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anyone else doing french poetry for AQA A2?

basically, I hate the book we're studying (un sac de billes) so much & since its 400 pages long and I havent learnt it, it is no less risky for me to teach myself french poetry.

I would like to know if anyone else is doing the topic and can tell me anything about it- tips/info/nota bona that you cant get from AQA

ive decided to do Baudelaire & rimbaud as my main poets and look at poems from Allopinaire, Mallarme, and andre breton.

Ive looked at the past papers- my impression is the questions are so open ended you can get away with only knowing 5 poems for 1 poet.
I think ill start with the 2 i mentioned, pick a handful of poems each and go from there

any comment would be much appreciated

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