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(5) Which Poems cover Romanticism?

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Excerpt from the prelude (Wordsworth), She walks in beauty (Lord Byron), Ozymandias (Percy Shelley), London (William Blake), Sonnet 43 (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)

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What did romantic poets believe in?

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  • That nature and love are more important than truth and reason
  • Preoccupied with nature and emotions
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Give two Romantic ideas/statements related to the movement:

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  • The ideal man is an artist or poet as he brings nature to people’s attention
  • Beauty in nature should be shocking - mixing fear with fascination
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(8) Which poems cover love?

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Living space (Dharker - Community), death of a naturalist (Heaney), excerpt from the prelude (Wordsworth), As imperceptibly as grief (Dickinson), She walks in beauty (Byron), sonnet 43 (Elizabeth Barrett Browning), Valentine (Duffy), Cozy apologia (Dove)

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What elements of love can be explored?

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  • love is an abstract noun
  • love can change, adapt and disappear
  • Love causes happiness and pain
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(8) Which poems are covered by war and conflict?

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London (Blake), Ozymandias (Shelly), Living space (Dharker), A wife in London (Hardy), The manhunt (Armitage), The soldier (Brookes), Dulce et Decorum Est (Owen), Mametz wood (shears)

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What elements of War and conflict can you explore?

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  • Propaganda used to persuade men to go to war
  • The brutality of war - PTSD
  • The government powers (Ozymandias)
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What are the two main themes?

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Love and War

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Death of a Naturalist (1) -

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  • the flax-dam festered in the heart of in the heart of the townland
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Death of a Naturalist (2) -

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  • warm thick slobber of frogspawn that grew like clotted water
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Death of a Naturalist (3) -

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jampotfuls of the jellied specks to range on window sills at home

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Death of a Naturalist (4) -

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Miss Walls would tell us… how the mammy frogs laid hundreds of little eggs and this was frogspawn

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Death of a Naturalist (5) -

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Poised like mud grenades

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Who wrote Death of a naturalist?

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Seamus Heaney

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What themes does Death of a Naturalist cover?

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Nature and War

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Excerpt from the Prelude (1)

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Excerpt (small part)

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Excerpt from the Prelude (2)

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I heeded not the summons - happy times

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Excerpt from the Prelude (3)

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woodland pleasures, the resounding horn, the loud pack bellowing, and the hunted Hare

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Excerpt from the Prelude (4)

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not a voice was idle

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Excerpt from the Prelude (5)

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the distant hills

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Who wrote Excerpt from the prelude?

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William Wordsworth

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What is the main theme covered in Excerpt from the prelude?

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Nature

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To Autumn (1)

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season of mists and mellow fruitfulness

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To Autumn (2)

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o’er brimm’d their clammy cells

