Context Flashcards
The manhunt
Perspective of soldiers wife
Deals with ideas of PTSD
Sonnet 43
Brother drowned
Over-protective father
Eloped Robert Browning
London
Reflects on the negative aspects of life
Lived and worked in London
Victorian era - poverty and industrial change
The soldier
Soldier in ww1
Died of blood poisoning
Never involved in active service
She walks in beauty
Leading figure of romantic movement
Liked to break conventions
Private life was very public
Promiscuous
Living space
Born in Pakistan
Raised in Scotland
Likes to represent different cultures
As imperceptibly as grief
Lived in USA
Reclusive - didn’t leave the house often
Several family members died before writing the poem
Cosy apologia
Set against the arrival of hurricane Floyd
American poet
Married to a writer called Fred
Valentine
Breaks convention of materialistic society
First openly lesbian poet laureate
A wife in London
Storyteller and novelist
Related to the Boer war
‘a’ wife is generic and related to the number of lives lost in every war
Death of a naturalist
Four year old brother dies in a car accident
Many poems are about loss of innocence
Grew up in rural Northern Ireland
Proud Irishman
Died 2013
Hawk roosting
Poet laureate
Write about the natural world
Said poem is not about cruelty, but the hawks natural way of thinking
To autumn
Romantic poet
Wrote a lot about nature
Died at 25 - worried about not leaving a lasting impression on the world
Afternoons
Poetry celebrates ordinary life
Never married
Lived above the park it is set in
Dulce et decorum est
Killed in action one week before the signing of the armistice
His mother received the telegram when church bells were ringing in celebration on armistice Day
