[Princess Kawaii]

Hi guys,
I haven't seen a thread for this exam yet, so here's one to discuss!!

I'm taking LT4 this summer, I've been studying the poems by William Blake and the plays The Tempest and Dr Faustus.

Any tips how to tackle the essay on the unseen poetry?

Discuss or ask any questions if you want.

Good Luck

[christacrisp]

Hi,

this is more of a revision tip, so not sure if it will help, but I've been printing off copies of the 'poem of the week' http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/series/poemoftheweek and giving myself 10 minutes to annotate them. Just good practice I think.

In terms of answering the question, I tend to find 3 points related to the question, so lets say the question was about love, I would maybe isolate 3 types of love, for example relationship type love-positive and negative aspects of (so My Pretty Rose Tree), love between child and parent (infant joy) and universal love ( The Clod and the Pebble), then I would look at the unseen poem and see if there are 3 points that I can use to either agree with the point from Blake's essay, or that contrast it. If the ideas aren't similar, then you can always use techniques, such as use of metaphor etc! If it's reasurring, I've been getting between b's and a*'s in essays so far, so hopefully I'm not far off with my technique for the essay,

hope this helps,

good luck

[Bright]

I am doing this exam as well. Doing William Blake and Oedipus with King Lear. Haven't done anything yet.

[Dusty12]

I'm studying King Lear/Oedipus and The Wife of Bath. I'm so terrified of this exam!

I can hardly write a proper essay for the unseen poetry question, even using all my notes and the text! I think I'd prefer to do Blake, because at least they're separate poems and easier to remember.

I will be indebted to anyone who can offer advice for this exam.

[Princess Kawaii]

(Original post by christacrisp)
Hi,

this is more of a revision tip, so not sure if it will help, but I've been printing off copies of the 'poem of the week' http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/series/poemoftheweek and giving myself 10 minutes to annotate them. Just good practice I think.

In terms of answering the question, I tend to find 3 points related to the question, so lets say the question was about love, I would maybe isolate 3 types of love, for example relationship type love-positive and negative aspects of (so My Pretty Rose Tree), love between child and parent (infant joy) and universal love ( The Clod and the Pebble), then I would look at the unseen poem and see if there are 3 points that I can use to either agree with the point from Blake's essay, or that contrast it. If the ideas aren't similar, then you can always use techniques, such as use of metaphor etc! If it's reasurring, I've been getting between b's and a*'s in essays so far, so hopefully I'm not far off with my technique for the essay,

hope this helps,

good luck

Hey there
Thanks for the tip...I think I'll try that!
Thats some good advice, makes it seem much easier
Great to hear about ur grades that's awesome...keep it up and u'll get top grade! Good Luck to you too

[Princess Kawaii]

(Original post by Bright)
I am doing this exam as well. Doing William Blake and Oedipus with King Lear. Haven't done anything yet.

Hey! Have you got any key quotes for Blake for themes and stuff?
We could use this as a revision thread, and share notes and quotes

(Original post by Dusty12)
I'm studying King Lear/Oedipus and The Wife of Bath. I'm so terrified of this exam!

I can hardly write a proper essay for the unseen poetry question, even using all my notes and the text! I think I'd prefer to do Blake, because at least they're separate poems and easier to remember.

I will be indebted to anyone who can offer advice for this exam.

This is exam is going to be very hard imo, i wonder how pwople get As and A*s in this exam.
We've done a timed essay before the hols, and tomorrow we're probably going to get it back, and then I can really see how badly I've done :s
Have you started compling notes yet?

[Nibz93]

Nice to see a thread for the few lonely WJEC people .

I'm doing The Wife of Bath, and the Tempest with Dr Faustus.

I must admit I'm quite unsure how to revise for the unseen poetry with Chaucer, but I think Tempest and Faustus shouldn't be too bad.

Pretty much crapping myself at the prospect of a closed text exam really to be honest.

