Context Flashcards
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Context for the Manhunt
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- Bosnian war
Eddie beddoee and wife Laura
blazan poetry (used to describe lovers body)
2
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Author of the manhunt
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Simon Armitage
3
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Sonnet 43 context
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- Brother drowned when she was 32
Sonnet associated with traditional love poetry
4
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Author of Sonnet 43
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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London Context
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- Industrial Revolution, children working
- prostitution, syphilis
6
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Author of London
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William Blake
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The soldier context
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- Georgian poetry presents English country side as paradise (romanticized view)
- Christian
- poem contrasts with other WW1 poets with his notion of the noble sacrifice
8
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The soldier author
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Rupert Brooke
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She walks in beauty context
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- romanticism— nature over reason
- courtly love (put woman on a pedestal)
10
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She walks in beauty author
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Lord Byron
11
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Living space context
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- Mumbai slums in India
- million people in poverty as a community
12
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Living space author
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Imtiaz Dharker
13
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As imperceptibly as grief context
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- influenced by bible and romantic poets
- reclusive domestic
- her house overlooked a graveyard
- didn’t like guests
14
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As imperceptibility as grief author
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Emily Dickinson
15
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Cozy Apologia context
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- hurricane Floyd
- Technical modernity
16
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Cozy apologia author
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Rita Dove
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Valentine context
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- radical
- Modern POV on love
- not traditional love poetry
Material capitalist culture rejected for domestic imagery
18
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Valentine author
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Carol Ann Duffy
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A weasel in London context
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- boer war
- hardy writes novels (form)
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A wife in London author
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Thomas Hardy
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Death of a naturalist context
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- Irish poet connects landscape with personal memories
- post romantic response to nature
22
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Death of a naturalist author
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Seamus Heaney
23
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Hawk roosting context
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- recognizing nature as transcending reason
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Hawk roosting author
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Ted Hughes
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To autumn context
- romanticism
- Ancient Greek
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To autumn author
John Keats
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Afternoons context
- 1950
- pesemistic POV
- writing poem post war
- Larkin writes about ordinary things
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Afternoons author
Philip Larkin
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Dulce eat decorum est context
- WW1 suffering in a chlorine gas attack
- Opposite of properganda war poets (Jessie pope)
-“it is sweet and right”
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Dulce eat Decorum Est author
Wilfred Owen
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Ozymandias context
- Shelly is a political romantic poet
- Ozymandias comes out of French Revolution
- British imperialism (empire)
32
Ozymandias author
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Mametz wood context
- welsh poet vistits sight of slaughtered welsh soldiers in WW1 Somme battle field
- agricultural and mining
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Mametz wood author
Owen Sheers
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The prelude context
- romanticism— the sublime
- iceskating was new fashion, but people romanticised it into escape of solitude
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The prelude author
William Wordsworth
