Poetry Context Flashcards
The Manhunt- Context
Simon Armitage
Never fought in a war
2008 collection called The Not Dead.
Poor Veteran treatment
Eddie Beddows- Bosnian war-1993
Read by Laura Beddows
The soldier- context
Rupert Brooke
Cambridge
Navy-no action
Idealistic poem
Winston Churchhill admired it’s selfless patriotism.
Mametz Wood- context
Owen Sheers
Never experienced war
This was a 1916 conflict in Mametz ,part of a wider offensive known as the Battle of the Somme.
Soldier told to walk, not run by Haig
Welsh battalion-4000 men died.
Excerpt from the prelude- context
Wordsworth -
First generation of English Romantic poets.
Part of his autobiographical prelude poem
He believed Nature had a darker side- the sublime
During Industrial revolution
Valentine- context
Duffy
Poet Laurete
Roman Catholic education
Response to a challenge from a radio presenter who asked her to write an original poem for Valentine’s Day.
Controversial love affair with the poet Adrian Henri many years her senior.
To autumn- context
John keats
Keats was a liberal
Rejected urban sophistication,(industrial revolution)
Was a doctor
Dying of TB
Romatic Poet
She walks in beauty- context
Lord Byron
English Romantic poet
Collection of poems called Hebrew Melodies
About his cousins wife
Known for scandalous affairs
Living Space- context
Imtiaz Dharker lives in Britain,grew up in Pakistan
26% residents have access to clean water.
Dharavi slums in mumbai
Hawk Roosting- context
Ted Hughes
Second world war as a teen
poet Laurete
Rural Yorkshire
Airforce
As imperceptably as grief- context
Emily Dickinson
Led a very reclusive life.
After her death, her sister discovered a box containing volumes of her poetry.
Questioned spirituality
Could be about Charles Wadsworth, an older, married preacher.
Cozy Apologia- context
Rita Dove set against the arrival of Hurricane Floyd, a powerful storm.
Pulitzer Prize
UoV Lecturer
Her poem seems to be a apology for the domestic comfort and ordinary contentment she feels, as others face danger in the path of the hurricane, but she relishes this moment to be with her husband.
Death of a Naturalist- Context
Seamus Heaney
Nobel Prize
Political instability in ireland
Strong roman Catholic
Turned down offer to win a Nobel Prize in Liturature as it was an English one - strong patriotism
Grew up on a farm
Ozymandais-context
Percy Bysshe Shelley- Romantic poet .
Radical thinker
Hated monarchical government
He wrote a famous poem called The Mask of Anarchy
Rameses 3
