AS-Level English Literature OCR Exam

I was just reading the Cold Heaven and trying to think about what to say on structure and form, but I'm stumped Can anyone help me out please? I know it's in iambic tetrameter and it has a chiasmus to highlight the Airman's solitude, but is there anything else I could say?

I dont know if people who are doing Yeats have already seen this website but im resiting this exam after doing it in Jan 2012 and i wish i knew about this website when i did it back then

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Not sure if you're talking about Cold Heaven or Irish Airman here, but if it's Airman I'd just say the conistent iambic tetrameter, ABAB rhyme scheme and conventional structure represent the consistency of the airman's life - and maybe also the mundanity. For The Cold Heaven there's not much you can say about meter and rhyme scheme because it seems to change sporadically, so you could link that to the extreme chaos that is going on throughout the poem from the apocalyptic imagery

Thanks, sorry for being confusing, I was talking about the Irish Airman. I was wondering, for September 1913, what poems can we link it too? Obviously there's Easter 1916 and the Airman, The Fisherman, and the Second Coming but can it be linked to anything else?

I think the only other one worth linking it to is In Memory of.., the 'delirium of the brave' could be linked to the 'vague Utopia' in that poem. But the ones you have listed would be enough for the exam, you only need 4/5 other poems to compare too.

Just to add my suggestion for the Yeats, a teacher at my school who last year got the poem correct, said that he thinks it'll be Leda/Easter/In Memory Of with an outside chance of Sailing. Like many I personally hope its Easter as the political theme is easier to link to etc.

If he got the last year poem correct surely he must've predicted only one poem....now he's predicted 4...so which does he actually thing will be most likely to come up?

Does anyone have any ideas as to how to analyse structure and form in Dorian Gray?
I can think of a few isolated points, but it would be VERY difficult for me to include it in that question on moral and spiritual corruption (Jan 2013).
Any ideas? x

What novel and collection of poetry are you doing?

We are doing Frankenstein and WB Yeats

Here's my notes and quotes for intertextuality and critics if that helps... Other two are quotes other people in my class (who bothered to do them for the last week) wrote up.

I was just reading the Cold Heaven and trying to think about what to say on structure and form, but I'm stumped Can anyone help me out please? I know it's in iambic tetrameter and it has a chiasmus to highlight the Airman's solitude, but is there anything else I could say?

Wow! Thanks a lot! Currently re-reading Franky, think having the novel fresh in the mind is a big help. Then off to make notes on each theme + character and essay plans which thanks to you will mean I have a great resource to build on, thanks again !

BTW does anyone know what the A boundary is? Heard it was 88/100 last year from a post a few pages away. That's pretty damn high I thought A boundary was 80?