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Anyone doing English Lit with WJEC?

How are you revising? Who else is learning about Plath's poetry? The exam is getting scarily close now, although in a way I'm looking forward to it!?

Reply 1

lauralegend

Yep thats me!

I've chosen 12 Plath poems that I think generally cover all the main themes, and I'm going to revise them specifically... How about you?

Reply 2

Hevonen

I'm doing a similar thing, mainly revising poems which cover the main themes. I'm hoping a question on the use of the 'Natural World' might come up but who knows. I'm also matching Plath poems up to some of Ted Hughes' poems with similar themes. Ahh wasn't Plath a happy writer lol (!).

Reply 3

lauralegend

haha yeah lol.

only thing is...in the january exam that some people did there was a question on how they display setting, so it might not come up again straight after?

Reply 4

Hevonen

Yeah it probably won't come up, oh well maybe 'Identity' will. Or something completely random.

Reply 5

lauralegend

identity..hmm...what poems would you use for that?

If it were me, I'd like one on fatherhood or paranoia :smile:

Reply 6

Hevonen

I've been looking at Daddy, Birthday Present, Facelift, Tulips and Mirror for Identity. Which poems would you use for fatherhood?

Reply 7

steph_v

I am, but I'm not really revising. I don't know how. That's not really good.
What play are you doing? I'm doing Arcadia.

Reply 8

lauralegend

Hevonen

I've been looking at Daddy, Birthday Present, Facelift, Tulips and Mirror for Identity. Which poems would you use for fatherhood?

Well, Daddy of course. Then I'd probably go with Full Fathom Five. For Hughes I'd take 'Being Christlike' and 'The Bee God'. I'm trying to limit myself to just 2 poems for Plath cos otherwise I tend to not go deep enough. And also the mark schemey people suggested it :smile:

As for the play, I'm doing Miller's Broken Glass. It's good =]

Reply 9

Hevonen

I find the best way of revising for English lit. seems to be making notes on themes and putting certain poem's/scene's together with others both from the same author and another related poem/fact relating to context. Also doing plenty of practise papers is helpful. English is meant to be one of the hardest subjects to revise 'tho.
I'm doing Murmuring Judges as the play.