Context

Question 1

Context of Sonnet 43?

Answer 1

• 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.

Question 2

Context of The Soldier?

Answer 2

• 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.

Question 3

Context of She Walks in Beauty?

Answer 3

• 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.

Question 4

Context of Dulce et Decorum Est?

Answer 4

• 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.

Question 5

Context of To Autumn?

Answer 5

• 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.

Question 6

Context of Mametz Wood

Answer 6

• 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.

Question 7

Context of London

Answer 7

• 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.

Question 8

Context of Living Space

Answer 8

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