poetry context Flashcards
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A Child to his Sick Grandfather JOANNA BAILLIE
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- early Romantic - emotional
- women’s voice - at a rare time for female poets
- father died when she was 16 - faced death at a young age
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A complaint WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
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- suggested that Wordsworth wrote about his friend who had moved from England (sad he left)
- before Romantic - laid foundations for it by emotional writing
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My Last Duchess ROBERT BROWNING
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- Based on Duke Alfonso + his wife
- based on a real story
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Valentine CAROL ANN DUFFY
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- Duffy was the first female poet laureate
- specialises in monologues with a focus on feminism
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One flesh ELIZABETH JENNINGS
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- Jennings was a devout Roman Catholic
- belief of not divorcing and staying together in unhappiness
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i wanna be yours JOHN COOPER CLARKE
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-punk poet
- set to music by Arctic Monkeys
- kitchen sink drama - about daily life eg vacuum cleaner
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La Belle Dame Sans Merci JOHN KEATS
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- romantic poet - dealt with emotion and sentiment
- ballad - intended to be sung - 4 line stanzas with a story and some rep
- mocks chivalric code of how men are meant to behave - a knight falls at mercy of a woman (doesn’t save her)
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She Walks in Beauty LORD BYRON
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- famous for having lots of lovers
- romantic poet
- lyrical poem - set to music
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Neutral Tones THOMAS HARDY
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- influenced by Romantics and Dickens (about social change)
- often wrote about disappointment in love and life
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Sonnet 43 ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
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- written for her husband - about true love
- Petrarchan sonnet
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Nettles VERNON SCANNELL
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- served in WW1
- 2 of his kids died
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1st Date - She 1st Date - He WENDY COPE
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- known for humour
- uses strict rhyme / structure forms
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Love’s Dog - JEN HADFIELD
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- response to another poem (View of things) that says ‘what i hate about love is it’s dog’ - similar as air uses anaphora
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The Manhunt - SIMON ARMITAGE
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- about injured man in war and the physical / mental affect of this on his wife
- poet laureate
- written for a documentary on the impact of war on soldiers who had returned home
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My Father Would Not Show Us - INGRID DE KOK
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- grew up in South Africa under apartheid
- writes about universal experience of loss - having family view the body before burial is common practice
