#gcse english poetry

[origami-butterfly]

*I left out my four least favourites because there's 16 on the anthology, but those four were: Tissue (Imtiaz Dharker), The Charge of the Light Brigade (Alfred Tennyson), Poppies (Jane Weir), and War Photographer (Carol Ann Duffy) P&C students, I'm sorry if one of those is your favourites, but I picked my favourites based on first impressions, whereas with L&R I have personal experience with all of them.

Love and Relationships version of this poll

[musicalsiphonophore]

so. i had my english exam.

I FUCKING READ THE EXTRA TIME END TIME RATHER THAN MY CORRECT END TIME AND I THOUGHT I HAD 40 MINUTES BUT I HAD 5 MINUTES AND THEN THE INVIGILATOR SAID I HAD 5 MINUTES AND I FUCKING JUMPED OUT OF MY SEAT AND I SOMEHOW WROTE AN ENTIRE TWO QUESTIONS WITH A TOTAL FIVE (5) PARAGRAPHS IN THAT TIME AND WHEN THEY SAID PUT YOUR PENS DOWN I BURST INTO TEARS

FUCK MY LIFE

[radiopookie]

revising poetry for english lit paper 2 and pretending im some ancient wizard studying spells

[myheartsdesiredd]

girls when their english essay wasn’t marked high enough (they got a 6)

[joymode00]

Marge of The Light Brigade be like

"Homer to the right of them,

Bart to the left of them,

Maggie in front of them"

[lilacthebooklover]

it really annoys me how casual the invigilators are in exams. like today, i took an english lit paper. i was given 2 hours, fifteen minutes and a booklet with 13 pages to write on so i could answer four questions. 2 of those questions were worth 30 marks, 1 worth 24 marks, and the last worth 8 marks- so naturally, it took a lot of planning, and a lot of writing. i finished the booklet after answering the third question, so raised my hand to get someone's attention to be given more paper to write on. at this point, i had roughly 15 minutes left. it took 3 for someone to notice me, 30 seconds for them to walk over, a minute for them to get the paper, and another 30 secs back. i physically couldn't do anything to continue writing in the 5 minutes it took for them to get me another answer booklet, which i then had to re fill in with my details at the top. like this is?? my exam??? it's important?? they just do not give a single damn about the time limit hjhfkgkg

[florabellalove]

Aaaaaaa I never have to see an aqa poem again

Normally I love poetry but there’s only so much a girl can take

That was so nice but I don’t want to jinx it

I’m happy tho 😽🦢

[snowcapet]

i loooove writing poetry i love reading poetry. poetry ahhhh..... one thing i dont like that involves poetry is this new 'worlds and lives' anthology we have for gcse... i think id prefer power and conflict...

[habshihalwa]

charge of the light brigade ~ alfred tennyson

poem analysis

[an-theduckin]

Couldn't fit all 15 poems in this soo yeah ill make a part 2 of this. Also if u don't know what I'm talking about (if u don't live in the uk) please just ignore this poll and DONT vote in it cuz like. I don't want the results 2 be messed up

Part 2 here

[imaginingmoonlight]

How am I feeling about Lit paper 2

I’m cooked.

I’m going to be put on a lil pan and aggressively sautéed until I am a little cooked vegetable.

[origami-butterfly]

*I left out my three least favourites because there's 15 on the anthology, but those three were: Climbing my Grandfather (Andrew Waterhouses), Love's Philosophy (Percy Shelley) and Before You Were Mine (Carol Ann Duffy)

Power and Conflict version of this poll

[whokilleddaphne]

if ‘climbing my grandfather’ is the poem on the english lit exam, i am walking out

[kazbrekkerfast]

I am currently choosing my topic for my spoken language exam for GCSE English and I cannot decide help

[ciicobuff]

My vision fell, a void washed over me. i longed for it to return yet my begging was flawed, i couldn’t amend my deeds.

i felt my hands gravitate towards this being with an all encompassing force, my fingertips dwelling on the possibilities. yet they were placed, with such delicacy, such care. and they began to trace. i endured the texture before me, grasping in the details, what was its story? the ridges, the lines that passed through my senses seemed to scatter like the worn branches of a family tree, divulging me in the past present and future of what lies behind the surface. i yearned for the knowledge, i could sense the ageing skin like the rings inside a tree. every asperity clawing beneath my fingers leaving me with wonder, wonder of what kept them in accumulation, accompanying what led them to decay.

• start of a practise for english language p1 q5 heheheeee. praying for a good prompt🤗

[wweasleyhp]

English Lit Paper 2 was alright; I managed. The essay question for Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde was cruel, it was about death. There are only three characters that die in the entire novella! But I managed to write 4 paragraphs, I had to be creative so I wrote that Hyde almost killed that girl in Chapter 1. Poetry was beautiful, they gave us The Class Game which was brilliant because I used the context from Blood Brothers. Unseen poetry was alright but it wasn't bad. I think I got 60 out of 80. Overall, I'm predicting that for GCSE English Literature I'll get 122 out of 160 which is a grade 7 or 8. I'm not going to be done with English Lit yet though as I picked it for A Level. :)