Songs of ourselves! CIE IGCSE EXAM MONDAY

starting to panic as i have no notes on the following poems:

Time by Allen Curnow,
The Flower-fed Buffasloes by Vachel Lindsay,
On the grasshopper and the cricket by John Keats,
Full moon and Little Frieda by Ted Hughes,
and So we'll go no more aroving!

Anyone got some useful annotations? or Analysis of the poems?

Any help is appreciated!!

Reply 1

member963009

give me your email address ill sned you another thing about flower fed buffaloes and so we'll go no more aroving as it wont let me upload it here. dw remember you have a lot of choice! good luck :smile:

Byron.pdf614.1KB

So We'll Go No More A Roving.docx32.5KB

full_moon_and_little_frieda-ppt.pptx138.7KB

Vachel Lindsay The Flower Fed Buffaloes AS (1).docx57.9KB

time_-_poem.pptx398.9KB

Reply 2

member963009

do you have any notes on first love?

Reply 3

JessicaAl

OP

Original post by sahajkaur

give me your email address ill sned you another thing about flower fed buffaloes and so we'll go no more aroving as it wont let me upload it here. dw remember you have a lot of choice! good luck :smile:

you're an absolute star!! if anyone has anymore notes please post them here!!

Reply 4

JessicaAl

OP

my notes on first love:

First Love By John Clare

It is important to note that the title of the piece is "First Love".* When a situation is experienced for the first time it is often unrecognised or defined, but Clare clearly states this as "Love" without arguing what "love" is.* The poem addresses basic concepts and attributes them to feeling.*

Could be based on a stereotype of the phrase love at first sight. He talks about a loved which occurred on first sight and although no words are exchanged he feels a connection with her. He is more lustful.

His love for her is more physical than emotional I know this from quotes:

"Blood rushed to my face"
"My eyesight quite away" - Love is blind??
"My legs refused to walk away"
"Stole my heart" - Her beauty stole her heart
"clay" - He says that she has control over him, like he literally couldn't move
The language used is simple which reflects his innocence and naivety.

He uses similes to convey her beauty "Her face it bloomed like a sweet flower"
It's a romantic charming intimate poem.

It is a personal reaction, written with timeless, impersonal typography that any soul can relate to.* It is benign and clichéd

In the final stanza he repeats what he said at the start about 'I never saw a face so sweet' Which infers that he can't get her out of his head.
"My heart has left its dwelling place" - His heart is left with her and he will never be the same.

Reply 5

LusterMX

This site contains notes on all of the songs of ourselves poems. They also have really useful powerpoints;
http://englishlanguageliterature.wordpress.com/2011/04/26/powerpoints-on-igcse-poems-2010-2012-selection/

Reply 6

JessicaAl

OP

does anyone have the questions from previous years?

Reply 7

dhanp79

Does anyone have anything on Marrysong and Sonnet 29/43?

Thanks for any replies, I'd really appreciate it :smile:

Reply 8

dhanp79

Original post by JessicaAl

does anyone have the questions from previous years?

Here are a few, you should be able to zoom in if it's a bit small

Poetry past qs.jpg539.5KB

Reply 9

Coco406

Not meaning to take the focus away from Songs of Ourselves, but are any of you doing Journey's End for the drama? I lost all of notes last week because my computer crashed-- getting very stressed now

Reply 10

Mazzini

16

AAH! LOST MY ANNOTATED COPY OF SONGS OF OURSELVES! :eek:

Edit: Found it :biggrin:

(edited 11 years ago)

Reply 11

JessicaAl

OP

Original post by dhanp79

Does anyone have anything on Marrysong and Sonnet 29/43?

Thanks for any replies, I'd really appreciate it :smile:

Marrysong By Dennis Scott

Mixed views as to whether he views her positively or negatively.
The poet describes his wife's mood changes and how interesting he finds it to map out her mind but the problem he encounters in doing so as she is always change. He never mentions he physical beauty but instead her mind.

Many references to geography showing he is bewildered by her and she like an atlas to him. He always refers to the problematic parts of the scenery.
"He charted" - This meaning he maps her out and wants to understand her, proving the point that he is always trying.

"Accepted" - He doesn't want to change her or argue, although he often maps and charts her out wrong

Written in third person showing distance or the idea that it's a bird eyes view and it's zoomed out, or spaced out.
Free verse which shows he could be pensive, he's stumbling through words trying to work her out. This could suggest he cares about her as he spend time thinking about her.

The map was never true". He described her as a "territory without seasons" in which we see reflected an angry woman that for moments he seems to love him and sometimes not "... her love shortened or grew ...". One way or another he ends up not figuring out what was going on with her but taking away his frustration "he accepted that geography". And above all her mood swings and unpredictableness he still loved her.

Many metaphors used:
"There were stones in her voice"
"The shadows of her love"
The metaphors make it more believable that he knows her as he is saying she is literally like that.

Reply 12

JessicaAl

OP

does anyone have any notes on the time!! it's the only poem that's never come up!!

Reply 13

member963009

ive uploaded a file up there for time by allen curnow :smile:

^^

Reply 14

LusterMX

Original post by JessicaAl

does anyone have any notes on the time!! it's the only poem that's never come up!!

Really? Has Time been the only poem to not come up so far?
Then I hope we can safely predict that it will come up tomorrow... I'll focus on this poem.

Reply 15

member963009

You're wrong Time has come up, I have a list of all past questions and it was there :smile:

Reply 16

LusterMX

Right... What about Report to wordsworth? I think that hasn't come up

Reply 17

member963009

ill post the list of questions we got given here

IGCSE past questions on Songs of Ourselves Section 3 (1).docx28.9KB

Reply 18

dhanp79

Original post by JessicaAl

Marrysong By Dennis Scott

Mixed views as to whether he views her positively or negatively.
The poet describes his wife's mood changes and how interesting he finds it to map out her mind but the problem he encounters in doing so as she is always change. He never mentions he physical beauty but instead her mind.

Many references to geography showing he is bewildered by her and she like an atlas to him. He always refers to the problematic parts of the scenery.
"He charted" - This meaning he maps her out and wants to understand her, proving the point that he is always trying.

"Accepted" - He doesn't want to change her or argue, although he often maps and charts her out wrong

Written in third person showing distance or the idea that it's a bird eyes view and it's zoomed out, or spaced out.
Free verse which shows he could be pensive, he's stumbling through words trying to work her out. This could suggest he cares about her as he spend time thinking about her.

The map was never true". He described her as a "territory without seasons" in which we see reflected an angry woman that for moments he seems to love him and sometimes not "... her love shortened or grew ...". One way or another he ends up not figuring out what was going on with her but taking away his frustration "he accepted that geography". And above all her mood swings and unpredictableness he still loved her.

Many metaphors used:
"There were stones in her voice"
"The shadows of her love"
The metaphors make it more believable that he knows her as he is saying she is literally like that.