Poets, Dates and context

Question 1

Dulce et decorum est poet and date

Answer 1

Wilfred Owen

1917

Question 2

Living Space poet and date

Answer 2

Imtiaz Dharker
1994

• born in Pakistan but now lives in GB and India
• describes a typical dwelling place of a slum in Mumbai

Question 3

London poet and date

Answer 3

William Blake
1794

• came from a humble background
• had radical political views shaped by the French Revolution

Question 4

She walks in beauty poet and date

Answer 4

Lord Byron
1814

• an english poet described as mad, bad and dangerous to know
• said to be about his cousin’s wife that he met at a party

Question 5

Hawk roosting poet and date

Answer 5

Ted Hughes
1960

• british poet who made his name for poems about nature, especially about animals
• some critics view it as an allegory for human nature -> extreme arrogance or hubris

Question 6

A wife in London poet and date

Answer 6

Thomas Hardy
1899

• Boer war (distant war so many thought it was unnecessary and a waste of life)
• many men needlessly died of diseases like enteric fever
• she could have been any one of the number of wives left behind

Question 7

To autumn poet and date

Answer 7

John Keats
1819

• romantic poet who relished the beauty of nature
• he rejected urban sophistication, the wealthy and the upper classes
• addresses Autumn as if it were a person, however the goddess he describes is an ordinary peasant woman not a powerful deity.
• had nursed his brother through his death so knew he was dying with the same disease when he was writing this
• trained doctor
• the last stanza captures his hope for an easy passing