[Princess Kawaii]

(Original post by Nibz93)
Nice to see a thread for the few lonely WJEC people .

I'm doing The Wife of Bath, and the Tempest with Dr Faustus.

I must admit I'm quite unsure how to revise for the unseen poetry with Chaucer, but I think Tempest and Faustus shouldn't be too bad.

Pretty much crapping myself at the prospect of a closed text exam really to be honest.

Hii....Yep indeed we are a lonely

Have u started revising yet? Learnt any quotes?

[Princess Kawaii]

For the poetry: Should you memorise the whole of the poems or select a few quotes from each peom to learn instead?

[star_turtle]

I'm doing the exam on The Wife of Bath and Lear with Oedipus Rex. I'm so worried about memorising quotes! I write them on little note cards with a short analysis on the back and this kinda works. I wish I started to learn them right from the begining though :/

[Nibz93]

(Original post by Princess Kawaii)
Hii....Yep indeed we are a lonely

Have u started revising yet? Learnt any quotes?

I must admit I haven't really started revising English Lit yet, as it's my penultimate exam. I reckon Tempest and Faustus will be a walk in the park compared with Wife of Bath; I'm really going to have to dig in hard to get the A I need!

[christacrisp]

(Original post by Princess Kawaii)
Hey there
Thanks for the tip...I think I'll try that!
Thats some good advice, makes it seem much easier
Great to hear about ur grades that's awesome...keep it up and u'll get top grade! Good Luck to you too

glad it helped!! thanks!! Loads of luck in the exam!

[christacrisp]

I find if I record myself saying the poems and listen to it, even absent mindedly, it sinks in and you find yourself knowing quotes without even realising it. We've been told to try and memorise 10 poems that we can apply to lots of themes and we comfortable using. I have a rubbish memory, but if you do essay practice etc then I find that you can kind of remember stuff without sitting and trying to learn it deliberately.

[christacrisp]

p.s I'm happy to post essays I've done for Blake if you need examples etc just to look at or borrow ideas from, I usually find reading other peoples essays can help you look at it from a new perspective

[Dusty12]

You're so lucky doing Blake! The Wife of Bath is like one massive poem, and it's hard to record it because it's so different to pronounce. Plus ALL the WJEC examples are on Blake.

[christacrisp]

(Original post by Dusty12)
You're so lucky doing Blake! The Wife of Bath is like one massive poem, and it's hard to record it because it's so different to pronounce. Plus ALL the WJEC examples are on Blake.

thats really annoying, although in a way it means that you're more or less restricted to certain themes? whereas Blake, almost anything could come up! There are short readings of the poem on youtube, but they aren't great! I would just focus on sections then that are easy to analyse

[christacrisp]

for blake, a little creepy but maybe useful

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8QHnfqLqxc

[AishaTara]

(Original post by christacrisp)
for blake, a little creepy but maybe useful

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8QHnfqLqxc

(Original post by Dusty12)
You're so lucky doing Blake! The Wife of Bath is like one massive poem, and it's hard to record it because it's so different to pronounce. Plus ALL the WJEC examples are on Blake.

(Original post by Nibz93)
I must admit I haven't really started revising English Lit yet, as it's my penultimate exam. I reckon Tempest and Faustus will be a walk in the park compared with Wife of Bath; I'm really going to have to dig in hard to get the A I need!

Just wondering if any of you could tell me if this is grammatically correct:

'Participating in this programme will allow me to appreciatively benefit from this opportunity. '

(its a language course in spanish im applying for -application in English ) or how it would be re-worded

thanks in advance

[placeboeffect]

Anyone doing Hamlet/Revenger's Tragedy or John Donne?
Donne is okay (-ish), but I can feel that Hamlet is gonna go really bad. Anyone know roughly how many quotes you should learn?

[SaharaDesert]

I'm doing Oedipus with King Lear plus Wife of Bath.