Poetry- Who What Where When Flashcards
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Who, What, Where, When
The Manhunt
Simon Armitage
A soldier and his wife. At home. Return from Bosnia War- 1990’s.
Soldiers wife explores his physical injuries and tries to help him heal mentally.
Why
The Manhunt
Simon Armitage
Highlight the struggles soldiers go through both physically and mentally and the destructive nature war can have on a relationship.
Who, What, Where, When
Sonnet 43
Elizabeth Browning
E.Browning. Italy. Before marriage and after marriage in Italy. The way she feels about her love for R.Browning.
The pain she feels about her father.
Why
Sonnet 43
Elizabeth Browning
Demonstrate her Admiration of her partner/husband.
Love will help her get past her sadness and help her heal.
Who, What, Where, When
London
William Blake
William Blake, the poor. London. 1794/Industrial Revolution.
Misery and suffering of the poor in London.
Who is to blame (church, palace, governments)
Why
London
William Blake
Angry at the way institutions exploit the poor.
Poverty is a cycle which needs to be broken.
Wants social equality.
Who, What, Where, When
The Soldier
Rupert Brooke
A soldier. Foreign feild. 1914 -WWI.
A soldier fighting and dying in combat for his country- Patriotic.
Why
The Soldier
Rupert Brooke
To express how honourable it is to fight and die for your country.
Who, What, Where, When
She walks in beauty
Lord Byron
A woman(maybe cousin’s wife), Byron. Party. Night 1814.
He finds her instantly attractive- looks.
Wonders about her inner beauty- personality.
Why
She walks in beauty
Lord Byron
Express how this woman has changes his views and beliefs on women.
Beauty is skin deep and you shouldn’t focus just on the outside.
Who, what, where, when
Living Space
Imtiaz Dharker
Poor in the slums. Mumbai slums. Modern day.
Housing of poor and the conditions they are forced to live in.
Lives are fragile.
Why
Living Space
Imtiaz Dharker
To highlight the plight of the poor. Their existence is a miracle. Human life is fragile.
Who, what, where, when
A Imperceptibly as Grief
Emily Dickinson
Dickenson. In her life/mind/home. All the time after her several losses.
Her grief/loss over time.
Her fear of death.
Why
As Imperceptinly as Grief
Emily Dickinson
Time can heal and you won’t always be consumed with grief.
Grief can close you off and make you feel like you dont exist/want to exist.
Who, what, where, when
Cozy Apologia
Rita Dove
Fred Dove and herself. House(in their seperate studies as they are writers). Hurricane Floyd (1999)-Present day/looks back at her past.
Exploring and justifying her love for Fred. Reflects on all of her past loves.
Embarassed to be so happy and content.
Why
Cozy Apologia
Rita Dove
Fred has made her feel complete/happy.
Love does not have to be perfect.
Embarassed about her love for him.
Who, what, where, when
Valentine
Carol Ann Duffy
Persona. Anyones life. Modern day.
How love can be troubled and relationships can badly.
Why
Valentine
Cartol Ann Duffy
Criticise the commercialisation of love on Valentine’s day.
Love can damage you/is painful.
To show the real side of love.
Who, what, where, when
A Wife in London
Thomas Hardy
Soldier/Husband and Wife. Home-London, Far south land-South Africa. 1899- Boer war.
Soldier away fighting in Boer War 1899.
Soldier’s Death.
Wife waiting for letter’s/news from him.
Why
A Wife in London
Thomas Hardy
Hardy was antiwar- war in his view was futile/pointless
War is destructive.
Who, What, Where, When
Death of a Naturalist
Seamus Heaney
Heaney. Countryside-flax dam. Summer-childhood.
Growing up and being fascinated by nature as a child.
Why
Death of a Naturalist
Seamus Heaney
Children are innocent and have a fascination with nature but lose that when adulthood brings responsibilites/maturity and new insights into life.
Who, what, where, when
Hawk Roosting
Ted Hughes
Hawk. Woodland. Continuance of nature- evolution.
Hawk’s power- perfection of a creation.
Control/arrogance
Why
Hawk Roosting
Ted Hughes
To portray nature as all powerful and eternal in comparison so mankind which is not.
Who, what, where, when
To Autumn
John Keats
Autumn. fields/countryside. Autumn.
Joys that autumn brings. Admiration of Autumn and the growth and harvest of plants.
Why
To Autumn
John Keats
Loves Autumn and the natural environment.
Romantic poet- Fascination
To show the the admiration we should have of the natural world
Who, what, where, when
Afternoons
Philip Larkin
Husband and wife. Park, home. Gradual change in time.
A husband and wife whose relationship has now changed because they have had children creating a loss of independence and distance between them
Why
Afternoons
Philip Larkin
To show how marriage and having kids steals your freedom.
Who, what, where, when
Dulce et Decorum est
Wilfred Owen
WWI soldier/Owen. Somme-France. WWI.
Effects of war- zooms in on a gas attack and the horrors the soldier(s) experienced.
why
Dulce et Decorum est
Wilfred Owen
To reveal the horrors of war/reality to warn others interested in signing up.
To show how war should not be glorified.
Doesn’t approve and believes it isn’t patriotic to die for ones country.
Who, What, Where, When
Ozymandias
Percy B Shelley
Rameses II, traveler. Egypt. 13th century BC, Narrator: 1800’s.
About The Pharoah’s love for himself.
What the narrator discovered: decayed statue.
Why
Ozymandias
Percy B Shelley
Power win’t last forever- fleeting.
The statue was decayed by sand/nature shyowing how nature will overpower mankind and how mankind is temporary and nature is eternal.
Who, what, where, when
Mametz Wood
Owen Sheers
Welsh Soldiers, farmers in France. Fields of France- mametz wood. 1916- Somme, Modern Day.
Ploughed up/dug up battlefield —> Soldier’s remains.
Why
Mametz wood
Owen Sheers
Voice to those silent, unknown skeletons- highlight their bravery- never forgotten sacrifice.
Who, What, Where, When
The Prelude
William Wordsworth
Wordsworth. Lake District. Winter 6 pm.
A time when he was a child ice skating- youth + innocence.
Happiness in his natural environment.
Why
The Prelude
William Wordsworth
Understand what his childhood was like before he matured and moved into adulthood. Looking back on his past.
As our life progresses, we change as people.
