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Post by princess666anne on Mar 2, 2008 16:20:48 GMT 1
Ok, I don't know if there is already a thread for this kind of stuff, I got to the third page and gave up looking.
I thought that since quite a lot of us are doing GCSEs or have already done them, we could give each other a little help with coursework/homework?
I was given an English essay to write on Friday and it has to be in on Monday. I really am stuck, the question is "Compare and contrast how the poets use language & structure to create memorable characters."
We have to write about 4 poems, 2 of which I have never seen before in my life. One of those is quite easy for me to understand, but the poem "My Last Dutchess" by Robert Browning is really confusing me.
Can anyone help?
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Post by tokiohoteluk on Mar 2, 2008 17:14:26 GMT 1
Wish I could help you, but I suck at poetry! Wiki brings up a summary of the poem, but that's about it. I suppose the language part would be looking at how they're describing characters in the poems. So maybe look a few stand out words that create the characters. Structure...it depends on how the poems are written. My Last Dutchess is interesting because he describes a painting of her to describe the character of the Dutchess. He uses quite colourful language by describing her personality rather than her appearance. He describes other men's affections for her and her smiling not only for him, her husband, but other men. Which is probably a euphemism for her liking the other men.
Urgh, poetry is quite dry. I find it very difficult to enjoy.
Claire
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Post by princess666anne on Mar 2, 2008 17:33:36 GMT 1
Yeah, I don't have uch of a liking for poets, I prefer to read stories. THANK YOU CLAIRE You have helped me soooooooooooooooooo much, you really are a godsend  |
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Post by Aneiraaa ~ on Mar 2, 2008 17:34:09 GMT 1
Sorry I can't help i got 9/20 on my compare and contrast poetry =[ but then i re-did it and got 13  lol just make sure you compare and contrast all the way through and dont do a paragraph for each poem  |
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Post by princess666anne on Mar 2, 2008 17:40:39 GMT 1
That's what I usually do, but I'm finding it really hard since I don't have a full understanding of all of the poems. BUT Claire has helped me a fair bit, so I'm going to try and make it look like I understand, and then when I hand it in, I'm going to ask my teacher if she can go over the poems at break with me Because then she will know I tried y best and I won't get wrong if it's poo and I'll be able to do it again and it will be great Well, that's the plan anyway haha |
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Post by tokiohoteluk on Mar 2, 2008 17:44:01 GMT 1
Yeah, I don't have uch of a liking for poets, I prefer to read stories. THANK YOU CLAIRE You have helped me soooooooooooooooooo much, you really are a godsend You're welcome! I don't know how much that helped, but it's always worth getting someone else's interpretation for poetry. ;D Now, if anyone needs help with novels, history, politics, I could probably be of more use. I find it interesting what people are studying. I would love to sit a GSCE now. I know you probably all think I'm mad, but I wonder what I've retained in 12 years after cramming like mental at the time. Probably nothing. Haha. Claire |
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Post by princess666anne on Mar 2, 2008 17:58:41 GMT 1
It helped loads. Our English teacher has an obsession with sex, so when we read any poem in class, she will explain phrases from the poem as being inuendos. We read soething about a girl who dreamed of superman, and our teacher told us it means the girl had a crush on her uncle and was having a sexual awakening in comparing him to superman. This may well be true, but still, if you were in one of my English lessons, you would see that my teacher has a sex obsession.
Sorry, that was quite a ramble, and was somewhat off topic. I'll just go write my essay. hehe
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Post by Aneiraaa ~ on Mar 2, 2008 18:04:26 GMT 1
OMGGG
MINE DOES TOOOOO
we had to write about two sex poems last year.... and then this year we had to discuss them!!
i mean WHATS THE OBSESSION??? lol
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Post by princess666anne on Mar 2, 2008 18:17:16 GMT 1
Haha maybe it's because we are teenagers so they know our mind suddenly becomes alert at the ention of sex So they do it to make us concentrate |
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Post by Aneiraaa ~ on Mar 2, 2008 18:21:30 GMT 1
probably haha
Hows it going?
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Post by Aerrow [: on Mar 2, 2008 18:23:45 GMT 1
we didnt have to do this  so there really is no point in me trying to help unless it's in the Anthology then that way i can help am good at poetry or so my teacher says... |
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Post by Romana on Mar 2, 2008 18:28:20 GMT 1
I'm annoyed at the moment.
My school is a school thats for the mostly over average kids, an i got in by my cleverness muahaha.
But the part that sucks is that we have to do our enlish an science mocks a year early, so instead of doing them in year nine we do them in year eight.
So yeah life sucks...*sniffle*
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Post by Aerrow [: on Mar 2, 2008 18:32:47 GMT 1
thats well gay! why are they making you do your mocks early? i didnt do mine till year 10! thats a loada crap
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Post by princess666anne on Mar 2, 2008 18:42:05 GMT 1
Yeah, it's in the Anthology! 'In Section 2! In the pre-1914 bit I hate this Anthology, it's so mean haha |
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Post by B.eckii ♥ on Mar 2, 2008 18:43:12 GMT 1
If anyone has problems with Drama coursework concering The Crucible I'm here to help. I got a C in drama [:
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lol
so there really is no point in me trying to help
