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