Leaving Cert English - Prescribed Material 2014
Poetry

When it comes to poetry, there is quite a difference between the Honours and Ordinary level questions. The entire poem is published at Ordinary Level but not at Higher Level.
Higher Level
***Eight poets must be studied***
*** You must study at least six poems from each poet***
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
DICKINSON, Emily
“Hope” is the thing with feathers
There’s a certain Slant of light
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain
A Bird came down the Walk
I Heard a fly buzz – when I died
The Soul has Bandaged moments
I could bring You Jewels – had I a mind to
A narrow Fellow in the Grass
I taste a liquor never brewed
After great pain, a formal feeling comes
HEANEY, Seamus
The Forge
Bogland
The Tollund Man
Mossbawn: Two Poems in Dedication (1) Sunlight
A Constable Calls
The Skunk
The Harvest Bow
The Underground
Postscript
A Call
Tate’s Avenue
The Pitchfork
Lightenings viii. (The annals say...)
KINSELLA, Thomas
Thinking of Mr D.
Dick King
Mirror in February
Chrysalides
from Glenmacnass VI Littlebody
Tear
Hen Woman
His Father’s Hands from Settings Model School, Inchicore
from The Familiar VII
from Belief and Unbelief Echo
LARKIN, Philip
Wedding-Wind
At Grass
Church Going
An Arundel Tomb
The Whitsun Weddings
MCMXIV
Ambulances
The Trees
The Explosion
Cut Grass
MAHON, Derek
Grandfather
Day Trip to Donegal
Ecclesiastes
After the Titanic
As It Should Be
A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford
Rathlin
The Chinese Restaurant in Portrush
Kinsale
Antarctica
PLATH, Sylvia
Black Rook in Rainy Weather
The Times Are Tidy
Morning Song
Finisterre
Mirror
Pheasant
Elm
Poppies in July
The Arrival of the Bee Box
Child
YEATS, William Butler
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
September 1913
The Wild Swans at Coole
An Irish Airman Foresees his Death
Easter 1916
The Second Coming
Sailing to Byzantium
from Meditations in Time of Civil War:
VI, The Stare’s Nest by My Window
In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markiewicz
Swift’s Epitaph
An Acre of Grass from Under Ben Bulben: V and VI
Politics
________________________________________________________
Ordinary Level
***The poems will be divided into two lists***
***One list of poems must be studied***
BEER, Patricia The Voice
BISHOP, Elizabeth The Fish
The Prodigal
Filling Station
DICKINSON, Emily I felt a Funeral, in my Brain
I heard a fly buzz — when I died
DUFFY, Carol Ann Valentine
GALLAGHER, Tess The Hug
HARDIE, Kerry Daniel's Duck
HEANEY, Seamus A Constable Calls
The Underground
A Call
HERBERT, George The Collar
KENNELLY, Brendan Night Drive
KINSELLA, Thomas Thinking of Mr. D
Mirror in February
LARKIN, Philip Ambulances
The Explosion
LOCHHEAD, Liz Kidspoem/ Bairnesang
MAHON, Derek Grandfather
After the Titanic
Antarctica
NEMEROV, Howard Wolves in the Zoo
O’CALLAGHAN, Julie The Net
PIERCY, Marge Will we work together?
PLATH, Sylvia Poppies in July
Child
The Arrival of the Bee Box
SHUTTLE, Penelope Zoo Morning
SIRR, Peter Madly Singing in the City
THOMAS, Dylan Do not go gentle into that good night
WHEATLEY, David Chronicle
WILLIAMS, William Carlos This is just to say...
