The final examination paper will consist of two parts.
In the first part, you will be given some extracts from texts we have studied on the course, and asked simply to identify the author and the title of the text from which the extract is taken. Easy! (10 marks)
In the second part, you will be given a choice of questions. Some of these will ask for a critical reading of a longer extract or a complete poem; some will ask you to discuss a particular issue relating to the poetry we have studied. You should answer ONE of these questions with a short but well-structured essay. (30 marks)
PLEASE NOTE THAT YOU WILL NOT BE ALLOWED TO TAKE THE COURSE TEXTBOOK OR ANY OTHER PRINTED MATERIALS INTO THE EXAM WITH YOU.
Themes for revision
As well as making sure you are familiar with the poems we have studied, you may find it particularly advantageous to revise the following topic areas for part two of the exam:
- Differing Responses in Poetry to World War One
- T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land
- Modernist ideas of the self or subject
- Modernist ideas of the poet and her/his relation to the poem
- Modernism’s changing face, 1880 – 1940
- Poetry and Politics in the 1930s
Thanks for the links and videos, useful for the final exam.Especially the video about Auden is better for those who are good at audial learning like me! :) But I wish this time, exam questions will be more clear, because in the previous exam many of us had difficulty in understanding and spent like 20 min. in figuring out the questions :) I hope my wish will be taken to consideration..
ReplyDeleteI've looked over the exam paper again and tried to make the questions as short and clear as possible. Good luck!
ReplyDeletePatrick
bollocks... questions & revision topics have always been clear enough. I am sorry but if someone had hard time figuring out them, it is their lack of knowledge.
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