Context Flashcards

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Context of Sonnet 43?

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  • Poem was popular as it referred to religion and God.
  • Anonymously published.
  • About her husband, whom she eloped with in 1846.
  • Between 1844 and 1846 she and Robert wrote 847 letters to one another.
  • When she eloped she was disinherited.
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Context of The Soldier?

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  • Written in 1914 before the war, when young boys were excited to serve in the army.
  • Brooke died in 1915 of sepsis and never had to fight on the front line.
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Context of She Walks in Beauty?

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  • The poem is about the first time Byron sees his cousin.
  • Byron had a notorious reputation of wild behaviour, there were rumours of domestic abuse, and affairs with both men and women circulating around him.
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Context of Dulce et Decorum Est?

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  • Written by Owen in the Craiglockhart War Hospital in 1917.
  • Owen was an officer in WW1 who fought on the front line.
  • One of his experiences was spending serval days in a hole with a dead officer.
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Context of To Autumn?

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  • Keats initially trained as a surgeon but gave it up to write poetry.
  • Keats died in 1821 aged just 25.
  • Keats wrote ‘To Autumn’ after being inspired by a walk he had taken through the countryside.
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Context of Mametz Wood

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  • The Welsh soldiers at Mametz Wood were told to WALK into the fire of the German soldiers. It was one of the many battles of the Battle of the Somme.
  • Sheers is Welsh and wanted the soldiers to be appreciated.
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Context of London

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  • Written in Victorian London, a place full of prostitution, drugs and social class divides.
  • Blake had a pessimistic view on the world and emphasised this in his poems.
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Context of Living Space

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This poems is about the Mumbai slums and how people have managed to live there in very poor conditions.

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