English Coursework

[PESFan92]

Ok, I need some help on these poems im doing in English about Anthology.

I have done 1 essay on the poems but only got a C-. My teacher said

"You've picked good quotations, explained them well, what it suggests but you're finding it hard to compare to the others"

Basically i have to compare 4poems in each Paragraph. These are the 4 i chose:

Homecoming
Anne Hathaway
On My First Sonne
My Last Duchess.

I can't remember the quotations excatly but when i get the Anthology book i will find them out. But could anyone who done this at GCSE help me out on comparing all 4 poems. Thanks A Bunch.

[Keyser Soze]

Sure, kid. I'll do your homework for you.

[PESFan92]

I dont want no-one doing my coursework. Its just Anthology, i need help on. Comparing all 4 poems in 1 paragraph is hard. OK i got a C- but my GCSE target for English is a B. So a C- is no good.

[50!]

Posting the poems may be a start if anyone is generous enough to help you.

[Sully]

You have to look for recurring themes between the poems. I personally don't know any of those so if you actually said what each poem was about I'm sure I'd be able to offer more help.

[PESFan92]

Thanks.

im not roughly sure but i'll find out tomorrow

[Lorenzinho]

Post them up and we'll have a swatch.

This may infringe some sort of copyright so any posting of material is done at your own risk. Doubt it though, most of the poets concerned are probably all dead.

[Dundon's]

If you get any dice out of all of this it'll be the closest thing to a miracle I've ever seen in my life.

[Wan]

Well you should compare what moral values that all poems have.

[Sweey]

Compare uses of imagery and symbolism if applicable and the unique ways in which each poem explores either those or its version of a recurring theme between the texts.

Its been a good ten years since I did this so don't expect much more from me.

Originally Posted by PESFan92

I dont want no-one doing my coursework. Its just Anthology, i need help on. Comparing all 4 poems in 1 paragraph is hard. OK i got a C- but my GCSE target for English is a B. So a C- is no good.

Finding it a bit difficult to believe that you're being required to compare four poems in a single paragraph as that leaves you very little scope for analysis and interpretation.

[Jonny2J]

The emphasis placed on GCSEs and the like is quite ridiculous iyam.

[BarnDoor]

I distinctly remember those poem anthology books and our teacher picking the shittest ones out of it. There was some poem about South Africa being a shit hole and one about a Jamaican guy reading the news, written in a vernacular style. I'm not bullshitting, that's how wank it was.

[PESFan92]

Ok all the poems are Pre 1914.

Homecoming is about a little boy who had his yellow canary jacket trod on at school and when he got home his mum went mad at him so he snuck out and waiting by a pay phone.

Anne Hathaway is really sexual. its about memory on how she remembered her husband.

On my first Sonne is about a father's son who died and the father regrets loving him too much and says he will never love anything that much again.

On my Last Duchess is about a man who remembers his "Last" Wife by looking a painting of her. But we wants to marry the counts daughter.

Barn - Yeah the poems where "Half-Caste" and "Unrelated Incidents"

The question is this:

"Compare how imagery is used in Anne Hathaway by Carrol Ann Duffy, Homecoming by Simon Armitage and any two pre-1914 poems of your choice"

We have to pick 16 points 4 from each paragraph and then compare them.

[Nifty1Pound50]

You are doomed.

If I were you, I'd be happy with the C- and adjust your expectations for further education accordingly, instead of trying to stride for a level of achievement that you're never likely to, well, achieve.

[Sweey]

Carol Ann Duffy and Simon Armitage..now all the names come flooding back. William Blake, Thomas Hardy, Seamus Heaney, Ezequiel Lavezzi...oh wait, got carried away