Poetry Anthology Flashcards
Quotes for London
I wander thro’ each charter’d street
Marks of weakness, marks of woe
Every infants cry of fear
Mind-forged manacles I hear
Every black’ning church appals
Runs in blood down palace walls
Youthful harlots curse
Blights with plagues the marriage hearse
Quotes for Hawk Roosting
I sit in the top of the wood, my eyes closed
Or sleep in rehearse perfect kills and eat
Earth’s face upward for my inspection
Now i hold creation in my foot
My manners are tearing off heads
The allotment of death
I am going to keep things like this
Quotes for Afternoons
Summer if fading
Young mothers assemble
Stand husbands in skilled trades
Our wedding lying near the television
Something is pushing them to the side of their own lives
Quotes for the Prelude
I heeded not the summons, happy time
Hiss’d along the polished ice
Of melancholy, not unnoticed, while the stars
Quotes for The Soldier
Corner of a foreign field that is forever England.
Washed by the rivers, blest by the suns of home
In hearts at peace, under an English heaven
Context for The Manhunt
Simon Armitage - York 1963
Known for being down to earth and realistic
Often called ‘Laura’s Poem’
Channel 4 Documentary
Laura is wife of Eddie Beddoes
Eddie served in Bosnia as a peacekeeper
Suffered from depression, due to injury
Context for Sonnet 43 - Elizabeth Barret Browning
Victorian poet
Lifelong illness
Father didn’t want her to marry Robert Browning
Published in Portuguese
44 sonnets
Addressed to Husband
Context for London - William Blake
Romantic poet
Industrial Revolution
Rejected established religion
Stroll through London
Lived and worked in London
Context for The soldier - Robert Brooke
Royal Navy
In Feb 1915, he left for war
Bitten by a mosquito and died in April
Buried in an olive garden
WW1
Context for She walks in beauty - Lord Byron
1814, he was 26
Engaged to be married, but wrote about his dead cousins wife
Romantic Poet
Many Children with a lot of women
Incest man
Fought for Greeks
Allegations with half-sister
Banished abroad due to actions
Context for Living space - Imitiaz Dharker
Born in Pakistan, brought up in Pakistan
Divides time in London and India
Mixed heritage
Challenge what she sees in the world in her poetry
Wants to raise awareness
Poverty
Context for As Imperceptibly as grief - Emily Dickinson
Born in USA
Graveyard outside window
Friends dead in graveyard - TB
Charles moved away from her
Famous after death
Recluse
Context for Cozy Apoligia - Rita Dove
Tribute to husband
Hurricane Floyd - 1999
Storm interrupts busy life
Husband - looked down upon
Context for Valentine - Carol Ann Duffy
Scottish
LGBTQ
Challenges love
Consumerism and capitalism
Seeks to deconstruct love
Context for A wife in London - Thomas Hardy
English
1899 - Boer war
Anti-war
Critical of Victorian society
Negative writer
Human conflict
GB vs SA - 22k Brits die, 25k SA die
