Simple Authors, Dates, Context, Structure Flashcards
Manhunt
Simon armitage
2007
Bosnia war
Couplets
Sonnet 43
Elizabeth Barrett browning
1850
Sonnet = love
London
William Blake
1789
Radical political views - class attack (on government + monarchy)
Iambic pentameter - relentless, unbroken misery
Soldier
Rupert Brooke
1914
War propaganda
Sonnet
She walks in beauty
Lord Byron
1814
Saw a woman at a party
Iambic pentameter - harmonious
Living space
Imtiaz dharker
1997
Slums in Mumbai
Unexpected line breaks - irregular lines (1st line)
As imperceptibly as grief
Emily Dickinson
1880
She was often lonely at home
Cozy apologia
Rita dove
2004
For her husband, during a hurricane
Stanzas run over - stream of consciousness - hurricane that doesn’t stop
Valentine
Carol ann Duffy
1993
Lesbian - unconventional relationship = unconventional love
One sided convo = relationship
Full stops= threatening
Wife in London
Thomas hardy
1899
Woman receiving news of her husbands death in war
2 sections = narrative
Death of a naturalist
Seamus Heaney
1966
Brother died when Heaney was 13 - loss of childhood
Volta - active participant to horrified observer
Hawk roosting
Ted hughes
1960
Consistent stanza - consistency in natural world
To autumn
John Keats
1819
3 stanzas - getting progressively closer to death - symbolising life
Afternoons
Philip Larkin
Late 1950s
Post war era - pessimistic outlook
Dulce et decorum est
Wilfred Owen
1918
Reality of being a soldier - highly romanticised
Double sonnet - ironic (not love)
ABAB - marching
Subverts iambic pentameter - subverts expectations of being soldier
Ozymandias
Percy bysshe Shelley
1818
Him and friend both write sonnets on ozymandias
Sonnet
Mametz wood
Owen sheers
2005
An attack (ww2) left 400 out of 700 men dead
Tercet - connected triplet (man were arm in arm when buried)
Excerpt from the prelude
William Wordsworth
1798
Skated as a child
Changes in tone - happy -> sad
