my bookies odds for the poetry question!!!

i was just down at the bookies!he has it evens yeats 2/1dickinson and 5/2boland!heaney is the outsider at15/1

Repli

20 euro on yeats

SineadSligo

please god let it be dickinson, please god!!!!!!

deek

Eliot will be there. :cool: Ive discussed it with him we bantered and hes agreed to be there in exchange for keeping his thumbs (and yes I do know hes dead, but even dead people have thumbs,albeit mouldy boney ones)

Da_IRISH_ONE4U

Eh... Wheres ma Wordsworth????????

Vikings

I only prepared Bolad, Dickinson and Heaney so one of them better come up.

Dathai

Good Luck lads and ladettes with whatever comes up.

Africa

one of em should. Im doing 3 now.

deek

Da_IRISH_ONE4U wrote:

Eh... Wheres ma Wordsworth????????

Eliot killed him.....ya sorry about that ,the guys a bit outta control * turns around* "HEY!Back in your grave mister" *Slap*

trishemurphy

i'm only doing dickenson and if she doesn't come up ye will all be there laughing thinking ' ha i bet that girl in boards is crying now'

SineadSligo

ive not even LOOKED at eliot!
****...

SineadSligo

trishemurphy wrote:

i'm only doing dickenson and if she doesn't come up ye will all be there laughing thinking ' ha i bet that girl in boards is crying now'

I actualy WILL think that now, if it happens!!!
haha

I will honestly be thinking "****, that poor girl"
Xx

trishemurphy

SineadSligo wrote:

I actualy WILL think that now, if it happens!!!
haha

I will honestly be thinking "****, that poor girl"
Xx

ah don't you worry she's coming up i just hoped into doc browns plutonium powered delorean 'time-machine' and checked it

Da_IRISH_ONE4U

deek wrote:

Eliot killed him.....ya sorry about that ,the guys a bit outta control * turns around* "HEY!Back in your grave mister" *Slap*

You know... i'd actually laugh if i hadn't prepared Wordsworth! You wreck ma leaving cert deek & ill hunt you down!!!!!

deek

If Eliot doesnt come up just know that somewhere out there a girl will be silently plotting her revenge while begrudgingly starting her soon to be crappy Yeats essay. :mad:

StupidLikeAFox

I can see dickinson coming in by a short head but id still go each way on yeats and boland. I think heaney has been put out to stud whereas it will be Yeats first time out. Wordsworth is a classic stayer and cannot be ruled out.




that is horsey talk for having only studied dickinson, yeats and boland

trishemurphy

dickenson before boland she already came up

SineadSligo

Boland is one hard woman to study.

Please god be Dickinson!

trishemurphy

SineadSligo wrote:

Boland is one hard woman to study.

Please god be Dickinson!

please god

randombassist

SineadSligo wrote:

Boland is one hard woman to study.

Ah, Boland. Only she has the ability to be so pretentious as to compare the 6 million dead in WWII to a horse standing on her flower. You've got to admire that all the same I'm hoping for a bit of Eliot, just worried about being able to write it all in the amount of time we have!

JackKelly

trishemurphy wrote:

please god

please PLEASE god

chillywilly

where in the blasphomous hell is my longley????????? :eek:

StupidLikeAFox

randombassist wrote:

Ah, Boland. Only she has the ability to be so pretentious as to compare the 6 million dead in WWII to a horse standing on her flower. You've got to admire that all the same

I always thought it was the northern troubles!!

Yeats: Pretension personified!

rosa

chillywilly wrote:

where in the blasphomous hell is my longley????????? :eek:

Exactly what I'm thinking! But i think he might have come up before.

Camogie Playa

he came up in 2003 and 2002 i think!i hope either he, dickinson or yeats come up--they have to come up, thats all ive done.and i dont know anyother poems well enough to wing it!come on michael, emily and william!!

pinkdaisy

maybe im being really stupid and not thinkin bout this properly, but say i was the person who set the english exam and knew exactly what poet was coming up. cud i walk into my local bookies and place a bet and win lotsa cash?

