context (poetry) Flashcards
Ozymandias context
Percy Shelley - romantic poet
Rameses II
in greek ozymandias means the ruler of nothing
London Context
William Blake - Romantic Poet, loved ideas of nature and life
believed in equality and questioned/was critical about churches teachings
wrote multiple poems about corrupted society
disliked how the industrial revolution brought change and corruption and despair and misery
Prelude context
William Wordsworth - victorian era, disliked industrial revolution, wrote a poem about man vs nature
lived in lake district, autobiographical poem, believed nature had a moral hold on him
My Last Duchess Context
Robert Browning - romantic poet, fascinated with italian renaissance
USE OF DRAMATIC MONOLOGUE
based on 16th century Duke Alfonzo II of Italy
COTLB context
Alfred Lord Tennyson - poet Laureate, couldnt write against country or crown
Crimean War - victorian military values ‘service at all costs’
First ‘media war’ where journalists published events
Exposure Context
Wilfred Owen - WW1, shows reality and monotony of war, compared to the lies fed by propaganda
helpless feelings of boredom and he suffered from shell shock
no progress in war, movement of poem is also circular and repetitive
Storm on The Island Context
Seamus Heaney - lived through the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
many killed during terrorist attacks
Stormont - parliamentary building
Bayonet Charge context
Ted Hughes - fascinated by WW1 through experiences of father and uncle
Remains context
Simon Armitage - from a collection of poems called The Not Dead whicb looks at effect of war on soldiers
based o. British soldier who served in Iraq
Poppies context
Jane Weir - modern 2009 poem, wrote from perspective of a mother, Jane relates to this and imagines the feelings she would feel if sons went to war
War Photographer context
Carol Ann Duffy - had a photographer friend and wants audience to know the dangers of war and psychological impacts and severity of war.
western society is desensitised and detached, don’t appreciate full story behind war
Emigree context
Carol Rumens - poem about communism in Eastern Europe, many had to flee their homes due to safety
Checking Out Me History Context
John Agard - challenges british history system and education system
2007 poem, modern
angry he wasnt taucht his own carribean roots and cultures who should be celebrated, does not know his own identity
Kamikaze context
Beatrice Garland - Kamikaze pilots specially trained japanese pilots
used especially towards the end of WW2
it was a great honour to serve country in such way
