Poems (context)

Question 1

The Prelude

Answer 1

• Romantic poet

- Industrial revolution

Question 2

My Last Duchess

Answer 2

• Attack on Uk pollitics
• Shows that nobility is corrupt
• Republican poem

Question 3

Storm on the Island

Answer 3

Irish - allusion to the troubles in ireland

Question 4

Bayonet Charge

Answer 4

thoughts and feelings of an unamed soldier charging an enemy in ww1

Question 5

Remains

Answer 5

Iraq war

Question 6

Poppies

Answer 6

Wier has a son so possibly imagining what it would be like to lose him

Question 7

War photographer

Answer 7

Duffy has been the UK poet Laureate since 2009

Question 8

Tissue

Answer 8

Scottish Pakistani writes poems about modern issues

internal+external conflict

Question 9

The Emigree

Answer 9

Rumens was born in south London however has a “fascination with elsewhere”

Question 10

Checking out me history

Answer 10

Born in the Caribbean
Uses phonetic spelling to display his own accent
writes about what its like being black

Question 11

Kamikaze

Answer 11

Japanese suicide pilots- the country was very controlling

society would celebrate a death but would never accept a pilot back into society