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Post by fleabitten on May 12, 2009 20:29:30 GMT
I have an eng lit exam next week and the poetry section is on a selection of poems from William Wordsworth and William Blake. Now I dont suppose there is a revision guide on this so im a bit stuck as to how to revise them! We have a workbook with the poems in it and theyre all annotated and stuff - there is also summary notes with each one explaining it a bit more but thats about it. How could I go about revising this?  I would usually make notes and then read through them before I go to the exam but I dont see how I could make notes on the poems without basically just copying everything out again! Help needed  |
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Post by maximum on May 12, 2009 20:35:08 GMT
it is a veeeeeeerrrrry long time since I was at school so i will not be much help but I think from my memories you need to understand what the poem is about what analogies the poet is using and what that means to you.
I dont think it is a totally objective section there has to be some subjective parts to it? still as I said it was slate and chalk for me!
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Post by Jen on May 13, 2009 14:02:27 GMT
read the poems through with them annotated and then take a blank version of the poems and rea nnotate them. do this a couple of times for each poem (i know it will take quite a bit of time but it works honest). this is what i did for all my poems in my lit exam and amazingly i passed it!!!!!! i can still remember most of the poems now and could easily annotate them if need be!!!!! GOOD LUCK!!!!!  |
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Post by scattymare on May 14, 2009 7:52:48 GMT
Eurggh Wordsworth. We had a Wordsworth poem (though it was more like an essay) for my English coursework. I didn't understand a bloomin word of it!!
Sorry not much help am I!! Been far too long since I've done exams. Maxi & Jens advice sounds good.
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Post by fleabitten on May 14, 2009 10:13:23 GMT
There is one very long one called Nutting which is what it could be or Prelude. Thanks for the advice Jen - got that to look forward to then. Attempting to revise Far From The Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy - and also have An Inspector Calls by JB Priestly to do as well. Meh. Will let you know how I get on in the exam - haha!  |
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Post by scattymare on May 14, 2009 11:06:24 GMT
Ooh I read an Inspector Calls as well many moons ago - very stange book if I remember rightly!
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Post by fleabitten on May 14, 2009 13:43:25 GMT
Yeah, the ending is quite weird isnt it!?
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Post by fleabitten on May 19, 2009 21:19:06 GMT
Well, the exam went well - very surprised. I got all the questions finished and I wrote about 2 and a half sides for each of the books. I think I could have written more if I had more time to think but it was just comfortable - 2 hrs and 15 mins. In my mock I failed both my english exams - cringe. Anyway - not sure if ive passed it or not - i did foundation you can only get up to a C but at least ive attempted all the questions and wrote a decent amount for each.
Ended up i didnt get any time to revise the poetry or an inspector calls - quite glad that i revised far from the madding crowd as it is quite a complicated book. I also found that I could have written a whole load more for the poetry section ; i was expecting it to be really tricky.
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