John Donne essay (1 Viewer)

[angeleyez]

I thought it was really crap in critical study how they specified 'The Sunne Rising' to discuss in the conversation. Even though i was prepared for it, what about those who weren't. Our teachers told us to learn all of John Donne's poems. ITS ALREADY BAD ENOUGH MEMORISING THREE ESSAYS FOR PAPER 2 let alone learning all of Donne's poems and what the critics think of them!!!!

That SUCKS!

 

[kini mini]

I agree that it's unreasonable to specify a poem, even one like "Sunne Rising" which I'm sure a lot of people did know. I understand that the syllabus does specify that we should know all 7, but to know all in that much detail is unfeasible.

Perhaps it was designed to separate the candidature - though IMO they should have asked for a comparison of ANY religious poem with ANY love poem (for example) if they wanted to do that.

 

[user]

at least they didn't ask for Good Friday 1613, Riding Westward

I wasn't really prepared for the sunne rising, I knew every poem except for the sunne rising because i thought that was the easiest one and I didn;t think they'd go and ask for the easiest one.

Well I was wrong.

But it's an easy poem to write crap about. Easy to remember bits and pieces of it.

 

[Minai]

yeah
It was better they asked sunne rising rather than hymne or 1613 cos thats too hard to jus make crap up about
u really need to be immersed in those poems, which i couldnt b bothered to do

 

[utopian731]

ONe of my friends was a bit shitty because i assured him that itwas extremely unlikely that they would specify a poem - hehehe, you know with sylvia plath being asked in the same question

oh welll

i agree with everyone with friday 1613, what a pain in the ass poem, as well as hymn to my god

i dunno about you guys, but donne struck me as a repulsive smartass, i dont care how clever his poetry is....

 

[kini mini]

Originally posted by utopian731

i agree with everyone with friday 1613, what a pain in the ass poem, as well as hymn to my god

i dunno about you guys, but donne struck me as a repulsive smartass, i dont care how clever his poetry is....

You must have used Samuel Johnson then hehe

I'm glad GF:1613 wasn't there, hymn to g my g would have been good though, I was prepared for that.