Leaving Cert Poetry 2017

Página 1

Bishop, Elizabeth

The Fish

The Bight

At the Fishhouses

The Prodigal

Questions of Travel

The Armadillo

Sestina

First Death in Nova Scotia

Filling Station

In the Waiting Room

Elizabeth Bishop

First Death in Nova Scotia

The Bight - Elizabth Bishop

Página 2

Boland, Eavan

The War Horse

Child of Our Time

The Famine Road

The Shadow Doll

White Hawthorn in the West of Ireland

Outside History

The Black Lace Fan my Mother Gave Me

This Moment

The Pomegranate

Love

The Poetry of Eavan Boland

Página 3

Donne, John

The Sunne Rising

Song: Go, and catch a falling star

The Anniversarie

Song: Sweetest love, I do not goe

The Dreame (Deare love, for nothing less than thee…)

A Valediction Forbidding Mourning

The Flea

Batter my heart

At the round earth’s imagined corners

Thou hast made me

The Flea - John Donne

Batter My Heart- John Donne

Donne - FORM / STRUCTURE / CONTEXT / CRITICAL INTERPRETATIONS

Página 4

Durcan, Paul

Nessa

The Girl with the Keys to Pearse’s Cottage

The Difficulty that is Marriage

Wife Who Smashed Television Gets Jail

Parents

En Famille, 1979

Madman

“Windfall”, 8 Parnell Hill, Cork

Six Nuns Die in Convent Inferno

Sport

Father’s Day, 21 June 1992

The Arnolfini Marriage

Ireland 2002

Rosie Joyce

The MacBride Dynasty

Paul Durcan

Página 5

Eliot

The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock

Preludes

Aunt Helen from The Waste Land II.

A Game of Chess

Journey of the Magi from Landscapes

III Usk

IV Rannoch, by Glencoe from The Four Quartets East Coker IV

T.S. Eliot

TS Elliot

The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock

Aunt helen

Página 6

Hopkins, Gerard Manley

God’s Grandeur

Spring

As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame

The Windhover

Pied Beauty

Felix Randal

Inversnaid

I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day

No worst there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief

Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend

Pied Beauty - Gerald Manley Hopkins

Página 7

Keats

Página 8

Plath