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The Manhunt - Start

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• “the frozen river which ran through his face”

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The Manhunt - Middle

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• “parachute silk of his punctured lung”

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The Manhunt - End

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  • “sweating, unexploded mine”

* “Then, and only then, did I come close”

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The Manhunt - Context

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  • Author - Simon Armitage
  • The soldier, Eddie Beddoes, has physical and mental scars of war.
  • Laura Beddoes, his wife, is the narrator.
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Sonnet 43 - Start

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  • “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”

* “I love thee to the depth and breadth and height”

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Sonnet 43 - Middle

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• “Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight”

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Sonnet 43 - End

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  • “I love thee” - anaphora

* “but love thee better after death”

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Sonnet 43 - Context

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  • Author - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • She escapes from societal pressures through her relationship.
  • Her love is extremely strong for Robert Browning.
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London - Start

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  • “I wander thro’ each charter’d street”

* “every face I meet / Marks of weakness, marks of woe”

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London - Middle

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• “mind-forg’d manacles I hear”

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London - End

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  • “blackening Church appalls”
  • “Runs in blood down Palace walls”
  • “youthful Harlot’s curse”, “Infant’s tear”
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London - Context

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Author - William Blake
• In the poem, he describes walking through London and remarking on the horrible conditions.
• He rejects the people in power (“Church”/”Palace”) ignore the people’s problems.

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The Soldier - Start

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• “some corner of a foreign field / That is forever England”

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The Soldier - Middle

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• “England bore, shaped, made aware”

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The Soldier - End

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• “all evil shed way”; “pulse in the eternal mind”; “an English heaven”

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The Soldier - Context

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  • Author - Rupert Brooke
  • Written in 1914 before the start of the war - perhaps was so influenced by propaganda.
  • He treats England as a ‘mother’ or even a divine being.
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She Walks in Beauty - Start

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• “all that’s best of dark and bright”

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She Walks in Beauty - Middle

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• “her face; / Where thoughts serenely sweet express”

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She Walks in Beauty - End

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• “A heart who’s love is innocent!”

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She Walks in Beauty - Context

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  • Author - Lord Byron
  • About Anne Wilmot, wife of Byron’s cousin
  • Takes each body part in turn to suggest she has good qualities
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Living Space - Start

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• “Nothing is flat / or parallel.”
• Beams /
balance crookedly”
• “nails clutch at open seams”

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Living Space - Middle

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• “someone has squeezed / a living space”

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Living Space - End

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  • “eggs in a wire basket”
  • “fragile curves of white”
  • “slanted universe”
  • “bright, thin walls of faith”
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Living Space - Context

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  • Author - Imtiaz Dharker
  • She wants to show the Western world the reality of the slums found in Mumbai or elsewhere.
  • There is despair in the slums yet there are messages of hope, thanks to the people.
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Hawk Roosting - Start

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  • “I sit in the top of the wood”

* “The convenience of the high trees!

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As Imperceptibly as Grief - Start

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• “As Imperceptibly as Grief / The Summer lapsed away”

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As Imperceptibly as Grief - Middle

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• “The Morning foreign shone”

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As Imperceptibly as Grief - End

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• “Summer made her light escape / Into the Beautiful”

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As Imperceptibly as Grief - Context

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  • Author - Emily Dickinson
  • She was a recluse in her adult years and would send even send letters outside her home to communicate.
  • In the poem, “Summer” comes to an end gradually - symbolises the slow end of grief.
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Cozy Apologia - Start

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• “with furrowed brow / And chainmail glinting”

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Cozy Apologia - Middle

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  • “post-post-modern age”

* “sweet with a dark and hollow center”

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Cozy Apologia - End

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• “I fill this stolen time with you.”

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Cozy Apologia - Context

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  • Author - Rita Dove
  • In this poem, Rita and her husband, “Fred”, are taking refuge during a storm.
  • She says her love is ordinary but genuine - and the poem is ‘in defence of coziness’.
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Valentine - Start

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• “Not a red rose or a satin heart / I give you an onion”

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Valentine - Middle

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  • “It will bind you with tears / like a lover”

* “I am trying to be truthful”

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Valentine - End

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  • “Take it.” - command
  • “Lethal.”
  • “cling to your fingers, / cling to your knife”
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Valentine - Context

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  • Author - Carol Ann Duffy
  • In the poem she criticises cliché presentations of love such as “rose”s or a “cute card”.
  • She justifies why onions are a better or more “truthful” representation of love - but warns against them at the end of the poem, “Lethal.”
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A Wife in London - Start

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  • “tawny vapour”, “waning taper”

* “messenger’s knock cracks smartly”

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A Wife in London - Middle

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  • “the fog hangs thicker”, “by firelight flicker”

* “His hand, whom the worm now knows”

