Context Flashcards
1
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Manhunt
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- Bosnian war
- discharged due to injury + depression
- modern warfare
- Eddie + Laura Beddows
- PTSD
2
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Sonnet 43
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- husband Robert browning
- eloped due to overprotective father
- traditional love poetry
- vic poet - romanticism
3
Q
London
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- industrial rev
- Blake had radical political views
- class attack
- poor people - fight to survive, few rights
- close proximity between rich and poor
- disease, poverty
4
Q
Soldier
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- never served
- war propaganda
- Georgian poetry present eng countryside as paradise/ romanticised view
- privileged upbringing - patriotism + Christian
5
Q
She walks in beauty
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- romanticism - emotion, beauty, nature
- she - might be Artemis
- similar to medieval poetry - female on pedestal
- saw woman at party
6
Q
Living space
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- Pakistani - Scottish poet
- documentaries on women and kids protection, education + health in India
- set in Mumbai slums - up to 1 million ppl live in poverty
7
Q
As imperceptibly as grief
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- reclusive
- cousin died when E was 13, sent away to recover
- lived next to graveyard
- lived through American civil war - loss
8
Q
Cozy apologia
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- written for husband Fred
- hurricane Floyd 1999
- autobiographical
- apologia - formal defence of opinions
9
Q
Valentine
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- lesbian - unconventional relationships
- radical, feminist
- rejecting capitalist culture for domesticating women
10
Q
Wife in London
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- boer war
- biased perspective by British media
- smoggy, polluted London cause health problem in soldiers
- industrial rev
- hardy has tragic style
11
Q
Death of a naturalist
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- Irish
- grew up on farm in Ireland
- during Irish troubles - only realised when grown up
- brother died when H was 4 - trauma + grief in childhood
12
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Hawk roosting
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- hughes married Sylvia Plath - killed herself - feels guilt
- grew up in rural Yorkshire - hunting and fishing
- saw nature as transcending reason
- viewed his poems as vitality and instinct not violence
13
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To autumn
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- romanticism - nature, beauty
- awareness of death - parents + brother died early, own TB (died age 26)
- impact of industry on agriculture
- 6 odes - beauty of imagination
14
Q
Afternoons
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- post war Britain, late 1950s
- start of national prosperity
- working class not prosperous
- pessimistic, skeptical, dark humour style
- moments of beauty - capture ordinary life despite pessimism
15
Q
Dulce et decorum est
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- WW1
- chlorine gas attack
- oppose patriotic war propaganda Jessie Pope
- on frontline - PTSD
- died week before end of war
- ‘dulce….’ Common saying at start of WW1
16
Q
Ozymandias
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- Ramases II
- Romantic poet – focus on emotion + nature
- Disliked monarchies, absolute power
- inspired by french rev (change)
- inspired by convo with friend, both wrote sonnets about the statue
17
Q
Mametz wood
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- Welsh poet visit death of welsh soldiers
- inspired by pic of soldiers linked arms in mass grave
- battle of the Somme 1914 - soldiers told to walk in wood German soldier hidden in
- soldiers discovered by farmer ploughing land
- to commemorate soldiers
18
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The prelude
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- romanticism - emotion, nature
- grew up in Lake District in nature
- loved ice skating as child
- autobiographical
