Irish Leaving Certificate 2021 English (Higher and Ordinary) Poems Analyzed

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Higher Level – Irish Leaving Certification in English Poetry

A selection from the poetry of eight poets is prescribed for Higher Level. Students will be expected to have studied at least six poems by each poet.

Elizabeth Bishop

• 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

Eavan Boland

• 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

Paul Durcan

• Nessa
• The Girl with the Keys to Pearse’s Cottage
• The Difficulty that is Marriage
• Wife Who Smashed Television Gets Jail
• Parents
• En Famille, 1979
• Madman
• “Windfall”, 8 Parnell Hill, Cork
• Six Nuns Die in Convent Inferno (still analyzing)
• Sport
• Father’s Day, 21 June 1992
• The Arnolfini Marriage
• Ireland 2002
• Rosie Joyce
• The MacBride Dynasty

Robert Frost

• 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

Seamus Heaney

• 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…)

Gerard Manley Hopkins

• 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

John Keats

• To one who has been long in city pent
• Ode To A Nightingale
• On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer
• Ode On A Grecian Urn
• When I have fears that I may cease to be
• La Belle Dame Sans Merci
• To Autumn
• Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art

Sylvia Plath

• Black Rook in Rainy Weather
• The Times Are Tidy
• Morning Song
• Finisterre
• Mirror
• Pheasant (still analyzing)
• Elm
• Poppies in July
• The Arrival of the Bee Box
• Child

Ordinary Level – Irish Leaving Certification in English Poetry

A total of 36 poems is prescribed for Ordinary Level.

Elizabeth Bishop

• The Fish
• The Prodigal
• Filling Station

Eavan Boland

• Child of Our Time
• This Moment
• Love

Robert Browning

• Meeting at Night

Kate Clanchy

• Driving to the Hospital

Paul Durcan

• Wife Who Smashed Television Gets Jail
• Parents
• Sport

Robert Frost

• The Tuft of Flowers
• ‘Out, Out–̛

Thom Gunn

• Considering the Snail

Randolph Healy

• Frogs
• Primula Veris

Seamus Heaney

• A Constable Calls
• The Underground
• A Call

George Easter Herbert

• Easter Wings

Gerard Manley Hopkins

• Spring
• Inversnaid

Andrew Hudgins

• The Glass Hammer (still analyzing)

John Keats

• On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer
• La Belle Dame Sans Merci

Francis Ledwidge

• Lament for Thomas MacDonagh

Richard Murphy

• Moonshine

Julie O’Callaghan

• The Net
• Problems (still analyzing)

Mary O’Malley

• Caoineadh Mháire (still analyzing)

Sylvia Plath

• Poppies in July (still analyzing)
• Child (still analyzing)

Percy Bysshe Shelley

• Ozymandias

Penelope Shuttle

• Jungian Cows

Gary Soto

• Oranges

David Wheatley

• Chronicle (still analyzing)