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A Wife in London - End

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  • “Page-full of his hoped return”

* “brake and burn / In the summer weather”

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A Wife in London - Context

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  • Author - Thomas Hardy
  • He criticises war as pointless and destructive.
  • The poem was written during the Boer War - a wife getting a telegram/message about a dead husband was very common - partly why half of the poem is “Irony”.
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Death of a Naturalist - Start

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  • “bubbles gargled delicately”

* “But best of all was the warm thick slobber”

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Death of a Naturalist - Middle

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• “Miss Walls”, “daddy frog”, “mammy frog”

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Death of a Naturalist - End

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  • “Then one hot day”
  • “slap and plop were obscene threats”
  • “poised like mud grenades”
  • “I sickened, turned, and ran”
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Death of a Naturalist - Context

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  • Author - Seamus Heaney
  • He grew up in Northern Ireland - known for its rich countryside available to the children in schools.
  • Reflects on changing viewpoints as a growing child as he had a son of his own in 1966.
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Hawk Roosting - Middle

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  • “I hold Creation in my foot!”

* “My manners are tearing off heads”

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Hawk Roosting - End

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  • “The sun is behind me”

* “I am going to keep things like this.”

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Hawk Roosting - Context

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  • Author - Ted Hughes
  • He had a rural upbringing and so was well aware of the reality and violence of nature.
  • His father was a WW1 veteran and he was aware of the violent nature of humans - depicted by the brutality of the hawk.
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To Autumn - Start

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• “Seasons of mists and mellow fruitfulness”

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To Autumn - Middle

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• “Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind”

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To Autumn - End

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  • “Where are the songs of Spring?”

* “light wind lives or dies”

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To Autumn - Context

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  • Author - John Keats
  • He writes an ‘ode’ to Autumn as it is full of “fruitfulness” and a generally good time for harvest etc.
  • He was near the end of his life due to Tuberculosis - explores “death” in terms of drastic change in the poem.
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Afternoons - Start

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  • “Summer is fading

* “Young mothers assemble”

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Afternoons - Middle

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  • “husbands in skilled trades”

* “‘Our Wedding’, lying”

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Afternoons - End

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• “Something is pushing them/

To the side of their own lives”

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Afternoons - Context

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  • Author - Phillip Larkin
  • He criticises the structure of family and its affect on those who are part of one - he himself had a poor relationship with his parents.
  • Mothers have lost their freedoms yet the fathers continue to work in their “skilled trades”.
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Dulce et Decorum Est - Start

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  • “Bent double, like old beggars”
  • “Drunk with fatigue”
  • “Men marched asleep”
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Dulce et Decorum Est - Middle

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  • “Gas! GAS! Quick, boys! - an ecstasy of fumbling”

* “I saw him drowning > guttering, choking, drowning”

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Dulce et Decorum Est - End

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  • “His hanging face, like a devil sick of sin”
  • “Obscene as cancer”
  • “incurable sores on innocent tongues”
  • “The Old Lie: Pro patria mori”
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Dulce et Decorum Est - Context

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  • Author - Wilfred Owen
  • He fought in WW1 and suffered immensely.
  • Poem written to counter pro-war propaganda and expose it as horrific as it truly was.
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Ozymandias - Middle

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  • “The hand that mocked them, the heart that fed”

* “‘Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’”

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Ozymandias - End

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  • “Nothing beside remains”
  • “Boundless and bare”
  • “The lone and level sands stretch far away”
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Ozymandias - Context

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  • Author - Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • He was a romantic poet who was inspired by a real statue of Ramses II.
  • In the poem, the power of nature prevails over the arrogance of even ‘King Ozymandias’ - somewhat of a hubris.
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Mametz Wood - Start

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  • “the wasted young”

* “broken bird’s egg shell of a skull”

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Mametz Wood - Middle

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  • “nesting machine guns”
  • “even now the earth stands sentinel”
  • “like a wound working a foreign body”
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Mametz Wood - End

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  • “skeletons paused mid-dance macabre”

* “notes they had sung” > “from their absent tongues”

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Mametz Wood - Context

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  • Author - Owen Sheers
  • He attacks the results of war due to their profound effect on the young soldiers that fought.
  • Obvious negatives yet subtle melancholic positives through natural metaphors.
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The Prelude - Start

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  • “through the twilight blaz’d /

* I heeded not the summons”

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The Prelude - Middle

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  • “proud and exulting, like an untir’d horse

* “The Pack loud bellowing”

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The Prelude - End

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  • “sent an aliens sound”

* “orange sky of evening died away”

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The Prelude - Context

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  • Author - William Wordsworth
  • He wrote an autobiography of his childhood ice skating - before the death of his parents.
  • Evaluates nature versus humans and change as the industrial revolution developed.

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