CONTEXT Flashcards
1
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London context
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-industrial revolution; poverty, disease, malnutrition
-patriarchal lack of women rights
-high corruption, oppression
-written when he was 37; poem of experience, not innocence
-romantic poet
-written around the time of the FRENCH REVOLUTION= could be inspired by, and suggesting he wants similar action (overthrow gov)
2
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romantic poetry definition
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-hated power imbalances
-hated corruption
-hated organised religion
-hated people in power
-wanted to rebel
3
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ozymandias context
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-about ramesses ii
-written shortly after british acquisition of fragment of statue of ramesses ii
4
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remains context
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-war in Iraq
-personal experience of trauma, PTSD