Riamfada

Boland the mega cow! Marries has kids and lives a decent life yet she moans and moans and moans. I refuse to study here one way or the other her and her horse! Dickenson is the general concensus? Paddy Power cant be wrong. If she dosn't come up then there is going to be alot of wrist slashing by the looks of things.

rosa

Camogie Playa wrote:

he came up in 2003 and 2002 i think!i hope either he, dickinson or yeats come up--they have to come up, thats all ive done.and i dont know anyother poems well enough to wing it!come on michael, emily and william!!

I'm with you on that one! They're my favourites so I find them so much easier to write about, I hate writing with feigned enthusiasm for poets I don't really like.

Wordsworth, I'm referring to you.

chillywilly

Camogie Playa wrote:

he came up in 2003 and 2002 i think!i hope either he, dickinson or yeats come up--they have to come up, thats all ive done.and i dont know anyother poems well enough to wing it!come on michael, emily and william!!

the last time he came up was 2002, same as boland so 1 of them has to come up!!!!! :eek: :rolleyes:

JackKelly

hit the showers wordsworth.

chillywilly

TimAy wrote:

hit the showers wordsworth.

you talking to me?

the "he" i was referring to was longley

but if you were not talking to me i totally agree with you on wordsworth, and while he is in the shower im gonna whip his ass with a lil towel......"quit squeelin' wordy!!" is what i will say!!!!!! :cool:

oh ye

upmeath

The War Horse is more about The Troubles than World War II I reckon...
"Only a leaf of out laurel hedge is torn" - Only a corner of Ireland is affected
"He stumbles down our short street" - Ireland is the "short street", the Troubles looming over us all but selecting a minority as victims "like a rumour of war"

Breezer

Ah, Boland. Only she has the ability to be so pretentious as to compare the 6 million dead in WWII to a horse standing on her flower.

I always thought that was about Northern Ireland... Oh well, not doing her anyway. Yeats, Dickinson, Wordsworth or Kavanagh, any of them'll do! I'm having visions of the other 4 rearing their ugly heads though... :eek:

Fortinbras'

upmeath wrote:

The War Horse is more about The Troubles than World War II I reckon...
"Only a leaf of out laurel hedge is torn" - Only a corner of Ireland is affected
"He stumbles down our short street" - Ireland is the "short street", the Troubles looming over us all but selecting a minority as victims "like a rumour of war"

Ilicit braid - ribbon men

A cause ruined before a world betrayed - the cause is nationalism

the world feels betrayed due to the disgusting nature of violence




Our unformed fear of fierce commitment gone - Our Resistance to War is now gone

We use the subterfuge of (curtains/windows??) to hide from war behind the anonmyinity of war

BraveheartGal

Da_IRISH_ONE4U
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" Eh... Wheres ma Wordsworth???????? "



back in his box where he belongs


dickinson all the way
(but if she comes up i bet itll be a b of a question, cos everyones predictin her)
followed closely by good auld kav

trishemurphy

noo it'll be write your personal response to dickinson and tomorrow night i'll log on and ye'll be like wow how did you know that and ye'll bow to my greatness
and if she doesn't i'll never log on again and i'll fail my english exam
come on dickenson you can do it girl

BraveheartGal

what will you write as personal response?
how you admired her uniqueness, her courage in not shirking from abstract subject matter and of course, her infamous "idiosyncratic genius"


you?

Fortinbras'

BraveheartGal wrote:

what will you write as personal response?
how you admired her uniqueness, her courage in not shirking from abstract subject matter and of course, her infamous "idiosyncratic genius"


you?

ALl of them of course

Fortinbras'

Are any on-line bookies doing bets?

trishemurphy

simply how much she amazes me


oh and 3 poems is that enough

Fortinbras'

trishemurphy wrote:

simply how much she amazes me


oh and 3 poems is that enough

Go in detail on 3 but mention other 2/3 very briefly

trishemurphy

do i have to she says in a horrible whiny tone

Fortinbras'

trishemurphy wrote:

do i have to she says in a horrible whiny tone

Just say at end of a paragraph, This theme/issue is also evident in her other poem ....

she further explores this in .....

etc.


SHe also finishes this poem.. with a dash similarily

Deadlocked

Come on Yeats, Heaney or Longley!!!!

Stabs Boland. I hate her poetry!

Fortinbras'

I dont think heaney is coming up

bounty_hunter

C'mon Dickinson and/or Yeats!

My bookie got yeats dead on last year.