Complete Guide: H1 Leaving Cert English 2028

 

The 2028 guide is for students who plan to graduate in 2028. If you are graduating in 2027, please use the Complete Guide: H1 Leaving Cert English Guide 2027.

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Contents:

Essentials
Paper I

Section I
Section II
Quotations in essays
Speech/Talk/The Language of Persuasion
Article / Opinion piece / Discursive Essay / Language of argument
Report/The language of information
Personal essay
Letter
– Letter to the Editor
– Personal letter
Descriptive essay
Short story

Paper II

Hamlet

The Great Gatsby

General guidance
Link words
Cultural Context
Theme or Issue
Literary Genre
Individual texts: introduction
Novel/Memoir
Silence of the Girls
Young Skins
Wuthering Heights
Room
Lessons in Chemistry
Small Things Like These
Notes from a Coma
Hamnet
1984
Where the Crawdads Sing
Elena Knows
Drama
A Raisin in the Sun
A Doll’s House
Sive
Colder than Here
Film
Barbie
Knives Out
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Diego Maradona
The Banshees of Inisherin

Unseen poetry

General guidance
Sample answer

Prescribed poetry

General guidance

Emily Dickinson

Introduction
Detailed analysis of each poem individually
“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
Sample essay: “Dickinson’s use of an innovative style to explore intense experiences can both intrigue and confuse.” Discuss this statement, supporting your answer with reference to the poetry of Emily Dickinson on your course.

John Donne

Introduction
Detailed analysis of each poem individually
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
Sample essay: “John Donne uses startling imagery and wit in his exploration of relationships.” Give your response to the poetry of John Donne in the light of this statement. Support your points with the aid of suitable reference to the poems you have studied.

Seamus Heaney

Introduction
Detailed analysis of each poem individually
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…)
Sample essay: “Heaney’s poetry explores ordinary life and people through language that is anything but ordinary.” Support your points with reference to the poetry on your course.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Introduction
Detailed analysis of each poem individually
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
Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend
Sample essay: “Hopkins’s innovative style displays his struggle with what he believes to be fundamental truths.” In your opinion, is this a fair assessment of his poetry? Support your answer with suitable reference to the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins on your course.

Paula Meehan

Introduction
Detailed analysis of each poem individually
Buying Winkles
The Pattern
The Statue of Virgin Mary at Granard Speaks
Cora, Auntie
The Exact Moment I Became a Poet
My Father Perceived as a Vision of St. Francis
Prayer for the Children of Longing
Death of a Field
Them Ducks Died for Ireland
Sample essay: “Meehan’s poetry communicates powerful feelings through thought-provoking images and symbols.” Write your response to this statement with reference to the poems by Paula Meehan on your course.

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin

Introduction
Detailed analysis of each poem individually
Lucina Schynning in Silence of the Nicht The Second Voyage
Deaths and Engines
Street
Fireman’s Lift
All for You
Following
Kilcash
Translation
The Bend in the Road
On Lacking the Killer Instinct
To Niall Woods and Xenya Ostrovskaia, married in Dublin on 9 September 2009
Sample essay: “Ní Chuilleanáin’s demanding subject matter and formidable style can prove challenging.” Discuss this statement, supporting your answer with reference to the poetry of Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin on your course.

Sylvia Plath

Introduction
Detailed analysis of each poem individually
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
Sample essay: “Plath makes effective use of language to explore her personal experiences of suffering and to provide occasional glimpses of the redemptive power of love.”Discuss this statement, supporting your answer with reference to both the themes and language found in the poetry of Sylvia Plath on your course.

W.B. Yeats

Introduction
Detailed analysis of each poem individually
The Wild Swans at Coole
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
Sailing to Byzantium
September 1913
An Irish Airman Foresees His Death
Easter 1916
Stare’s Nest by My Window
The Second Coming
In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markiewicz
Swift’s Epitaph
An Acre of Grass
from Under Ben Bulben: V and VI
Politics
Sample essay: “Yeats uses evocative language to create poetry that includes both personal reflection and public commentary.” Discuss this statement, supporting your answer with reference to both the themes and language found in the poetry of W. B. Yeats on your course.

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