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Tuesday, November 9, 2010


o.O english was interesting. at first sight the poem was ...omg. i guess it's one of those highly metaphorical ones, maybe close to hurricane hits england. there was actually quite a bit to talk about, on second glance- the anthropomorphic personification of the mountains and moon (maybe pathetic fallacy?) and the good deal of nature imagery that pervaded the poem. then again i failed to come up with an interpretation for it- though the last stanza pretty much represents death, i'm sure. maybe the poem's a metaphor for life- you could kinda trace how there're shifts in time (yeah, guiding question ftw!) from dawn to eventide (eventide sounds so much cooler than evening huh!). other than that...lightning smashing a rainbow kinda threw me off from the very start.

so yes, prose. i found it very literal- that this was a passage where you couldn't fish out literary devices and discuss them, i think you had to be very sensitive to the nuances and undertones embedded in there. the guiding questions did help a bit. i ended up talking about the setting, mood, atmosphere, interplay of reactions and attitudes, the evolution of the reader's impression of the rocks (and a weak attempt to connect that to the thematic idea of memories and their importance to some) and the shift in atmosphere in the last paragraph. i could be all wrong for all i know. whee but i think that was a lot more fun than other prose pieces we've practised before (; like the may 2005 one i practised, that one was way too obvious. okay come to think of it, this exam wasn't very easy; especially poem became pretty much a non-choice for many of us. i heard the HL exam was no better- one top student (who got 25/25 for some mid year p1 exam...) admitted it was the hardest so far.

paper 22222 :/ it should be open book, jim's quotes are unpossible to memorize. worried worried worried

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