How many poems should I know?

mista_2k10 · 03-06-2010 9:51am #1

How many poems should i know for english? Would 4 or 5 be ok?

WanderingSoul · 03-06-2010 10:11am

Once your 4 or 5 cover a fair amount of aspects: an unusual technique/style, a theme "that makes you think", a war poem, a poem that deals with love/relationships . . .

Basically: once they're not all very similar 4 or 5 would be loads.

Closed ac · 03-06-2010 2:45pm

Well, it's a bit late now, but ideally:

- Two poems by the same poet.
- Two poems with different opinions on a subject.
- A war poem.
- A love poem.
- A humourous/happy poem.
- A poem with a lot of techniques or imagery.

I've got 10 poems I think, so I'm pretty confident for the poetry question.

Good luck.

kevin12345 · 03-06-2010 3:46pm

DKZ wrote: »

Well, it's a bit late now, but ideally:

- Two poems by the same poet.
- Two poems with different opinions on a subject.
- A war poem.
- A love poem.
- A humourous/happy poem.
- A poem with a lot of techniques or imagery.

I've got 10 poems I think, so I'm pretty confident for the poetry question.

Good luck.

I've my 4/5 anyway

Conquerors - deals with war/imagery/death/techniques
Eden Rock - its a happy poem about death

Funeral Blues to link with Eden Rock for two poem question
First death in nova scotia - innocence
Blackberry picking - nature

should do me

Chuchoter · 03-06-2010 3:51pm

4 or 5 is fine if they are good and cover a lot of topics. Have two poems to compare on the same theme, two by the same author, a war poem and one on with a lot of imagery. But the war poem is important. Have one of those if nothing else

EDIT: Dulce et decorum est, thats the one I was thinking of!!! Learn that!

kevin12345 · 03-06-2010 4:24pm

crayolastereo wrote: »

4 or 5 is fine if they are good and cover a lot of topics. Have two poems to compare on the same theme, two by the same author, a war poem and one on with a lot of imagery. But the war poem is important. Have one of those if nothing else

war came up in 2009 so it's not likely to come up again this year but it's a possibility :rolleyes:

Closed ac · 03-06-2010 4:30pm

kevin12345 wrote: »

war came up in 2009 so it's not likely to come up again this year but it's a possibility :rolleyes:

Why the rolleyes?

kevin12345 · 03-06-2010 4:58pm

DKZ wrote: »

Why the rolleyes?

Because secretly I'm trying to convince myself WAR WILL NOT COME UP :pac:

Toyota_Avensis · 03-06-2010 7:43pm

4 or 5? :O
I'm living by Dulce Et Decorum Est :O

WanderingSoul · 03-06-2010 7:51pm

I plan to know 8 altogether (Limbo, Mid-term Break, Dulce Et Decorum Est, When All The Others, Digging, Island Man, Valentine [it's about an onion

] and The Cloths Of Heaven).

However I'll be focusing on 5 and making sure I know them inside out (Limbo, Mid-term Break, Dulce Et Decorum Est, When All The Others and The Cloths Of Heaven).

DylanS09 · 03-06-2010 7:52pm

I don't really know any poems...:/
*heads to "Notes" thread*. :pac:

Closed ac · 03-06-2010 7:57pm

To be honest, "Dulce et Decorum est" is all you really need!

It seems to cover everything! :pac:

Toyota_Avensis · 03-06-2010 7:57pm

Apparently Laughter is a good one for covering many aspects.. Anyway the Poetry Question is designed to fit around almost any poem?
I've been given a number of poems but only one with an analyzed set of notes with it, Dulce Et Decorum Est. I hope to fit it around any possible arising questions.. I'll go practice a random one (year) now

Regards predictions, I hear the poetry one is more likely to be to comment on skills/technique/technicalities of the poem really. Supposedly, not generalized to War or Love.. Anyway they appeared last year.

mista_2k10 · 03-06-2010 9:23pm

Ok, i know 'Dulce et decorum est' and 'Base Details' pretty well. But ill be going over a few poems by yeats, and two by kavanagh, so i should be okay right?

whistlin_boy · 04-06-2010 1:24pm

I think I've learned enough but just to make sure...........
1. Digging:nature
2. Follower: to cover two poems and poet question....also for family relationships.
3.Dulce et Decorum Est: interesting title,war, imagery,death
4. Mid-Term Break: youth, death
5. The Road Not Taken: life choices,poetic techniques (allegory)
6. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening: nature, regret
7. Sonnet no. 18 :Love
8. Child (by Sylvia Plath): love of child and also mental illness

To ye think that will be enough..................

suitcasepink · 04-06-2010 1:34pm

Whistlin Boy yea you'll defo be grand with that...

Im relying on The Early Purges, Digging, and to a lesser extent When all the Others, Mid Term Break and Dulce et Decorum est...
But if I learn them decently im pretty happy tbh My teacher taught us how to weave them into any kid of question. I had to do a question on why I thought Digging would or wouldnt be a good poem for Valentines day.. :pac:

So yea you have plenty poems!

StressedOverJC · 04-06-2010 8:01pm

i did
-mid-term break
-when all the others
-blackberry picking
-the early purges
(all by seamus heaney)
-the daffodils(willaim wordsworth)
-the listeners(walter de la mere)
-everyone sang(siegfried sasson)
-for heidi with blue hair(i cant remember the poet)

do ye think they will be ok? another class in my year are studying a poem that their english teacher wote for her husband on her wedding day as a love poem! LOL! is that even allowed?

Parawhore.xD · 05-06-2010 10:21pm

I'm learning/have learned:
-Dulce Et Decorum Est(Owen)
-Base Details(Sassoon)
-But You Didn't(Glass possibly?)
-He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven(Yeats)(personal fav)
-Lake Isle Of Inisfree(Yeats)
-Digging(Heaney)
-Back In The Playground Blues(Cant remeber who by

)
I think I'll pretty much be covered for everything with that!:D

Tommyrawr · 06-06-2010 1:32pm

im learning 4
The road not taken Robert Frost (Options in life)
base details Seigfried Sassoon (war,Death)
My parents kept me from children who were rough Stephen Spender(Bullying and Problems in society)
Squaring Up - Not sure of the poet(Abuse,not meeting expectations,personality differences)

if anyone knows where i can get the squaring up poem could you send me the link cause i cant find the sheet and cant find it anywhere online =S

Colm! · 07-06-2010 12:50pm

bold and red are my edits

DKZ wrote: »

- Two poems by the same poet.
W.B Yeats: An Irish Airman Forsees His Death, When You Are Old, The Wild Swans at Coole
(backup)Seamus Heaney: Mid-Term Break, Blackberry Picking, Digging
- Two poems with different opinions on a subject.
War: An Irish Airman..., Dulce Et Decorum Est
- A war poem.
as above.
- A love poem.
When You Are Old...
- A humourous/happy poem.
Base Details (humor, no happiness there)
- A poem with a lot of techniques or imagery.
Dulce Et Decorum, Blackberry Picking

Total, 8 poems. As it stands though, Mid-Term Break and Digging are really only needed if you want to compare Heaney's poems instead of Yeats', but Yeats' are multi-purpose. Only one of Heaney's shows up in another one of the categories above.

Those were the ones we covered in class: I have a bit of an interest in this line though, plus my mother is an english teacher so I've got Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley done out as well. Not sure if I'll use it, but it WOULD be quite useful

dandermotj · 07-06-2010 12:51pm

Jesus, I'm only doing two! Didn't realise people were doing 10 poems.. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost is the poem I've studied really well

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