Romanticism, people!

[alex.leon]

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How'd you think it went?

Thought essay question was so-so. Pretty simple, kinda just sounded like the syllabus regurgitated which is exactly what i wanted. Had quite a tenuous link to Wuthering Heights...but meh.

Creative writing stimulus was heaps gothic-y, which suited my prepared fantastically...except I had to change it to be more about nature.

Overall and alright-ish exam!

My teacher said they wouldn't ask about nature because it's too convoluted/shallow. Epic fail BOS.

[sims2lover]

i thought it was a good question.

the essay was so open and it was pretty easy to write about. wrote about 21 pages lol

the story was a bit harder
i prepared a gothic story - which i used but mentioned heaps about nature and stuff. wrote about 14 pages



hope everyone went well

[Audolphus]

I thought that it was alright, the essay question I thought might have been a little easier, having to relate human experience to imagination was tedius.

And for the creative I wrote about someone who had been paralysed and were dreaming about walking in nature again, it fitted well with what I was looking at writing about.

What were everyones texts that they used as well, I used Pandaemonium and Beethovens 3rd Symphony

[M.T.T.]

The concept of "imagination" hardly comes up in my notes on Romanticism. Fuck the essay question.


Creative question was a lot better.

[harryc]

I seriously loved it. I mean, that said I have no idea how I went, but I reckon I did pretty good. Got 14 pages out of it, and 8 out of creative, so yeah. I've been building my essays around imagination lately, so I pretty much lucked out with the question.

[MzBiiBii]

I liked essay more than creative, most of my texts fit well under imagination

[alex.leon]

Originally Posted by M.T.T.

The concept of "imagination" hardly comes up in my notes on Romanticism. Fuck the essay question.


Creative question was a lot better.

Neither, I was mostly all individualism/idealism, but just before the exam I crammed a whole lot of imagination analysis.

Neither of my two selected prescribed really related to the imagination- Possession and Wuthering Heights, which was kinda terrible. I wrote a pretty amazing introduction though (here's hoping that will give me a few solid marks..!)

My creative was about a seance. It had some deep moral meaning that had to do with nature, some wanky thing that the BOS will lap up, I'm sure.

Also, I used 'The Little Black Boy' by William Blake, and 'The Social Contract' by Rousseau- which is definitively NOT an imaginative work..try relating that to the imagination = biggest mission

[atal.love]

oh, the paper was a blessing.
my essay thesis was on the power and control of imagination over human experience,
so I was dancing during the reading time.
prescribed were Coleridge/Austen and related Wordsworth poetry/Friedrich painting.
similarly with my creative, it wasn't that hard to adapt, just a few sentences here and there to shift the focus to the natural world.
i've never been happier with extension 1 in my life.

[Arix]

I felt preeety good about- the essay question was basically the same as our trial question YAY....but then again whenever I feel good about an exam I don't go so well :s so who knows....

I reckon Romantism is by far the best topic, 'after the bomb'..I mean seriously? really? I'd much prefer being a hippy and blabbing about the natural environment..

[ryder2106]

I was actually really happy with the exam, considering the amount of study I put into it.
I did Coleridge and Austen, related texts were Heinrich Heine's poem Auf Flügeln des Gesanges and Jane Eyre the film.
I did 11 pages on essay and 8 on creative, not too bad. Essay question was sooo basic, really easy I thought. Creative didn't really match my prepared story, but it was a good stimulus so it just flowed right outta me, I actually kinda didn't want the exam to end! =S

[kat.kazokas]

Originally Posted by M.T.T.

The concept of "imagination" hardly comes up in my notes on Romanticism. Fuck the essay question.


Creative question was a lot better.

That's horrible..It was shoved into our brains every lesson and in every assessment task. Didn't you read the rubric?

[catherinet]

The essay Q was almost identical to the one on the catholic trial

[dave91]

If you did wuthering heights as your prescribed then you would have struggled with this question, i suspect, since it focuses alot more on physcial and emotional taming/liberation

though i dont know a huge amount about it...we did a grand total of two lessons (80 mins) on the book =P
i had a feeling the imagination would be the focus this year so i used the keats and coleridge poetry as my prescribeds, then a friedrich painting and Jane Campion's film The Piano. The latter is quite similar in style and themes to wuthering heights, but because there is so much focus on a piano, hence music, hence imagination i got away with it =)

[danal353]

essay question was okay. LOVED the creative question -and the stimulus was pretty much made for my creative

[smelnizzle]

Originally Posted by alex.leon

Neither, I was mostly all individualism/idealism

+1
north anger abbey would have been ideal to talk about in regards to imagination - but we focused more on wuthering heights and keats.. i hated north anger abbey! D:

the question was alright - i just tried to slip in imagination, therefore the mind, therefore, individualism, therefore idealism as much as i could

and the whole experience thing was good - we spent a year talking about Immanuel Kant and how he maintained we dont know the world through experience BLAH BLAH!

so.. handy!