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Cheers, i'm still not quite sure how it came out as number 1. Needless to say I count myself as very fortunate. It's on page 2 of this thread if you're keen for a read..

well this is a bit weird.. but yeah i did haha

yeah lol

trust me there's no need to give up on it just yet ;) wait for the 21st/22nd

^ surely if you can recognise that your idea is unoriginal then you can work out what is. It sounds like you don't really want to put in the work that you know you need to do. It's important to remember that EE2 is not just a writing course.. well it is but even that requires alot of research...

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There was something sort of similar in showcase a few years ago, it was like the poet going through different stages of a life poem by poem.. IMO most of the things people are writing about in their HSC are cliched in one way or another. So it's not really fair to shoot down concepts this early...

Everything is 5 seconds of common sense. We do learn "language theory" it's just very narrow. This isn't really that bad though. Like how to you people discussing postmodernism was wanky, equally delving into other major literary movements would seem just as pretentious. As far as English...

The week after Dec 21 is what the Board's website has to say.

The problem is that HSC English is not all about appreciating literature or making fair arguments. As everyone has to do it, it should be relevant to everyone. Even though I agree that most of the texts we do are strip mined and compacted into prepared essay form I think that this in itself...

Just to play devils advocate clifford, although getting a reading close to the composer's intention is an admirable goal, i'd argue that reading is necessarily a form of translation. Between writing and reception a text gets broken entirely into its consituent parts (each letter) and then...

If you look at the older exams they were considerably harder. Considering the relative difficulties i think it's more likely it'd be 40s this year.

Hey juice. I think everyone goes into ext2 poetry with rather limited experience. The extent to which poetry gets covered in high school is pretty abysmal really, even in extension. So this is probably one of the best ways for you to learn. I know it's the reason I did x2. The best thing you...

sounds like the exam went pretty alright for you. I'm just wasting time getting ready for tomorrow's haha. Tackling the more abstract ideas on concretism is probably beyond the average hsc student anyway. So i'd say the comments I heard were likely intended to disuade people from copying...

^ getting a teacher to read your work regularly is a really good idea. It forces you to think way more critically about what you've done. The little insecurities you have about whatever you've written get amplified by the pressure of having someone else read it and this can help you heaps in...

hows it going man? how're ur exams looking? Yeah i've seen a few past showcasers that used shape poetry. The girl that used to be on these forums that got in a couple of years ago did it pretty extensively in her Sylvia Plath thing. I guess i'm just curious as to whether the markers...

Beginning of this year I went to an EE2 day where we spoke to a head marker blah blah etc. Basically were told to avoid concrete poetry as it was a "lower order" skill. I was never planning on using concretism as I thought that it was just synonymous with the cliched real shape poem. However...

You should only continue with poetry if you're really interested in the poetry itself. If it becomes an emotional vent for you it will most likely deteriorate the focus with which you are writing. Sentimentality can be chanelled in your poetry to make a point but if it becomes the main theme...

sorry for a late reply but have been kinda busy working. Anyway to elaborate for you I have no issue with the fragmentation and widely accepted tropes considered "postmodern" as you sort of touched on before. However I think considering pomo as an all encompassing description of current...

hopelessness in the sense that pomo is the supposed end of literary invention. My perspective on pomo is rather heavily influenced by my interests in poetry (esp experimental poetics) though. Foreseeably for some it's not 'hopeless' but the idea that we've come to the "end of creativity" is at...