AQA AS English Literature (Shakespeare and Poetry) - 20th May 2016

Hi,

I find it quite difficult to revise for English last minute, what works for me is just reading the texts over a couple of times and making up exam questions that I then answer. I am quite scared for this exam though, I feel like 90 is nowhere near enough time for this :/

I'm studying Othello and pre-1900 literature, what about you? What kind of questions would you hope to come up?

I'm also doing Othello and pre-1900

To be honest I love all of the poems, but if Garden of Love, Sonnet 116 or Who so List to Hunt came up I would be especially pleased. For Othello, I'm hoping it'll be something on Desdemona and not one of the secondary characters. I'm having a nightmare trying to learn quotes!!

I'm also doing Othello and pre-1900

To be honest I love all of the poems, but if Garden of Love, Sonnet 116 or Who so List to Hunt came up I would be especially pleased. For Othello, I'm hoping it'll be something on Desdemona and not one of the secondary characters. I'm having a nightmare trying to learn quotes!!

I agree with you for both, except that I struggle with the Garden of Love haha, that poem was rushed so I struggle to find aspects of love.

Desemona and Othello is fairly easy to analyse, in comparison to other characters like Iago because there's much more emphasis, I have found, on Desdemona and Othello in the play.

I wrote down as many quotes as I could down, plus my teacher tests us all on key quotes at the start of every lesson - but I understand what you mean about learning quotes, it''s really hard to learn quotes over a play with 5 acts!!!!

I agree with you for both, except that I struggle with the Garden of Love haha, that poem was rushed so I struggle to find aspects of love.

Desemona and Othello is fairly easy to analyse, in comparison to other characters like Iago because there's much more emphasis, I have found, on Desdemona and Othello in the play.

I wrote down as many quotes as I could down, plus my teacher tests us all on key quotes at the start of every lesson - but I understand what you mean about learning quotes, it''s really hard to learn quotes over a play with 5 acts!!!!

Hm I wouldn't mind any of the poems except for La Belle Dame and Num Sum Qualis (I'm just not a fan of them ahah) but I do have a feeling that they might use Remember by Rosetti since it seems like an interesting concept to talk about how she's the only woman and there are quite a few links I think but that's just my guess.
If you're having difficulty learning quotes, pick the 3/4 most important ones for each character or theme depending on how you've been learning them. We get the extract which is the main focus so I think we aren't expected to know like 80 different quotes just like that (would be a bit crazy I think)
Hopefully they will go easy on us this year though!

I'm also doing Othello and pre-1900 poetry! I'm especially nervous for the poetry, I hate The Scrutiny and The Flea so I hope that they don't come up, but Non Sum/Whoso List would be P E R F E C T !!!
As for Othello, I doubt that the question will be on Desdemona because it's one of the specimen paper questions (I think it is, correct me if I'm wrong! We did it as our mock in January). I hope that it'll be on Iago because I think he's such an interesting character, he's in control and scheming and insanely intelligent, whereas Othello is a bit boring and allows his jealousy to blind him 😬
What are you guys thinking about keeping/dropping English next year?

I'm doing Rossetti and Hamlet and I am finding it so difficult to study for it, and I'm so scared I won't get the grade I want because of assessment objectives, crying and dying hahaha

Yeah I know what you mean, I don't have a lot on the Garden of Love and all I could come up with is the idea of freedom to love whoever you want and how universal it is - but main link to Sonnet 116 (there's not a lot on it :/ )

I kind of want a question on the women's attitude to love, I think it would be quite a good question but they might just give us something easier. It's so hard to learn so many quotes! I mean as long as maybe they'd give us more time to study the texts and more time in the exam it would be okay, but it just seems unfair for all of us - doesn't show our real writing abilities which sucks.

I'm also doing Othello and pre-1900 poetry! I'm especially nervous for the poetry, I hate The Scrutiny and The Flea so I hope that they don't come up, but Non Sum/Whoso List would be P E R F E C T !!!
As for Othello, I doubt that the question will be on Desdemona because it's one of the specimen paper questions (I think it is, correct me if I'm wrong! We did it as our mock in January). I hope that it'll be on Iago because I think he's such an interesting character, he's in control and scheming and insanely intelligent, whereas Othello is a bit boring and allows his jealousy to blind him 😬
What are you guys thinking about keeping/dropping English next year?

hi does anyone have an idea how to link The Ruined Maid to aspects of love.. would be very helpful !!

'Melia is a prostitute, which obviously means that 'Melia must have been romantically involved with other men as a prostitute. Because her love for that person has caused her to be "ruined" (as she was not a virgin anymore upon being a prostitute) and lose the status which she once had as a girl living in the country and gain the lowest of the lowest status, you could argue that love is presented a source of destruction for that individual (in this case 'Melia).

I hope this helps, and that's the only aspect of love I can think of really. I think The Ruined Maid is good in terms of context, but not in terms of aspect of love, I found it hard to think of comments in relation.

thank you so much! much appreciated

I am also doing Hamlet !!! Remember to learn critics quotes