Context Flashcards
What is the context behind ‘A Poison Tree’?
William Blake is a romantic poet that often focused on nature (1793)
What is the context behind ‘The Destruction of Sennacherib’?
Assyria is modern day Iraq through to turkey
The story of the Assyrian army attaching the holy city of Jerusalem
What is the context behind ‘The Prelude’?
Wordsworth=romantic poet who didn’t believe humanity had power over nature
Coming to terms with who he is and his place in nature and the world
What is the context behind ‘The Man He Killed’?
Written at the time of the second Boer war and hardy was against the Boer war so discusses the futility of it
What is the context behind ‘Cousin Kate’?
Despite the poems message Rossetti was not interested in women’s rights and remained unmarried
What is the context behind ‘Half-Caste’?
Agard was born in the Caribbean and moved to England and didn’t want to conform to British culture
What is the context behind ‘Exposure’?
Owen was a soldier in ww1 during the the stalemate of winter 1917 (the coldest winter in memory)
What is the context behind ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’?
Based on a Battle of Balaclava in 1854 during the Crimean war
What is the context behind ‘Catrin’?
Clarke’s real daughter is called Catrin so this is based on the struggle of her growing up
What is the context behind ‘War Photographer’?
The writer was friends with a war photographer so was intrigued by the challenge war photographers face
What is the context behind ‘Belfast confetti’?
Carson was born in Northern Ireland and lived through ‘The Troubles’ ( a time of Irish nationalist terrorism)
What is the context behind ‘The Class Game’?
Casey comes from a poorer background and challenges the stereo types she faced because of it
What is the context behind ‘Poppies’?
When poppies was written there were still British soldiers dying in Iraq and Afghanistan this was written and a way to try and understand the suffering death caused
What is the context behind ‘No Problem’?
Zephaniah grew up in Birmingham and suffered a lot of racial abuse while there
What is the context behind ‘What Were They Like’?
There is specific reference to the Vietnam war and Levertov
argues that the country lost its identity during 1955-1975
