Context Flashcards
(15 cards)
Context of ozymandius
-part of romantic movement in response to industrial revolution
-mourning loss of spirituality, religion, nature, emotions
-based on real egyptian pharaoh Ramenes II who left statue with an arrogant inscription
-he used slave labour to build memorials of himself
Context of London
Blake initiated romantic movement
-he was poor and rejected materialism
-he was against organised religion and the monarchy
-he became disillusioned with religion and his poems spoke out against social injustice
“i must create a system or be enslaved by another man’s”
“damn the king. All soldiers are slaves”
-critical of industrial revolution
Context of Extract from, The Prelude
-died before he finished project (long poem about his childhood)
-romantic poet
-born in lake district, spent lots of time outside (family sitch)
-difficult childhood, troubled relationship with father
-both parents died young, sent to live w relatives w/o his siblings
-was treated horribly-considered suicide
Context of the charge of the light brigade
-poem is an elegy-tribute for the light brigade who passed away
-Battle of Balaclava-crimean war (1854
>misunderstood order caused 600 deaths of the light brigade
-news of disaster lead to first serious questioning of decisions made by commanders
-written in response to media outrage
Context of Exposure
-owen was a WWI soldier, was hit by a shell in 1917
-started writing poetry in hospital
-during this time, war waa glorified and all young boys longed to be soldiers -due to propaganda
-“Above all, I am not concerned with poetry. My subject is war and the pity of war”
Context of storm on the island
-heaney is a northern irish poet
-wrote about landscape and rural irish life
-grew up in farming community
-poem from collection called ‘Death of a Naturalist’ (1966)
-politicak conflict in NI in 196
-first 8 letters of title spell stormont-irish government building
-island &ireland pun
Context for Bayonet Charge
his father was a WWI soldier
Context of Remains
-‘The Not Dead’ collection (2008) based on testimonies of ex-soldiers from war in Iraq
-people started to oppose war as attack on Iraq was condemned as unnecessary & due to US oil greed
-poems helped to raise awareness of effects of war
Context of Poppies
-Lived in NI during the troubles
-2 sons
-textile designer
-Was requested to write this by Carol Ann Duffy
-to commemorate those lost in war
-‘Exit wounds’ collection came out of her reading the writing of women from 1st and 2nd world wars
Context of War Photographer
Duffy was friends with2 war photographers -Don McCulin, Philip Jones Griffiths
-western society is becoming increasingly desensitised to images
Context of Tissue
-part of ‘The Terrorist at my Table’ collection (2006) in the wake of islamophobia as a result of 9/11
-Dharker’s husband suffered with cancer for 11 years before dying from it
Context of the Emigrée
Born in London but lived in Belfast, Wales and travelled through russia and eastern europe
-writes about foreign customs, cultures, languages
-1993 collecion ‘Thinking of Skins’- political consciousness in Russia and East Europe
Context of Checking out me History
TOUISSANT L’OUVERTURE
-first black leader of Haitian revolution against french colonial war
-abolished slavery in Haiti
-turned it into an independent republic
MAROON-general term to describe black slaves who escaped from slavery
CARIBS & ARAWAKS-original inhabitants of west indies, before colombus ‘discovered them’
-born in 1949 to parents of mixed nationality
-he was told guyanese history began in 1492 when colombus discovered guyana
-from collection ‘Half-Caste and other poems’ -focused on culture & nationality
Context of Kamikaze
Kamikaze = divine wind, biblical connotations
-japanese suicide bombers
-during WW2, japanese kamikaze pilots flew planes filled with explosives into military targets
-soldiers were taught it was the onyl way to change the direction of the war
-kamikaze piltos named after typhoon that wiped out enemy ships
-japanese culture is honour-based
-From ‘The Invention of Fireworks’ (2014)
