Context

Question 1

Context for the Manhunt

Answer 1

• Bosnian war
  Eddie beddoee and wife Laura
  blazan poetry (used to describe lovers body)

Question 2

Author of the manhunt

Answer 2

Simon Armitage

Question 3

Sonnet 43 context

Answer 3

• Brother drowned when she was 32
  Sonnet associated with traditional love poetry

Question 4

Author of Sonnet 43

Answer 4

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Question 5

London Context

Answer 5

• Industrial Revolution, children working
• prostitution, syphilis

Question 6

Author of London

Answer 6

William Blake

Question 7

The soldier context

Answer 7

• Georgian poetry presents English country side as paradise (romanticized view)
• Christian
• poem contrasts with other WW1 poets with his notion of the noble sacrifice

Question 8

The soldier author

Answer 8

Rupert Brooke

Question 9

She walks in beauty context

Answer 9

• romanticism— nature over reason
• courtly love (put woman on a pedestal)

Question 10

She walks in beauty author

Answer 10

Lord Byron

Question 11

Living space context

Answer 11

• Mumbai slums in India
• million people in poverty as a community

Question 12

Living space author

Answer 12

Imtiaz Dharker

Question 13

As imperceptibly as grief context

Answer 13

• influenced by bible and romantic poets
• reclusive domestic
• her house overlooked a graveyard
• didn’t like guests

Question 14

As imperceptibility as grief author

Answer 14

Emily Dickinson

Question 15

Cozy Apologia context

Answer 15

• hurricane Floyd
• Technical modernity

Question 16

Cozy apologia author

Answer 16

Rita Dove

Question 17

Valentine context

Answer 17

• radical
• Modern POV on love
• not traditional love poetry
  Material capitalist culture rejected for domestic imagery

Question 18

Valentine author

Answer 18

Carol Ann Duffy

Question 19

A weasel in London context

Answer 19

• boer war
• hardy writes novels (form)

Question 20

A wife in London author

Answer 20

Thomas Hardy

Question 21

Death of a naturalist context

Answer 21

• Irish poet connects landscape with personal memories
• post romantic response to nature

Question 22

Death of a naturalist author

Answer 22

Seamus Heaney

Question 23

Hawk roosting context

Answer 23

• recognizing nature as transcending reason

Question 24

Hawk roosting author

Answer 24

Ted Hughes

Question 25

To autumn context

Answer 25

• romanticism
• Ancient Greek

Question 26

To autumn author

Answer 26

John Keats

Question 27

Afternoons context

Answer 27

• 1950
• pesemistic POV
• writing poem post war
• Larkin writes about ordinary things

Question 28

Afternoons author

Answer 28

Philip Larkin

Question 29

Dulce eat decorum est context

Answer 29

• WW1 suffering in a chlorine gas attack
• Opposite of properganda war poets (Jessie pope)
  -“it is sweet and right”

Question 30

Dulce eat Decorum Est author

Answer 30

Wilfred Owen

Question 31

Ozymandias context

Answer 31

• Shelly is a political romantic poet
• Ozymandias comes out of French Revolution
• British imperialism (empire)

Question 32

Ozymandias author

Answer 32

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Question 33

Mametz wood context

Answer 33

• welsh poet vistits sight of slaughtered welsh soldiers in WW1 Somme battle field
• agricultural and mining

Question 34

Mametz wood author

Answer 34

Owen Sheers

Question 35

The prelude context

Answer 35

• romanticism— the sublime
• iceskating was new fashion, but people romanticised it into escape of solitude

Question 36

The prelude author

Answer 36

William Wordsworth