Context Flashcards
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Manhunt context
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- written by Simon Armitage in 2008
- about Eddie Beddoes coming back from war with lost of injuries
- discusses the pain he and his wife go through as they attempt to rekindle their love
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Sonnet 43 context
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- written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning in 1850
- about future husband Robert Browning
- she had health issues and her father was over protective so didn’t support her relationship
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London context
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- written by William Blake in 1794
- Blake was politically and socially radical and believed in social and racial equality and questioned the church
- he lived in London and didn’t like the poverty the industrial revolution brought with it
- he was a romantic poet
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The soldier context
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- written by Rupert Brooke in 1914
- he was a soldier but never acc fought and died of blood poisoning
- very patriotic
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She walks in beauty context
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- written by Lord Byron in 1814
- he was known for his lavish lifestyle and scandalous affairs
- he was a romantic poet
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Living space context
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- written by Imtiaz Dharker in 1997 about the housing in Mumbai
- she was born in Pakistan, raised in Glasgow and now lives in Britain and India
- she has an interest in representing a different culture
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As Imperceptibly as Grief context
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- written by Emily Dickinson and published after her death in 1891
- she lived most of her adult life in isolation and often wrote about death and nature
- several family members died before poem was written
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Cozy Apologia context
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- written by Rita Dove in 2004
- she is an African-American poet
- It is set in Hurricane Floyd in 1999
- dedicated to her husband Fred
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Valentine context
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- written by Carol Ann Duffy in 1993
* she was Scottish and was controversial was a feminist
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A Wife in London context
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- written by Thomas Hardy in 1899
- written during the time of the Boer war
- his poetry often presents war as pointless and destructive
- Hardy was a novelist
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Death of a Naturalist context
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- written by Seamus Heaney in 1966
- he often wrote about nature, childhood and loss of innocence
- he grew up on a farm and his brother died at four years old
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Hawk Roosting context
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- written by Ted Hughes in 1960
- he wrote about nature
- he grew up in West Yorkshire
- it is about the hawk’s way of thinking
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To Autumn context
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- written by John Keats in 1820
- he died age 25 and wanted this to be his lasting memory
- he was a romantic poet
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Afternoons context
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- written by Phillip Larkin in 1964
- he wrote about the ordinary events that occur in people’s lives
- he never married, had children or left the UK
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Dulce et Decorum est context
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- written by Wilfred Owen was published after his death in 1920
- he died one week before the end of WW1
- his mother received the letter of his death as the bells rang out celebrating the end of the war
- he went to Oxford and was an officer in the war but was strongly against it
