heaney
    wordsworth
    dickinson

    how many poems should you include in your answer, is three too little?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,252 ✭✭✭Africa


    three or four. Usually going over is taking up time.

    But apply to the topic at hand, dont go poem by poem unless the question reflects this approach.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 440 ✭✭Shyster


    really?, thats how I was doing it
    so its better to deal with say, a technique that the poet uses and discuss it in all the relevant poems...?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,946 ✭✭✭D-Generate


    Doing 5 poets and I know 6 poems from each poet

    Longley
    Dickinson
    Yeats
    Heaney
    Kavanagh

    I could have learned Boland aswell so I would have an option of doing 2 poets for the exam but I hate her stuff so there was no gain to having her as an extra option.

    Generally in an answer I will talk about 4 poems, any more and it means you musn't be delving in to teh poems to a great enough detail, any less and it shows you don't really know that much work by them.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 359 ✭✭vote4pedro


    I'm learning 5 essays, a personal response on
    Boland
    Dickinson
    Yeats
    Worsworth
    Kavanagh

    I'll be covered that way without having to learn off general spoofy stuff about all poets.Instead I have 5 essays, each discussing around 4 poems and then a few paragraphs on general points about the poet (Memorable quality, personal quality). Even if a straight "Personal Response" question doesn't come up, it's easily adaptable as they can't ask anything specific in the question. It will just be "Pick your favourite poems.." or "Write a speech to introduce the poetry of..." which is just the same as a personal response with a little tweeking. If anyone hasn't started studying poets properly yet, Id def recommend just writing and learning off a personal response so.


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  • Hosted Moderators Posts: 11,362 ✭✭✭✭Scarinae


    exiztone wrote:
    I've heard a female poet HAS to come up.
    Ah yes, but what if the female poet question is really ****ty and hard to answer on?
    I'm doing 5 - Dickinson, Yeats, Kavanagh, Longley and Heaney, although the three I know the best are probably Dickinson, Heaney and Longley. I could manage a question on the other two but it wouldn't be my ideal. I'm hoping for some manner of an A in English anyway, I really enjoy studying it, I find it way harder to study Irish simply because I don't enjoy it much


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,028 ✭✭✭oq4v3ht0u76kf2


    Doing Boland, Yeats, Dickinson and Longley... 2 hours for each of them on Tuesday and that's all they're getting! Comparative (well, only V&V and Theme... genre can go to hell) and Hamlet get 3 hours each on Monday and that is my English exam finished. :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 396 ✭✭Finch*


    im just doing yeats and dickinson in depth, then if worst comes to worst i will wing it on any of the other posets.

    yeats and dickinson havent come up in a long time, and this is the last year dickinson is on the course so.....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 423 ✭✭Digi_Tilmitt


    Finch* wrote:
    im just doing yeats and dickinson in depth, then if worst comes to worst i will wing it on any of the other posets.

    yeats and dickinson havent come up in a long time, and this is the last year dickinson is on the course so.....

    I'm doing the exact same. If they don't come up well at least i can think "Finch is screwed too so it's not so bad!".


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 151 ✭✭Camogie Playa


    im only doing yeats, dickinson and longley!so also if im in the same mess as above^^^^.....sorry finch and digi tilmitt im going to think of ye too!!


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