==POETS Wich are more likely to come up poll

MrMarti · 11-05-2008 10:43pm #1

John Montague
Robert Frost
Sylvia Plath
Adrienne Rich
Derek Mahon
Philip Larkin
Eavan Boland
John Donne

Wich poets are most likely to come up please vote

life_is_music · 11-05-2008 11:13pm

Derek Mahon

kinda stupid poll.....

everyone is gonna vote for the poets they want to come up!

Peleus · 11-05-2008 11:43pm

John Montague

The four most likely, going on probability alone are:

Philip Larkin
Adrienne Rich
Derek Mahon
Eavan Boland

The rest have been on before recently. That's not to say that these will be the ones on the paper. But if you study all them (in that order), you will most likely get a question on one of them on the day. If you look at the papers, its VERY unlikely that the other four will come up together, seeing as most of the other four have been on either last year or the year before.

We'll probably get three out of the four above and one out of the other four.

Bowden · 12-05-2008 12:41pm

John Donne

If Boland comes up (Last year on the course) means I will get an A as i know her poetry inside out so lets hope and pray!!!

MrMarti · 12-05-2008 9:13pm

Adrienne Rich

umm keep voting so we can get a more accurate result, and no people wont vote who they like to come up, frost for example got very few votes and we all know that he's among the easyest poets to study !!

:D:D:D:D

marus aureilous · 12-05-2008 11:02pm

John Montague

personally i think it will be
1. donne(was up in 06 but is last year on course)
2. boland(think 05 and last yrear too)
3. rich( 1st year on course)
4 mahon( hasnt been up since 04)
could be larkin hasnt been seen since 01

normally its one new,one old,one man, one woman
hopefully donne and rich are their 2 easiest in my opinion and do hope for larkin but probably wont be their

1huge1 · 13-05-2008 7:37pm

Derek Mahon

Our teacher is always going on about how he thinks Donne and Rich will come up.

Something like
Donne
Rich
Boland
Larkin

love if Donne comes up

Mark200 · 13-05-2008 8:55pm

Derek Mahon

I've been hearing from all over the place that Larkin is going to come up.

I also voted Boland and Donne, because my teacher keeps going on about how we'd be stupid to leave out Donne...and Boland because she hasn't been up in a while.

smiles302 · 20-05-2008 3:10pm

John Montague

I really hope Boland comes up! She's my favourite!

Though our english says that Rich is nearly definate... And she's quite an impressive teacher, (we did the entire english course in one year!!!) Our teacher for LC1... was.... erm.... shouldn't be mentioned... Grrrr him! huff!

KERPAL · 20-05-2008 7:32pm

John Montague

Mahon and Boland WILL come up.

Its crystal clear

King Ludvig · 21-05-2008 2:30pm

John Montague

Every year so far a female poet has always come up.
At least 1 Irish poet has come up each year so far too.

Thats not to say it will be the same this year, but id say it will.

My analyis:

Rich: This is her first year on the course. In the past a poet has always come up if its their first year.

Boland: hasnt been up in 3 years and this is her last year on the course so perhaps she'll be there too.

Donne: Was up in 2003 and 2006. Dought we'll see him

Montague: ???

Plath: has come up 2003, 2004, 2007. Meh 50/50

Frost: Would like to see him up but i not sure. Came up in 2003 and 2007

Larkin: Havent looked at him

Mahon: Hasnt been up since 2004 id say about 70% likely

Im hoping for (wishful thinking):
Rich
Boland
Mahon
Frost

Mars Bar · 21-05-2008 6:05pm

John Montague

Praying on Rich or Boland but would be alright to have to do Mahon, don't like Larkin but he has to be done. I wish we were doing Montague this year...he rocks!

MrMarti · 22-05-2008 1:47pm

Adrienne Rich

thanks guys for voting keep it up please so we can get a more accurate result

KERPAL · 22-05-2008 2:10pm

John Montague

MrMarti wrote: »

thanks guys for voting keep it up please so we can get a more accurate result

Ur a gob****e if your relying on this

MrMarti · 22-05-2008 8:00pm

Adrienne Rich

KERPAL wrote: »

Ur a gob****e if your relying on this

i'm not relying on this, but i'm going to study the 5 most voted so there will be more chance that they will come up and i will have more choice in the exam,u moron...;)

hippety-pippety · 22-05-2008 8:43pm

Derek Mahon

ok i think (hope) that boland comes up. i dont know any larkin or mahon, i hate rich! but i think she'll prob come up cos i don't want her to.
i hope:
boland
donne
frost
...
how many are you supposed to study to make sure you know one that comes up?

MrMarti · 22-05-2008 9:16pm

Adrienne Rich

hippety-pippety wrote: »

ok i think (hope) that boland comes up. i dont know any larkin or mahon, i hate rich! but i think she'll prob come up cos i don't want her to.
i hope:
boland
donne
frost
...
how many are you supposed to study to make sure you know one that comes up?

you should study 5 out of 8 so you can be defenetly sure, but there's people that study 4 and i even know a guy who's studying just 2,
if you study 5 there's no risk but as you study less the risk that none of the ones that you've studyed don't come up increases.

