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What is the Writer’s message in The Prelude?

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As you get older you realise there are bad things about the world and that your relationship with nature changes.

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What is the Writer’s message in To Autumn?

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Appreciate the beauty of nature while you can.

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What is the Writer’s message in She Walks in Beauty?

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True beauty is a combination of outward beauty and inner goodness of character.

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What is the Writer’s message in Valentine?

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Love can be painful and it comes in many different forms.

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What is the Writer’s message in Sonnet 43?

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Love and relationships can go beyond “ordinary love”.

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What is the Writer’s message in Cozy Apologia?

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There is nothing wrong with ordinary, safe ad cozy love and as long as your happy that’s ok.

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What is the writer’s message in Dulce et Decorum Est?

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Showing the reality of war and challenging the reality of war.

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What is the Writer’s message in The Soldier?

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How he thinks about war and his idealistic ideas about patriotism and war.

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What is the Writer’s message in A Wife in London?

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It’s not only the lives of the soldiers that are affected when someone dies at war.

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What is the Writer’s message in the Manhunt?

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Even though a soldier does not die at war there are some mental wounds that take longer to heal.

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What is the Writer’s message in Mametz Wood?

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We must not forget about the soldiers of the past and the ugliness of war.

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What are three contextual points about The Prelude?

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-William Wordsworth was born in 1770 and died in 1850
-He was an English poet who lived in the Lake District
-He had a distant relationship with his mother and his father died when he was 7
-He believed nature could be like a teacher/parent to him

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What are three contextual points about To Autumn?

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-John Keats was a significant romantic poet
-He had many family issues
-He had lots of money troubles
-The poem was inspired by a walk near the river Itchen
-He died ages 25 from tuberculosis

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Who wrote The Prelude?

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William Wordsworth

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Who wrote To Autumn

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John Keats

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Who wrote Dulce et Decorum Est?

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Wilfred Owen

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What are three contextual points about Dulce Et Decorum Est?

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-Owen enlisted to fight in WW1 in 1915 aged 22
-He died in battle a week before the war ended
-Owen was writing in opposition to WW1 propaganda
-Chlorine gas was a popular weapon in WW1

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Who wrote The Soldier?

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Rupert Brooke

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What are three contextual points about The Soldier?

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-Brooke enlisted to fight in WW1 in 1914 aged 27
-April 1915 Brooke died on a ship form blood poisoning that he got from a mosquito bite
-Brooke never actually went to the front line
-He wrote a series of sonnets and this was the final one in his collection

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Who wrote a Wife in London?

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Thomas Hardy

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What are three contextual points for a Wife in London?

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-It was written about the second Boar war (1899-1902)
-Around 2000 soldiers were killed
-Hardy was not a soldier, he was an anti-war poet
- Hardy was born in Dorset
-He was a poet of the Victorian age (1840-1928)

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Who wrote the Manhunt?

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Simon Armitage

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What are three contextual points about the Manhunt?

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-Poem is based on a real soldier, Eddie Beddos
-Poem was written for a documentary on army veterans
-Eddie fought in the Bosnian war (1992-95) which was a very violent war
-Eddie suffers from PTSD

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Who wrote Mametz Wood?

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Owen Sheers

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What are three contextual points about Mametz wood?

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-Sheers was born in Wales in 1974
-He was not a soldier, but interested in history
-Wrote the poem when war detritus was still being found in Mametz Wood
-Mametz Wood is in Northern France and was a key setting battleground in the Battle of the Somme

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Who wrote she Walks in Beauty?

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Lord Byron

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What are three contextual points for She Walks in Beauty?

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-Byron was born in 1788 and died in 1824
-He was described as “mad, bad and dangerous to know”
-He was a romantic poet, politician and revolutionary
-Byron doesn’t use traditional imagery, he uses nature and night imagery

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What are three contextual points for Valentine

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-Duffy is a contemporary Scottish poet and former poet laureate
-Her writing explored ideas about gender, oppression and sexuality
-She is openly part of the LGBTQ+ community
-Valentine was first written in 1993 when a radio station asked Duffy to write a poem for Valentine’s Day

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Who wrote Valentine?

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Carol Ann Duffy

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Wrote Sonnet 43?

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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What are three contextual points for Sonnet 43?

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-Browning was born in 1806 and died in 1861
-She was devoutly Christian
-She was ill and frail most of her life
-She endured a very troubled relationship with her father, who threatened to disown her if she married Robert Browning
-so they communicated in secret and this was the 43rd sonnet she wrote for him

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Who wrote Cozy Apologia?

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Rita Dove

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What are three contextual points for Cozy Apologia?

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-Dove was born in 1952
-She is a contemporary American poet and a former US poet Laureate
-Cozy Apologia is an auto-biographical poem
-Hurricane Floyd hit the US East coast in 1999

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What are three key quotes from The Manhunt

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“The frozen river which ran through his face”
“The foetus of metal beneath his chest”
“To a sweating unexploded mine buried deep in his mind”

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What is important about the structure of The Manhunt

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The rhyme scheme falls apart throughout the poem, but there is a half-rhyme at the end showing he is beginning to heal

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What are three key quotations form Sonnet 43

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“I shall but love thee better after death”
“How do i love thee? Let me count the ways”
“With all my lost saints”

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What are three key quotations form The Soldier

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“If i should die, think only this of me”
“Under an English heaven”
“A dust whom England bore”

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What is important about the structure of The Soldier

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It’s almost a perfect sonnet showing how perfect he thinks England is and how the poem is talking about his love for his country

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What is important about the structure of The Soldier

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It’s almost a perfect sonnet showing how perfect he thinks England is

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What are three key quotations from She Walks in Beauty

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“Of cloudless climes and starry nights”
“Best of dark and bright”
“A heart whose love is innocent”

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What are three key quotations from Cozy Apologia

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“Oddly male: Big Bad Floyd”
“Astride a dappled mare”
“I could pick anything and think of you”

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What is important about the structure of Cozy Apologia

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Perfect rhyming couplets in stanza 1 suggest traditional love

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What are three key quotations in Valentine

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“Not a red rose or a satin heart”
“It is a moon wrapped in brown paper”
“I give you an onion”

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What are three key quotes from A Wife in London

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“She sits in the tawny vapour”
“Like a warning taper”
“Whom the worm now knows”

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What is important about the structure of A Wife in London

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The poem is split into two parts showing the two sides to the women’s story

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What are three key quotes form To Autumn

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“Thou watches the last oozing hours by hours”
“Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies”
“Close bosom-friend”

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What is important about the structure of To Autumn

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Each stanza in the poem represents a different stage in Autumn - beginning, middle and end

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What are three key quotes for Dulce at Decorum est

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“Men marched asleep”
“As under a green sea, I saw him drowning”
“Drunk with fatigue”

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What is important about the structure of Dulce et Decorum Est

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There is an ABABCDCD rhyme scheme which represents the soldiers marching

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What are three key quotes about Mametz Wood

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“In the boots that outlasted them”
“A chit of bone, the china plate of a shoulder blade”
“A broken mosaic of bone linked arm in arm”

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What is important about the structure of Mametz Wood

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There are three line stanzas which creates a broken and unbalanced structure

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What are three key quotes from The Prelude

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“I heeded not the summons”
“Meanwhile, the precipices rang aloud”
“The orange sky of evening died away”

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