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I hate poetry... and as poetry goes, I dislike Seamus Heaney poetry more than most...

Toy Soldier

and yet, here I sit trying to write a Heaney essay for tomorrow. *sigh*

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Reply 1

SketchyCanvas~

I remeber that Heany bloke from GCSEs :vmad:

Reply 2

Toy Soldier

My dislike started in Advanced Higher, when I got very sick of his obsession with all things related to bogs. Thankfully, this poem (The Forge) has little to do with bogs. Still not a fan though.

Reply 3

foxo

I like some poetry. "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost is great. I love Robert Burns. But, mostly, I think poetry is a fairly sh*te medium of literature. I've not read enough Heaney to make an accurate judgement of him, but what I have read, I liked.

There's too much emphasis on poetry at Advanced Higher.

Reply 4

Amlea

heaney is soooooooooooo bland and annoying!!!

Reply 5

Toy Soldier

I'm really struggling with this essay, I don't know howto criticise poetry at all, I have no clue about all the jargon (the metre of a sonnet and iambic pentametre and all that jazz). To be honest I'd love to have the weekend to work on it, but if I hand it in 3 days late I drop a whole grade. Meh. And since my last essay got dropped from an A- to a C+ for late hand in, I'm not to keen on missing any more deadlines.

Reply 6

ancientone

I don't know Heaney, but I can't agree about poetry in general. Whilst I don't read a great deal of it, there is some fantsatic stuff out there.

Good luck on the essay anyway.

Reply 7

anycon

You are all id-i-ots.

Reply 8

Toy Soldier

anycon

You are all id-i-ots.

Care to elaborate?

Reply 9

Syntax

I hated Heaney during GCSE too.. I just remember bogs and potatoes. Not much fun

I'm not a big fan of poetry in general though.. well, reading it is fine, but then getting hyper-analytical about inversions of syntax blah blah blah is boring as hell. Blake is cool though :smile:

Reply 10

Dalimyr

Toy Soldier

My dislike started in Advanced Higher, when I got very sick of his obsession with all things related to bogs.

Not that I care to remember much about my years of English (horrible memories of inept teachers, one of whom had a grudge against me), but wasn't Heaney a Northern Irish farmer or something like that? What do you expect him to write about?

Though I do feel your pain - I did some Heaney stuff for either Standard Grade or my first attempt at Higher, and I despised it.

Reply 11

Scheherazade

Toy Soldier

and yet, here I sit trying to write a Heaney essay for tomorrow. *sigh*

You know there is a genuine books forum you can post in?

Or do you not want to increase your post count, thereby limiting yourself to CHAT?

Reply 12

Natalie Lane

ayaan

You know there is a genuine books forum you can post in?

Or do you not want to increase your post count, thereby limiting yourself to CHAT?

Er... I don't think the point of this was to actually discuss poetry but rather share his own moaning. :redface:

Reply 13

Scheherazade

That's what we do in the books forum!
mainly moan.

Reply 14

Natalie Lane

ayaan

That's what we do in the books forum!
mainly moan.

True, I think I've mentioned my hate for Mosquito Coast there about 1752 times...

Reply 15

~MOi~

who is heaney?
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am i lucky not to know him? :p:

Reply 16

Toy Soldier

ayaan

You know there is a genuine books forum you can post in?

Or do you not want to increase your post count, thereby limiting yourself to CHAT?

I wanted to rant about my woe, not discuss poetry (as Natalie :love:

pointed out). That being the case, I thought it best not to post in an "official" forum where no doubt someone would have said something along the lines of: "Stop ranting about your woe", and confine myself to the safety of chat where I can say whatever the hell I want without people getting on their high-horse about it.
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~MOi~

am i lucky not to know him? :p: