Context

Question 1

Ozymandias context

Answer 1

Shelly romantic poet

Heard about Italians explorer has retrieved the statue from desert

Question 2

London context

Answer 2

Blake doesn’t like marriage
People died of sti
Believed in social and racial equality

Question 3

Prelude context

Answer 3

Personal experience

Question 4

Duchess context

Answer 4

Fascinated by Italian renaissance- period where arts flourished

Question 5

Remains

Answer 5

Poem taken from collection called not dead- inspired by channel 4 documentary about poems of survivors.
Poet said return in body but never wholly in mind.

Question 6

Poppies

Answer 6

Textile designer- used imagery and links to present mothers sorrow

Question 7

Emigree

Answer 7

Born in London so imagined experience so intentionally ambiguous- makes story relatable

Question 8

Bayonet charge

Answer 8

Father survived in world war 1- pocket book deflected bullet
Mechanic in raf before uni
Based on ww1 battle

Question 9

Exposure

Answer 9

Killed in battle

Angry at wars waste of life and horrific condition

Question 10

Storm on the island

Answer 10

Often wrote about childhood nature and his homeland

Question 11

Kamikaze

Answer 11

“I spend a lot of the day listening to other people’s worlds”.
Japanese pilots