Peotry Context and Themes Flashcards
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Climbing My Grandfather Context
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- Waterhouse was interested in the natural world and also wrote walking guidebooks
- His poetry was often concerned with family
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Climbing My Grandfather Themes
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- Memory
- Family
- Achievement
- Childhood
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Singh Song Context
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- Nagra was born to Punjabi Indian parents who owned a corner shop
- Stereotypes exist in Britain concerning people of Indian origin owning shops and working hard
- Nagra wants the reader to deal with and accept the accent which is often made fun of in media
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Singh Song Themes
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- Marriage
- Romance
- Expectations
- Identity
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Winter Swans Context
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- Sheer’s poetry often used natural imagery and concerns relationships
- The collection of poems which ‘Winter Swans’ is from looks at separations of different kinds
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Winter Swans Themes
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- Reconciliation
- Commitment
- Nature
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Before You Were Mine Context
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- Duffy’s poetry is often about women’s experience
- The poem is autobiographical and based on old photos of her mother
- The family moved from Glasgow to Strafford
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Before You Were Mine Themes
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- Love
- Change
- Loss
- Personal history
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Mother Any Distance Context
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- Armitage wrote it for his ‘Book of Matches’ - 30 sonnets written for his 30th. Based on a party game in which players have to talk about their life in the time it takes for a match to burn
- He often writes about adolescence and growing up
- Children leaving home is a big event in the modern day
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Mother Any Distance Themes
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- Freedom and Restriction
- Growing up
- Separation
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Follower Context
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- Heaney was born into a large Irish farming family. This experience of Irish rural life is often present in his poetry
- Many poems were about his father
- A lot of his poems are concerned with the past
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Follower Themes
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- Father/Son relationship
- Nature and connection to it
- Innocence
13
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Eden Rock Context
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- Causley’s father died when he was 7 after returning from war injured
- Children often appear in his poetry and innocence is a theme
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Eden Rock Themes
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- Death
- Parental love
- Memory
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Walking Away Context
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- Day Lewis often drew inspiration from his relationship with his children
- Poem written about his son, Sean, who was starting boarding school
- Day Lewis had a difficult relationship with his own father and became increasingly alienated from him
