LEAVING CERTIFICATE ENGLISH – POETRY 2011 – 2014
Poets for 2011 – 2014
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Bishop
Boland
Dickinson
Frost
Hopkins
Kavanagh
Kinsella
Heaney
Larkin
Mahon
Plath
Rich
Shakespeare
Wordsworth
Yeats
Poets prescribed for Higher Level, to be examined in the
following years
2011
2012
2013
2014
Boland
Boland
Bishop
Bishop
Dickinson
Frost
Hopkins
Dickinson
Frost
Heaney
Kinsella
Heaney
Hopkins
Kavanagh
Mahon
Kinsella
Kavanagh
Kinsella
Plath
Larkin
Rich
Larkin
Rich
Mahon
Wordsworth
Plath
Shakespeare
Plath
Yeats
Rich
Wordsworth
Yeats
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Poetry 2011 - 2014
Poets [Higher Level]
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
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
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
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FROST, Robert
The Tuft of Flowers
Mending Wall
After Apple-Picking
The Road Not Taken
Birches
‘Out, Out-’
Spring Pools
Acquainted with the Night
Design
Provide, Provide
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…)
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
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KAVANAGH, Patrick
Inniskeen Road: July Evening
Shancoduff
from The Great Hunger Section I
Advent
A Christmas Childhood
Epic
Canal Bank Walk
Lines Written on a Seat on the Grand Canal
The Hospital
On Raglan Road
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
4
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
RICH, Adrienne
Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers
Uncle Speaks in the Drawing Room
Power
Storm Warnings
Living in Sin
The Roofwalker
Our Whole Life
Trying to Talk with a Man
Diving Into the Wreck
From a Survivor
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SHAKESPEARE, William
Sonnet XII
When I do count the clock
Sonnet XVII Shall I compare thee
Sonnet XXII As an unperfect actor
Sonnet XXIX When in disgrace with fortune
Sonnet XXX When to the sessions
Sonnet LX
Like as the waves
Sonnet LXV Since brass, nor stone, nor earth
Sonnet LXVI Tired with all these
Sonnet LXXIII That time of year
Sonnet XCIV They that have the power to hurt
Sonnet CXVI Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Fear no more the heat of the sun
WORDSWORTH, William
To My Sister
A slumber did my spirit seal
She dwelt among the untrodden ways
Composed upon Westminster Bridge
It is a beauteous evening, calm and free
The Solitary Reaper
from The Prelude:
The Stolen Boat [ll357-400]
Skating [ll425-463]
Lines Composed… above Tintern Abbey
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
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Poetry prescribed for Ordinary Level, to be examined in the following
years:
2011
ADCOCK, Fleur
For Heidi with Blue Hair
ARMITAGE, Simon
It Ain’t What You Do…
AUDEN, W.H.
Funeral Blues
BOLAND, Eavan
Child of Our Time
This Moment
Love
DICKINSON, Emily
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain
I Heard a fly buzz – when I died
DUFFY, Carol Ann
Valentine
DURCAN, Paul
Going Home to Mayo…
FROST, Robert
The Tuft of Flowers
Mending Wall
‘Out, Out –’
HARDIE, Kerry
Daniel’s Duck
HERBERT, George
The Collar
HOPKINS, Gerard Manley
Spring
Inversnaid
KAVANAGH, Patrick
Shancoduff
A Christmas Childhood
KENNELLY, Brendan
A Glimpse of Starlings
LEVERTOV, Denise
What Were They Like
MONAGHAN, Noel
All Day Long
MORGAN, Edwin
Strawberries
MULDOON, Paul
Anseo
MURPHY, Richard
Moonshine
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O’CALLAGHAN, Julie
The Net
RICH, Adrienne
Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers
Uncle Speaks in the Drawing Room
Trying to Talk with a Man
SHUTTLE, Penelope
Jungian Cows
WORDSWORTH, William
She dwelt among the untrodden ways
It is a beauteous evening, calm and free
From The Prelude:
Skating [ll 425-463]
YEATS, William Butler
The Wild Swans at Coole
An Irish Airman Foresees his Death
WILBUR, Richard
The Writer
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2012
ANGELOU, Maya
Phenomenal Woman
BOLAND, Eavan
Child of Our Time
This Moment
Love
DURCAN, Paul
Going Home to Mayo…
FROST, Robert
The Tuft of Flowers
Mending Wall
‘Out, Out –’
HARDIE, Kerry
Daniel’s Duck
HARDY, Thomas
When I Set Out for Lyonnesse
HEANEY, Seamus
A Constable Calls
The Underground
A Call
KAVANAGH, Patrick
Shancoduff
A Christmas Childhood
KENNELLY, Brendan
A Glimpse of Starlings
KINSELLA, Thomas
Thinking of Mr D.
Mirror in February
LARKIN, Philip
Ambulances
The Explosion
LEVERTOV, Denise
What Were They Like
MCGOUGH, Roger
Bearhugs
MACNEICE, Louis
Meeting Point
MONAGHAN, Noel
All Day Long
MULDOON, Paul
Anseo
MURPHY, Richard
Moonshine
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OLIVER, Mary
The Sun
PLATH, Sylvia
Poppies in July
Child
RICH, Adrienne
Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers
Uncle Speaks in the Drawing Room
Trying to Talk with a Man
SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe
Ozymandias
SHUTTLE, Penelope
Jungian Cows
STAFFORD, William
Travelling Through the Dark
WILBUR, Richard
A Summer Morning
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2013
ADCOCK, Fleur
For Heidi with Blue Hair
BISHOP, Elizabeth
The Fish
The Prodigal
Filling Station
GALLAGHER, Tess
The Hug
HARDIE, Kerry
Daniel’s Duck
HOPKINS, Gerard Manley
Spring
Inversnaid
KENNELLY, Brendan
Night Drive
KINSELLA, Thomas
Thinking of Mr D.
Mirror in February
MAHON, Derek
Grandfather
After the Titanic
Antarctica
LONGLEY, Michael
Badger
MILTON, John
When I consider how my light is spent
MULDOON, Paul
Anseo
O’CALLAGHAN, Julie
Problems
OLIVER, Mary
The Sun
PIERCY, Marge
Will we work together?
PLATH, Sylvia
Poppies in July
Child
The Arrival of the Bee Box
RICH, Adrienne
Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers
Uncle Speaks in the Drawing Room
SHUTTLE, Penelope
Jungian Cows
SIRR, Peter
Madly Singing in the City
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STAFFORD, William
Travelling Through the Dark
THOMAS, Dylan
Do not go gentle into that good night
WHEATLEY, David
Chronicle
WILBUR, Richard
A Summer Morning
WORDSWORTH, William
She dwelt among the untrodden ways
It is a beauteous evening, calm and free
From The Prelude:
Skating [ll 425-463]
SHAKESPEARE, William
Sonnet XVII Shall I compare thee
Sonnet LX
Like as the waves
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2014
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
HERBERT, George
The Collar
MAHON, Derek
Grandfather
After the Titanic
Antarctica
GALLAGHER, Tess
The Hug
HARDIE, Kerry
Daniel’s Duck
HEANEY, Seamus
A Constable Calls
The Underground
A Call
KENNELLY, Brendan
Night Drive
KINSELLA, Thomas
Thinking of Mr D.
Mirror in February
LARKIN, Philip
Ambulances
The Explosion
LOCHHEAD, Liz
Kidspoem/Bairnsang
NEMEROV, Howard
Wolves in the Zoo
O’CALLAGHAN, Julie
The Net
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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 Wild Swans at Coole
An Irish Airman Foresees his Death
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