SRFC90 · 23-05-2008 7:37pm

John Montague

Almost everyone i know are only studying 3.

23-05-2008 8:20pm

John Montague

Rich, Mahon, Donne and Larkin.

Definately.

Corruptedmorals · 24-05-2008 1:12pm

Derek Mahon

Plath, Montague and Frost not very likely..I'm pretty sure they all came up my year, last year. Bishop did the 2 years in a row thing, but even so...very doubtful.

Don't bother studying 5 poets now..you should KNOW 5 poets, of course, but there's no point in studying them all in depth now. You should study the 2 female ones, and do one of the Irish ones. If you're able to do more, cover the other Irish one..though that would be Montague. Don't spend too much time studying poetry..it's worth the least marks of the essays on Paper 2. Don't feel you HAVE to cover 5/6 poems in the essay either, I did 4 for Plath and got full marks.

KERPAL · 24-05-2008 1:47pm

John Montague

MrMarti wrote: »

i'm not relying on this, but i'm going to study the 5 most voted so there will be more chance that they will come up and i will have more choice in the exam,u moron...;)

Bit late to start studyin the 5 most voted... neway sorry for callin u a gob****e, its al the tension....:)

shazpunk · 24-05-2008 3:15pm

John Montague

Mahon and Rich would be my bet, most of us in school are just REALLY focusing on them, we haven't looked at Boland, so ifs shes the woman I'm ****ed lol! Mahon' pretty easy though, and there's a pretty good chance he'll come up.

MrMarti · 25-05-2008 9:25pm

Adrienne Rich

KERPAL wrote: »

Bit late to start studyin the 5 most voted... neway sorry for callin u a gob****e, its al the tension....:)

ya man me 2 sorry.god i'll study 4 i guess and for help i got easy frost neway. 9 days lft grrrrr

life_is_music · 25-05-2008 10:28pm

Derek Mahon

The whole point of the system is that it can't be predicted!!! People making up stats like 70% likely to come up are retarded!!!

I'd say at this stage learn 3 poets perfectly (i'm doing Larkin, Rich and Mahon) and then have a good knowledge of another 2 if the worst comes to worst.

Also, there isnt a set amount of poems you have to write about!! Its possible to get full marks with 1 poem but it would have to be a seriously brilliant analysis! I'm only planning on writing on 4 poems

Ekels · 25-05-2008 10:38pm

Bowden wrote: »

If Boland comes up (Last year on the course) means I will get an A as i know her poetry inside out so lets hope and pray!!!

It couldn't be simpler!
:rolleyes:

bright · 25-05-2008 10:38pm

As far as I remember off the top of my head,

2005: Eliot
2006: Donne
2007: Eliot
2008: In my estimation Donne is a safe bet. Not an easy question answer mind you.

Usually, LC poetry has;

One Female
One Irish
One Intellectually Exclusive (Eliot, Donne, Yeats to a lesser extent)
And one 'other'

Thats my opinion.

Ekels · 25-05-2008 10:42pm

life_is_music wrote: »

The whole point of the system is that it can't be predicted!!! People making up stats like 70% likely to come up are retarded!!!

I'd say at this stage learn 3 poets perfectly (i'm doing Larkin, Rich and Mahon) and then have a good knowledge of another 2 if the worst comes to worst.

Also, there isnt a set amount of poems you have to write about!! Its possible to get full marks with 1 poem but it would have to be a seriously brilliant analysis! I'm only planning on writing on 4 poems

That's what I'm doing.

If you haven't got a well-written essay at this stage, I think you're in trouble. It's essential to prepare an essay, analyzing 4+ poems. Adapt it to the question if the question is somewhat specific (personal response, themes etc.).

You'd have to be really really gifted and confident to go into the exam unsure of the aspects and poems which you will write about.

It's the same with the comparative studies.

Ekels · 25-05-2008 10:44pm

bright wrote: »

As far as I remember off the top of my head,

2005: Eliot
2006: Donne
2007: Eliot
2008: In my estimation Donne is a safe bet. Not an easy question answer mind you.

Usually, LC poetry has;
One Female Boland/ Rich

One Irish Boland/ Mahon

One Intellectually Exclusive (Eliot, Donne, Yeats to a lesser extent)

And one 'other' Larkin

Thats my opinion.

That's what I reckon.

cherubaul · 26-05-2008 12:02am

If you are stuck at this stage i suggest studying the female poets its an unwritten rule that one of them has to come up. Remember half the people doing the leaving cert are female and thus they mus put at least 1 female poet on the paper to avoid allegations of sexism. Check out your past papers havent seen the last 2 years but i'm pretty sure nothing has changed.

jediyoda · 26-05-2008 5:42pm

Derek Mahon

larkin (nothing since 01)
rich (first year)
boland (last year)

id advise to do boland and rich because theres always a woman and i dont think plath will be there having come up the last 2 years.......

the 3 im relying on

after that i dont really care but its between donne and montague

phase-3 · 26-05-2008 10:43pm

John Montague

Im banking on
Mahon
Boland
Larkin

Our class were told that everyone will think its Rich thats coming up but she wont! the exam makers could do a sly one!

==POETS Wich are more likely to come up poll

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