3rd Year Poems Context Flashcards
Cozy apologia
American Poet Rita dove
Domestic life as writers
Hurricane Floyd, powerful storm hot east coast in 1999, supports the autobiographical poem
Love poem
Affectionate poem to her husband
She walks in beauty
British romantic poet and politician , Lord Byron
Published in 1815
Educated at Cambridge and harrow
Had an affair with his half sister
He lived and worked across Europe, mostly in Italy
Later fought in a Greek war of independence
Died fighting, still being an influential figure after
Valentine
Carol ann Duffy, Scottish playwright and poet
She is gay
Writes about love loss and death
Sonnet 43
Elizabeth Barrett browning (1806-1861)
Married Robert browning against her fathers will, they settled in Florence
Most sonnets she wrote were dedicated to her husband
She suffered from many heath problems when she was young
—> this is why many of her sonnets explore transience
She was able to create a persona which is not threatened by inevitability of death and mortality
The soldier
Rupert Brooke was an English poet who lived from 1887 to 1915.
He attended Cambridge University
He joined the English Navy during the first year of the First World War (1914).
he died the following year—not in warfare
Dulce et Decorum Est
Wilfred Owen
Owen wrote nearly all of his mature poems between August 1917 and September 1918
Suffered from shell shock
Fought in world war 1
While hospitalized, Owen formed a friendship with the established poet Siegfried Sassoon.
The manhunt
Simon armitage (1964-)
He is a play-write and novelist as well as a poet
He attended university of Manchester aswell as studying in Portsmouth
Published 2008
Bosniasn war, begun in 1993
Mametz wood
Owen sheers- born in 1974
WW1 poem
British poet who also works as a TV presenter, playwright, and anthologist
Engages with the natural world
A wife in London
Thomas hardy - born in1840
Victorian era
Anti war poet
Boer war (1899-1902)
60,000 people died
