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manhunt themes

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power - he is powerless -> the PTSD controls him

love - shows the love of laura and eddie and how love helps them reconnect

war - the impact of war and how it lasts beyond the battle field

time - how as time passes, Laura can better understand his PTSD

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manhunt context

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written about Eddie Beddoes who is a british soldier sho served in the bosnian war and suffered PTSD as a result

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sonnet 43 themes

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power - power of love

love - sonnet -> traditional form of love poem

religion - a positive view of religion -> idolizes her future husband more than God

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sonnet 43 context

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her beloved brother drowned when she was 32, and she became a recluse for 5 years

sonnet form is associated with traditional love poetry

she said ‘Christs religion is essentially poetry - poetry glorified’

overprotective father - she eloped (ran away to secretly marry) against his with wishes with robert

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london themes

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power - the citizens of london are powerless

places - about london

man - a group of people -> londoners

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london context

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industrial revolution + workhouses for children and capitalist use of slavery

hegemony (leadership or dominance over a group) of industrial power

recent french revolution against aristocracy

suffering of city: prostitution, destitution (bad poverty), disease, hunger, church seen as uncaring

he didn’t like the church, monarchy, city life

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the soldier themes

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love - nationalistic love using sonnet (typical love poem) form

war - about a soldier preparing for his heroic death

places - nationalistic tone personifies England as female

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the soldier context

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written before he had ever fought in a battle

he died in combat in 1915

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cozy apologia themes

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power - power of nature and how the power of love is greater than nature

nature - about extreme weather -> the hurricane

love - shows rita doves love for her husband and how nothing can stop her from loving him

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cozy apologia context

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hurricane Floyd (US storm 1999)

autobiographical and domestic; written to husband Fred

written about her husband

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valentine themes

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power - power of love

love - expresses love in a different way

man - a human relationship

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valentine context

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radical, interested in protest, feminist

likes to break conventions and in Valentine she is criticising societys views of being materialistic

wrote this poem when challenged to by a radio station to write a traditional love poem

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a wife in london themes

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power - powerful emotions and how the wife and husband are powerless

love - about a relationship and the pain that grief brings

war - the impact of war and how it lasts beyond the battle field

time - the cruelty of time and the twisted order in which she receives the messages

death - a wife experiencing her husbands death

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a wife in london context

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Boer war fought by an Imperialist Britain in south Africa between 1899-1902 - perspective is biased by positive British media accounts

Urban London was smoggy and recruitment for the Boer War revealed poor health of men

Hardy was a novelist writing narratives of tragedy and fateful events, he gave up writing books for poetry - his style was tragic

Hardy - ‘a poet should express the emotion of all ages and the thought of his own’

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death of a naturalist themes

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power - power of nature

nature - shows how fascinating and beautiful nature and how disgusting and scary nature is

love - deep fascination and love for things

time - change of perception over time

man - about a person growing up

death - loss of innocence, death of childhood

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death of a naturalist context

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Irish poet connects landscape and the rural with personal memories and Irish history - Irish conflict and ugly, tribal violence

grew up on a farm

his brother died at 4 when Heaney was young and as a result his poems are about loss of innocence

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hawk roosting themes

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power - shows the arrogance power can bring and the unfairness that comes with power

nature - about a hawk and the animal world and the viciousness of nature

man - hawk is a symbol of man

death - hawk kills things

religion - compares itself to God and says God is with it

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hawk roosting context

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grew up in rural Yorkshire, enjoying hunting and fishing

his poems weren’t about cruelty, he just wanted to show the hawks natural way of thinking

recognised nature as transcending reason

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afternoons themes

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power - presents people as passive and powerless within their own lives

love - the love mothers have for their children and the different stages of love and how love will always happen

time - a particular phase in peoples lives which feels like they are trapped

man - looks at a stage in peoples lives and how he depicts women and the endless cycle of love people experience

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afternoons context

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he was a post-war poet who shied away from publicity and wrote everyday experiences and domesticity in an ordinary language

women were expected to stay at home and look after the children

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dulce et decorum est themes

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power - devastating power of war and how soldiers are powerless

war - soldiers facing death

man - a group of soldiers

death - soldiers die

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dulce et decorum est context

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WW1 suffering/death in a chlorine attack

written to oppose the propaganda of patriotic poems that tried to encourage young men that going to war was brave

he witnessed first hand warfare at the front, he saw many people die and died a week before the end of the war

Owen: my subject is war and the pity of war

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ozymandias themes

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power - shows the arrogance power can bring and the power of nature

nature - shows how nature will always outlast man

love - arrogance and self love

time - in the end time always wins

man - about king Rameses

religion -compares itself to God

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ozymandias context

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wrote political poetry criticising authority and tyranny and called for rebellion

he wrote this after hearing of an explorer retrieving the statue of ozymandias from the desert

about king Rameses who was a powerful egyptian pharaoh

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mametz wood themes

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power - devastating power of war and how soldiers are powerless

war - soldiers in battle and the impact war has on the enviroment

time - a specific time in history, the past and the present

place - about a battlefield

death - soldiers die

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mametz wood context

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welsh poet visits site of slaughter of welsh soldiers in WW1 somme battlefields

agricultural and mining significance of land as history for welsh men

response to a photo of 20 dead WW1 soldiers all with linked arms in a shallow grave

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the prelude themes

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power - the power of nature

nature - shows how fascinating and beautiful nature and how disgusting and scary nature is

love - intense love for nature

time - a specific point in someone’s life and the nostalgia for childhood

man - young person growing up

death - loss of innocence and death of childhood

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the prelude context

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romanticism; the sublime

ice skating was the new fashion but the English romantics made it an escape into solitude

autobiographical poem

romantics connected winter with a counter-Enlightenment response, being a place of instinct, emotion and memory

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she walks in beauty themes

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power - powerful emotions

love - shows the love for women

man - about women and one persons views of another

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she walks in beauty context

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romanticism’s preoccupation with emotion, beauty and nature over reason

‘she’ may be referring to anna beatrix, a poetic muse or Goddess Artemis

alludes to the literary courtly love tradition of medieval period of placing a female on a pedestal, emphasising perfection

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living space themes

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power - people living in the slums have no power however they have not given up hope

places - shows people surviving and almost thriving in a difficult place

man - about the people living in the slums

religion - references faith and the hope

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living space context

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set in the Mumbai slums in India where up to a million people live in poverty as a community

fragile existence connected to poets multiple identities as Pakistani/Scots and she describes herself as a Scottish Muslim Calvinist

strong social conscience - connecting with people with lands - in film documentaries from disability to street children

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to autumn themes

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to autumn context

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imperceptibly as grief themes

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imperceptibly as grief context

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