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AQA English Literature A Unit 1 - 8th June 2010

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at least u know some

Beth1234

I'm sure you're not :smile:

But what option are you doing? And what do you mean by 'im doing...'?

ahh im really confused haha i think you're all doing something different to me but im AQA. huh?!

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Doublereedfreak

Lol is everyone gathering loadsssss of wider reading?
I'm jsut using one of each format like poetry and prose and finding quotes that I can force to apply to anything.

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Beth1234

iPoo'd

What do you think itll be about tommmorow, Q1?

About? hmmm...
Well, I doubt war is going to come up again, maybe class or religion? :s-smilie:

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Nyxerise

iPoo'd

Me too i dont know any poems!!!!!! Can you help me theme :smile:

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Ill do what i can to help you lol!

Hardy's main themes are:
The Women Question - The Ruined Maid and both of the tragedies.
War - Drummer Hodge and The Oxen
Loss of faith in religion - The Levelled Churchyard, Channel Firing
Fate - Hap and Convergence of the Twain
Emma - any of the Emma poems
Apprehension for the turn of the century - The Darkling Thrush
Imperialism - Convergence of the Twain
Rural life - Throwing A Tree, We Field Women

A lot of Hardy's themes (apprehension for turn of the century and the women question, for example) were quite typical for that time, but his poems on fate and war show how out of step he was with his contemporaries.

That's what I've got anyway :smile:

Hope it helps?

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Finite

Beth1234

The Kite Runner isn't poetry :p:

As far as I know, for the poetry section, you do not need to demonstrate wider reading... if I am wrong, could someone alert me to my ignorance? :biggrin:

Nope. But it w2ould be a good idea to get critical view stuff if that count as 'wider reading' :grin:

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Beth1234

green_leaf

ahh im really confused haha i think you're all doing something different to me but im AQA. huh?!

Interesting...
Are you specification B, by any chance? :confused:

Reply 27

Finite

Oh, anyone doing Larkin?

Reply 28

Nyxerise

Beth1234

About? hmmm...
Well, I doubt war is going to come up again, maybe class or religion? :s-smilie:

I'm hoping for class!

Reply 29

iPoo'd

Beth1234

About? hmmm...
Well, I doubt war is going to come up again, maybe class or religion? :s-smilie:

lol are we talking about the same thing? There was no war?!

Reply 30

green_leaf

i dont have a poetry section?

Reply 31

iPoo'd

The last one was about women, and poverty before that?

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green_leaf

Beth1234

Interesting...
Are you specification B, by any chance? :confused:

must be haha! ohh thank god i thought i was gonna walk in tomoro with a load of things i dont know!! :smile:

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Beth1234

beth101

duffy is a boring old sod! ive already done my exam on her and armitage though :/ which tier are all you lot doing?

Teir? maybe i should have made it clear in the title that I meant AS/A level :biggrin:

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Nyxerise

iPoo'd

The last one was about women, and poverty before that?

Are you talking about the poetry section or the wider reading?

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iPoo'd

Nyxerise

Are you talking about the poetry section or the wider reading?

both lol but then i was referring to wider reading...

how have you been revising the poems?

Reply 36

username381250

I am so unbelievably scared. Anyone studying Hardy?

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Nyxerise

Bossa Nova

I am so unbelievably scared. Anyone studying Hardy?

Me! I'm terrified! :frown:

Reply 38

Nyxerise

iPoo'd

both lol but then i was referring to wider reading...

how have you been revising the poems?

Mostly I just read over them and then pick the ones I usually use in my past papers and do spider diagrams with the most important points on each one? It's really hard to revise poems, especially when there's that many...