Contexts Flashcards
Manhunt
Bosnian war
Laura Beddoes trying to gain Eddie’s trust again
Eddie Beddoes- suffered from PTSD
Sonnet 43
Browning had many medical conditions- created a persona through her poetry where she didn’t have to worry about death
London
Written after walking through the streets of London
Blake lived in London most of his life
Critical of urban life
About industrial revolution
Viewed London as corrupt and polluted, social inequalities
Was seen as radical for his views on equality and views against the monarchy
The soldier
Beginning of WW1- had not truly experienced war
To gain recruits
Exploitation of propaganda to manipulate young adults into joining the army
Misleading presentation of war “honourable to die for your country”
She walks in beauty
Written about Lord Byron’s female cousin
Byron had many affairs and debts
Living space
Dharavi slums in Mumbai
Dharker was born in Pakistan but raised in Scotland- understands various cultures
to raise awareness
As imperceptibly as grief
Dickinson isolated herself for many years
Her guests were very special but limited
Cozy apologia
Hurricane Floyd in 1999- killed 87 people
Hit the east coast of the United States
autobiographical poem- dove allows readers to explore her perception on modern love
Valentine
Duffy was the first female poet laureate- subverts the stereotypes of men writing love poems
Subverts the presentation of love as kind- presents love as sinister
A wife in London
Boer war in 1899
About the impacts of war on relatives, how war destroys relationships
Death of a Naturalist
Heaney was around nature a lot
Brother dies at age of 4- Heaney uses a morose tone in many poems
Irish society was very stratified between upper and lower class
Hawk roosting
Hughes wanted to show how nature thinks
Shows the extreme state of mind of dictators
Hawks are intelligent and precise hunters
To autumn
Daily walks in nature
Keats was a romantic poet
Keats interested in nature
Afternoons
Post-war Britain
How war affected families
Stereotype of men going to work and women caring for children- women as unskilled
showing the passing of youth
Dulce
Owen was a solider- suffered from shell shock
Protests against propaganda, creates a realistic presentation of war
