Context Flashcards
letters from Yorkshire: What are the Context (4)?
1)year 2000. Computers = people’s everyday lives
2)worried over-reliance computers= devoid interaction natural world
3)ecopoetry= natural world meaningful.
4)spends most day sitting computer=journalist. isolated natural world.
when we two parted: What is the Context?
4 context points
1-British Romantic poets.
2-Byron’s relationship married aristocrat Lady Frances. After their affair ended,
3-she had an affair Duke of Wellington
4-no sense of place. happen in human emotions, delving deep into his psyche to examine he feels
before you were mine: What is the Context?
4 points
1)contemporary poem-mother young 1950s.
2) end World War II
3)teenager=exciting, vibrant, rebellious
4)women’s roles society=mothers above all
climbing my grandfather: What is the Context?
2 POINTS
1.recounting childhood memories playing with grandfather- REQUIRES CARE
2-speaks children adults perceive the world different
mother any distance: What is the Context? (3)
1-new house, bare undecorated
2-first-person-speaker relatively undefined person adult living with their mother.
3-tape measure=enduring bond=umbilical cord
Eden rock: What is the Context? (3)
1.Growing up in 20th century Causley had a Christian up-bring.
2.mythology folklore interest
3.innocence frequent theme= innocent child centre of poem.
Follower: What is the Context? 3
1)Ireland rich farming history, handed down over thousands of years through 200+ generations.
2)shift to motorized tractors began to occur around the 1920s
3)Irish farming methods are traditionally passed on from father to son, making them central to familial identity.
walking away: What is the Context and setting? 3
1.memory poem, autobiographical
2.Day-Lewis’s concern relationship between parent child, separation=influenced by childhood.
3.His mother died when he was young, difficult relationship with his own father.
neutral tones: What is the context and how is the speaker used? 3
1.poem is situated within the speaker’s troubled psyche
2.uncomfortable intimacy between speaker, addressee, -reader
3.lover= boring fallen out of love
winter swans: What is the Context? 3
1)association swans royalty perceived glamorous creatures.
2)natural world, focusing on humankind’s relationship to its environments.
3)swans offer model relationship of love
farmer bride: Context?4
1)Victorian era=women property+fathers their husbands, few legal rights
2)obedient wife, looking after the household
3)Mew=lesbian
4) dialect=working-class late-19th-century rural England
Loves philosophy: What is Context? 4
1-Romantic Poetry: seduction logical argument.
2-nothing in this life is alone every object, partner them. Gods Law. divine law.
3-The Power of Nature — Shelley Pantheists (divine law)
4-more interested in the phrysical pleasure rather than her
sonnet 29: What is the context? 3
1)support of women’s rights
2) women morally pure yet very little autonomy
3) no real physical setting. happens internally, within speaker’s thoughts.
Singh song: Context? 3
1)World War 2 drop population local working-age men=British government invited people across Commonwealth to live
2)Singh second-generation British Indian.
3)adopted elements British culture, peppering speech slang mixture Western Indian clothing.
porphyria’s lover: What is the Context? (3)
1)upper-class households, women were expected to be “angels in the house,” (Victorian era)
2)porphyria=blood disease affects nervous system+pain= psychosis, insomnia= mercy kill, lost touch reality
3)red herring= reader lulled.violence shocking, unexpected.
