Anthology Poetry - Themes and Context Flashcards
Name 3 poems that link to the power of humans.
Ozymandias, My Last Duchess, Storm On The Island
Name 3 poems that link to the power of nature.
Kamikaze, The Prelude, Exposure
Name 3 poems that link to the effects of conflict.
Charge Of The Light Brigade, War Photographer, Remains
Name 3 poems that link to the reality of conflict.
Exposure, Remains, War Photographer
Name 3 poems that link to loss and absence.
Exposure, The Emigrée, Kamikaze
Name 3 poems that link to memory.
Kamikaze, War Photographer, Poppies
Name 3 poems that link to negative emotions - anger.
London, War Photographer, Checking Out Me History
Name 2 poems that link to negative emotions - guilt.
Remains, War Photographer
Name 3 poems that link to negative emotions - fear.
The Prelude, Storm On The Island, Bayonet Charge
Name 3 poems that link to negative emotions - pride.
Ozymandias, The Prelude, My Last Duchess
Name 3 poems that link to identity.
The Charge Of The Light Brigade, My Last Duchess, Remains
Name 3 poems that link to individual experiences.
War Photographer, The Emigrée, Remains
Percy Bysshe Shelley was the author of Ozymandias - What type of a poet was he?
A ‘Romantic’ poet - ‘Romantic’ poets believed in emotion rather than reason, and particularly focused on the power of nature
William Blake was the author of London - What did he look at as a poet?
How innocence is lost, and how society has been corrupted - He believed in social and racial equality and questioned Church teachings
William Wordsworth was the author of The Prelude - What type of a poet was he?
A ‘Romantic’ poet - ‘Romantic’ poets believed in emotion rather than reason, and particularly focused on the power of nature
Robert Browning was the author of My Last Duchess - What inspired him to write the poem?
In 1561, the Duke of Ferrara’s wife dies in suspicious circumstances. There were rumours she was poisoned
Alfred Tennyson the author of The Charge Of The Light Brigade - Why did he write the poem?
As a tribute to the men who died in the battle it describes
Wilfred Owen was the author of Exposure - How does the poem link to his life?
He wrote the poem whilst in the trenches in World War One. Much of his poetry reveals his anger at the war’s waste of life and its horrific conditions
Seamus Heaney was the author of Storm On The Island - How does his Northern Irish heritage link with he poem?
The first 8 letters of the poem’s title spell ‘Stormont’ - The name of Northern Ireland’s parliament buildings. This hints that the ‘storm’ could be about some of the violent political disturbances in Ireland
Ted Hughes was the author of Bayonet Charge - Why has he written about World War One even though the poem was written much later (1957)?
His father served in and survived World War One, and Ted spent two years as a mechanic in the RAF
Carol Ann Duffy was the author of War Photographer - What does line 12 of the poem link to? (“of running children in a nightmare heat.”)
A war photographer, Nick Ut., took a photo of a Vietnamese girl running naked in extreme pain - she’d torn her clothes off after being severely burned
Imtiaz DHarker was the author of Tissue - The poem was part of her 2006 collection, ‘The Terrorist At My Table’. What does this collection look at?
It questions how well we know the people around us
John Agard was the author of Checking Out Me History - What does his poetry often examine?
Cultures and identities
