English Literature SL Paper 1

[JohnSmith]

A) Does anyone even do Lit SL? I feel like everyone takes Lang and Lit SL...

B) How did you find paper 1? Poem or prose? What were your analyses?

[Bennyboii]

I did the SL Lit TZ2 paper =] I did the poem as I had no idea what the prose was all about.

I thought that the poet was portray tourists to be rather a self centered person but also just the average type of person because of how it ended. For the humour part i mentioned the rhetorical questions and the dress sense of the tribe and how it made the reader imagine the situation and as I had no idea what a knickerbocker was I assumed it was a type of funny clothing thus adding humour allowing us to relate to the poets experience. I aslo mentioned how it was a stream of conciousness letting us know its the poets own experience =]

[TykeDragon]

I heard that hill tribes lived in hills. Who knew?

[Bennyboii]

i know shocking

[silver*linings]

I heard that hill tribes lived in hills. Who knew?

Indeed. Tbh that was the main thing I wrote about with regards to the "humour" question, it's so hard when you're in that environment to think what makes something funny!!!

Did you guys go into context at all? I started rambling on about the fall of the USSR and capitalism/commercialism reflected in the tourist experience, might have gone a bit off topic...

[Queens&Lionheart]

I did the poem of TZ1, which was quite an easy one actually Guiding questions didn't help at all

[jakubakakuba]

Did anyone here get the prose about WWI and WWII? If so, what points did you make?

Edit: Pretty sure it was TZ2.

Edited May 6, 2013 by jakubakakuba

[Sarah Kate Graves]

I had TZ2 and did the World War prose main argument was that it was mainly in a traditional style for a historical piece of writing, but contained some figurative techniques, especially the quote 'A child's shoe in the polish dust'. Also looked at sentence structure and how cyclical it was with short at start and end, but longer in the middle. Cyclical notion represents life, especially those which were lost. Plus went and looked at a few other figurative techniques am interested to see how everyone else took it

[Hens48]

I did the war prose too. I think I had quite a different interpretation.

I talked about how the imagery of the child's shoe and pulverized bone manipulates the reader emotionally while the author ensured all the blame was directed to Hitler, even when the German cities were bombed. There were also some interesting juxtapositions and I thought the use of quotes were interesting in how they showed the different attitudes of the people making them, Hitler about vengeance and the farmer about respect which again manipulated the reader against Hitler.

Hopefully it was good enough to make up for a dire P2 performance...

[Sarah Kate Graves]

See I took a different interpretation of the writer's attitude. I thought, instead of blaming Hitler, it was the issues of World War One that caused World War 2, but then I guess that's what lit is all about, everyone sees thing differently