WYLEY, Enda Poems for Breakfast
YEATS, William Butler The Wilde Swans at Coole
An Irish Airman Forsees his death
_______________________________________________________
Marking Scheme
1. Honours Level -
35% of Paper Two ***Unseen poem = 10% Prescribed poetry = 25%***
17.5% overall ***Unseen poem = 5% Prescribed poetry = 12.5%***
2. Ordinary Level -
35% of Paper Two ***Unseen poem = 10% Prescribed poetry = 25%***
17.5% overall ***Unseen poem = 5% Prescribed poetry = 12.5%***
Higher Level
***Eight poets must be studied***
*** You must study at least six poems from each poet***
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
DICKINSON, Emily
“Hope” is the thing with feathers
There’s a certain Slant of light
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain
A Bird came down the Walk
I Heard a fly buzz – when I died
The Soul has Bandaged moments
I could bring You Jewels – had I a mind to
A narrow Fellow in the Grass
I taste a liquor never brewed
After great pain, a formal feeling comes
HEANEY, Seamus
The Forge
Bogland
The Tollund Man
Mossbawn: Two Poems in Dedication (1) Sunlight
A Constable Calls
The Skunk
The Harvest Bow
The Underground
Postscript
A Call
Tate’s Avenue
The Pitchfork
Lightenings viii. (The annals say...)
KINSELLA, Thomas
Thinking of Mr D.
Dick King
Mirror in February
Chrysalides
from Glenmacnass VI Littlebody
Tear
Hen Woman
His Father’s Hands from Settings Model School, Inchicore
from The Familiar VII
from Belief and Unbelief Echo
LARKIN, Philip
Wedding-Wind
At Grass
Church Going
An Arundel Tomb
The Whitsun Weddings
MCMXIV
Ambulances
The Trees
The Explosion
Cut Grass
MAHON, Derek
Grandfather
Day Trip to Donegal
Ecclesiastes
After the Titanic
As It Should Be
A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford
Rathlin
The Chinese Restaurant in Portrush
Kinsale
Antarctica
PLATH, Sylvia
Black Rook in Rainy Weather
The Times Are Tidy
Morning Song
Finisterre
Mirror
Pheasant
Elm
Poppies in July
The Arrival of the Bee Box
Child
YEATS, William Butler
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
September 1913
The Wild Swans at Coole
An Irish Airman Foresees his Death
Easter 1916
The Second Coming
Sailing to Byzantium
from Meditations in Time of Civil War:
VI, The Stare’s Nest by My Window
In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markiewicz
Swift’s Epitaph
An Acre of Grass from Under Ben Bulben: V and VI
Politics
________________________________________________________
Ordinary Level
***The poems will be divided into two lists***
***One list of poems must be studied***
BEER, Patricia The Voice
BISHOP, Elizabeth The Fish
The Prodigal
Filling Station
DICKINSON, Emily I felt a Funeral, in my Brain
I heard a fly buzz — when I died
DUFFY, Carol Ann Valentine
GALLAGHER, Tess The Hug
HARDIE, Kerry Daniel's Duck
HEANEY, Seamus A Constable Calls
The Underground
A Call
HERBERT, George The Collar
KENNELLY, Brendan Night Drive
KINSELLA, Thomas Thinking of Mr. D
Mirror in February
LARKIN, Philip Ambulances
The Explosion
LOCHHEAD, Liz Kidspoem/ Bairnesang
MAHON, Derek Grandfather
After the Titanic
Antarctica
NEMEROV, Howard Wolves in the Zoo
O’CALLAGHAN, Julie The Net
PIERCY, Marge Will we work together?
PLATH, Sylvia Poppies in July
Child
The Arrival of the Bee Box
SHUTTLE, Penelope Zoo Morning
SIRR, Peter Madly Singing in the City
THOMAS, Dylan Do not go gentle into that good night
WHEATLEY, David Chronicle
WILLIAMS, William Carlos This is just to say...
WYLEY, Enda Poems for Breakfast
YEATS, William Butler The Wilde Swans at Coole
An Irish Airman Forsees his death
_______________________________________________________
Marking Scheme
1. Honours Level -
35% of Paper Two ***Unseen poem = 10% Prescribed poetry = 25%***
17.5% overall ***Unseen poem = 5% Prescribed poetry = 12.5%***
2. Ordinary Level -
35% of Paper Two ***Unseen poem = 10% Prescribed poetry = 25%***
17.5% overall ***Unseen poem = 5% Prescribed poetry = 12.5%***