Thursday, 22 March 2012
Wednesday, 21 March 2012
Heaney interview 2012
Click on the image to hear Seamus Heaney discuss his poetry at a recent interview on RTE Radio One.
Friday, 3 February 2012
Thursday, 26 January 2012
Extra revision notes
The NCI have notes on both papers : http://www.ncirl.ie/Events/FREE_Leaving_Cert._English_Revision_Sessions
Tuesday, 24 January 2012
Monday, 23 January 2012
Coquelicots en juillet!
Poppies In July
Little poppies, little hell flames,
Do you do no harm?
You flicker. I cannot touch you.
I put my hands among the flames. Nothing burns
And it exhausts me to watch you
Flickering like that, wrinkly and clear red, like the skin of a mouth.
A mouth just bloodied.
Little bloody skirts!
There are fumes I cannot touch.
Where are your opiates, your nauseous capsules?
If I could bleed, or sleep! -
If my mouth could marry a hurt like that!
Or your liquors seep to me, in this glass capsule,
Dulling and stilling.
But colorless. Colorless.
Do you do no harm?
You flicker. I cannot touch you.
I put my hands among the flames. Nothing burns
And it exhausts me to watch you
Flickering like that, wrinkly and clear red, like the skin of a mouth.
A mouth just bloodied.
Little bloody skirts!
There are fumes I cannot touch.
Where are your opiates, your nauseous capsules?
If I could bleed, or sleep! -
If my mouth could marry a hurt like that!
Or your liquors seep to me, in this glass capsule,
Dulling and stilling.
But colorless. Colorless.
Sylvia Plath
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