Context for poetry anthology Flashcards
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The Manhunt
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- Simon Armitage- 2008 (The Not Dead)
- Eddie is the soldier
- His wife is Laura
- Eddie fought in Bosnia
- Soldiers suffering from PTSD
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Sonnet 43
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- Elizabeth Barret Browning
- From “Sonnets from the Portuguese”
- Eloped to her husband against her father’s will
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London
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- William Blake
- 1790s
- Believed in social and racial equality
- Questioned church teachings
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The Soldier
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- Rupert Brooke
- 1914
- WW1
- Died in the war
- Patriotic
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She Walks in Beauty
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- Lord Byron
- Anne Beatrix Wilmot, wife of Byron’s first cousin, Sir Robert Wilmot
- Saw her at his cousin’s funeral
- Poem is more restrained in comparison to his more lavish lifestyle
- Presents her as almost untouchable (because she socially should be…)
- 1814, originally intended to be set to music
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Living Space
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- Imtias Dharker
- Born in Pakistan
- About housing in Mumbai, India
- 1997
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As Imperceptibly as Grief
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- Emily Dickinson
- Recluse
- reluctant to leave her bedroom in later life
- most friendships were exclusively through letters
- her ideas of oncoming darkness
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Cozy Apologia
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- Dedicated to poets husband
- Rita Dove
- 1999 Hurricane Floyd
- Hyped up to be rlly rlly bad and was better than expectd
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Valentine
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- Carol Ann Duffy
- Feminist
- First woman to hold Poet Laureate in the UK
- 1993
- Asked to write it by a radio presenter
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A Wife in London
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- Thomas Hardy
- 1899
- Boer war
- poetry often presents war as pointless and destructive
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Death of A Naturalist
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- 1960s
- Seamus Heaney
- Irish
- Lived in rural Ireland
- Brother died at 4 years old
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Hawk Roosting
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- Ted Hughes
- 1960
- Controversy as to whether Nazi imagery in poem
- Ted Hughes commented that it’s simply the ‘natural’ view of the Hawk
