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Poetry Notes Leaving Cert 2024

Course Overview

An overview of each poet and sample questions

 
 

Tracy K Smith

Detailed Notes. This Handout will be updated soon.

 
 

Sample Essays

Essay writing approach updated Feb 11th

 
 
 
 

Eliot 25

Updated poetry notes for Leaving Cert 25.

 
 

Eliot Essay Writing

Updated handout on Eliot Essay Writing

 
 

Kavanagh 25

Updated poetry notes for Leaving Cert 25.

 
 
 

Kavanagh Essay Writing Technique

An overview of our critical thinking method.

 
 

Mahon 25

Updated poetry notes for Leaving Cert 25.

 

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Mahon Essay Writing Technique

An overview of our critical thinking method.

 
 

Boland 25

Updated poetry notes for Leaving Cert 25

 
 
 

Boland Essay Writing Technique

An overview of our critical thinking method.

 

Hopkins

 
 
 

PHILIP LARKIN

 
 
 
 

Heaney Notes

 
 

Heaney Critical Thinking

Essay Writing Technique Heaney

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Bishop Notes

 
 

Plath Notes

 
 
 

Plath Critical Thinking

 

Kavanagh Notes

 
 

Critical Thinking

 
 

Yeats Notes

This handout contains all the content information about the poems by William Butler Yeats we have studied and an analysis of their stylistic features. Should you need notes on any other poem on the course by Yeats, please let me know.

 
 

Yeats Critical Thinking


 
 

 

Emily Dickinson Notes

This handout contains all the content information on the poems by Emily Dickinson we have studied and an analysis of their stylistic features. Should you need notes on any other poem on the course by Dickinson, please let me know.


 
 

Emily Dickinson Critical Thinking

You should take great care to read this handout before you answer any poetry question. Follow the method outlined in the handout and please ask if there is any part of the 5 step approach that you don’t understand. When answering all future questions please number your paragraph’s steps according to the method outlined.

 
 
 
 
 
 
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Literary Terms

This handout is a dictionary of literary terms. You need to know these terms.They will appear in orange font in your handout. Your ability to use these correctly will form a core part of 5 step approach to writing a paragraph.

 
 
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Eavan Boland Notes

This handout contains all the content information on the poems by Adrienne Rich we are due to study in the last term an analysis of their stylistic feature. Should you need notes on any other poem on the course by Boland, please let me know. During week two of the shut down I intend to teach Boland in a series of video tutorials, which will be available on this site.


 
 
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Elizabeth Bishop Notes

Download this handout for colour coded references and examination tags and key quotes.



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Critical Literacy

Elizabeth Bishop Examination Technique


Unseen Poetry Notes

These notes contain the sample answers we worked on in class. Remember not all answers are complete.