4th Year Poems Context

Question 1

Afternoons

Answer 1

Phillip Larkin
Larkin often based his poems on everyday situations and observations, often of the lives of stranger
Life in Britain in the late 50s/early 60s was undergoing great changes.
Post WW2 life

Question 2

Death of a naturalist

Answer 2

Seamus Heaney
Written in Ireland in the 1960’s
he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1996
Rooted from Ireland’s rural life
Child memory’s of picking berries

Question 3

Ozymandias

Answer 3

Percy Shelly (1772-1822
Shelly was a radical and romantic poet
Anti-monarchy, anti-religious, supported social justice
Inspired by the French Revolution
Expelled from Oxford university due to an anti-Christian leaflet
Romantic era

Question 4

Hawks roosting

Answer 4

Ted Hughes (1830-1998)

influenced by the rural landscape of his upbringing.
He began publishing his poetry during a period of rapid post-war urbanization and industrialization.
Unsentimental about the natural world

Question 5

The prelude

Answer 5

William Wandsworth (1770-1850)
Born in the Cumberland Lake District
Both parents died therefore being slit from his siblings
Therefore having a deep affecting with the nature he was around
Romantic poet

Question 6

To autumn

Answer 6

John Keats
Romantic poet

Question 7

Imperceptibly as Grief

Answer 7

Emily Dickson (1830-1886)
Meditation of natures and time

Question 8

Living space

Answer 8

Imtiaz dharker
Born in Pakistan
Moved to Glasgow at age 3
Modern poet
Bone in 1953-present

Question 9

London

Answer 9

William Blake (1757-1827)
Romantic poet
Against the church / government
‘Society was a prison’ at that time
1800’s French Revolution inspired British poets like him
He’s angry and criticising London