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To Autumn (3)
fume of poppies
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To Autumn (4)
where are the songs of spring?
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To Autumn (5)
- full grown lambs - hedge crickets - gathering swallows
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Who wrote To Autumn?
John Keats
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What are the main themes covered in To Autumn?
Nature and wonder/fragility of life
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Hawk Roosting ()
I sit in the top of the wood
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Hawk Roosting ()
earth's face up for my inspection
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Hawk Roosting ()
I took the whole of creation
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Hawk Roosting ()
My manners are tearing off heads
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Hawk Roosting ()
The sun is behind me
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Who wrote Hawk Roosting?
Ted Hughes
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What are the main themes in Hawk Roosting?
Nature, Power and leadership
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As imperceptibly as Grief (1)
as grief (collective grief of America) - civil war
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As imperceptibly as Grief (2)
Summer lapsed away
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As imperceptibly as Grief (3)
Twilight long begun
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As imperceptibly as Grief (4)
Grace
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As imperceptibly as Grief (5)
Keel
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Who wrote As imperceptibly as Grief?
Emily Dickinson
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What is the main theme in As imperceptibly as Grief?
Death/Passing of Time
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She walks in beauty (1)
She walks in beauty - cousin in mourning
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She walks in beauty (2)
aspect and her eyes - womaniser
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She walks in beauty (3)
raven tress - an omen of bad luck
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She walks in beauty (4)
so soft, so calm yet eloquent - objectification
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She walks in beauty (5)
a heart whose love is innocent - take innocents? assumptions
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Who wrote She walks in beauty?
Lord Byron
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She walks in beauty main theme:
Love/gender inequality
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Valentine (1)
not a red rose or a satin heart
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Valentine (2)
an onion
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Valentine (3)
blind you with tears
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Valentine (4)
platinum loops shrink to a wedding ring
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Valentine (5)
cling to your fingers, cling to your knife
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Valentine main theme:
Love/against tradition
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Who wrote Valentine?
Carol Ann Duffy
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Cozy Apologia (1)
Cozy apologia - Fred viebahn - taking time to appreciate him
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Cozy Apologia (2)
my pen exudes, drying matt upon the page
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Cozy Apologia (3)
chain mail glinting
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Cozy Apologia (4)
sweet with dark and hollow centres - previous relationships
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Cozy Apologia (5)
Floyd's - Hurricane - previous relationships
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Cozy Apologia main themes:
Love/life
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Who wrote Cozy apologia?
Rita Dove
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Afternoons (1)
summer is fading - he focused on the negative
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Afternoons (2)
young mothers assemble
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Afternoons (3)
Our wedding, lying - love forgotten when you have kids
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Afternoons (4)
the lovers are all in school
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Afternoons (5)
unripe acorns, expect to be taken home - children are carefree
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Afternoons main themes:
Life/Children
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Who wrote Afternoons?
Philip Larkin
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London (1)
Charter'd streets ... Charter'd Thames - man taking over nature
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London (2)
In every cry - the brink of disaster (Crowds)
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London (3)
blackning church appalls - religion forced
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London (4)
soldiers sigh runs in blood down palace walls
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London (5)
youthful harlots curse
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London main themes:
romanticism/antiestablishment
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Who wrote London?
William Blake
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Living space (1)
Living space - not home
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Living space (2)
not enough straight lines - materialistic and confined
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Living space (3)
the miraculous - hope is important
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Living space (4)
eggs in a wire basket - trapped
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Living space (5)
slanted universe - wider comment - little intervention by government
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Living space main theme:
anti-globalistion
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Who wrote Living space?
Imtiaz Dharker
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Ozymandias (1)
I met a traveller from an antique land
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Ozymandias (2)
Ozymandias - based on a pharaoh who despised his people
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Ozymandias (3)
Sculptor well those passions read - the skill of the artist, not the leader
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Ozymandias (4)
king of kings - supremacy
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Ozymandias main themes:
Dictatorship/power
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Who wrote Ozymandias?
Percy Shelley
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A wife in London (1)
A wife - social position (Boer War)
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A wife in London (2)
Tragedy
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A wife in London (3)
Tawny Vapour - fog
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A wife in London (4)
Irony - emphasis on distance
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A wife in London (5)
home planned jaunts
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A wife in London main themes:
war/love/tragedy
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who wrote A wife in London?
Thomas Hardy
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The Manhunt (1)
After the first phase, after passionate nights and intimate days - injuries of Eddie - Bosnia Mission 21st Century
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The Manhunt (2)
a frozen river which ran through his face - gunshot wound
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The Manhunt (3)
feel the hurt of his grazed heart - PTSD
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The Manhunt (4)
unexploded mine buried deep in his mind
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The Manhunt (5)
Then and only then did I get close - trying to empathise
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Who wrote The Manhunt?
Simon Armitage
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The Manhunt main themes:
war/loss/love/injury
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The soldier (1)
The soldier - appeal to young men - when innocent
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The soldier (2)
whom England bore, shaped, made aware - personifying England as a motherly figure
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The soldier (3)
all evil shed away - (WW1) dying is okay as it is glorious
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The soldier (4)
laughter learnt of friends and gentleness - appeals to nature of young men
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The soldier (5)
English heaven - death is a certainty
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The soldier main themes:
Propaganda/glorification of war
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Who wrote The soldier?
Rupert Brookes
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Dulce et Decorum Est (1)
like old beggars under sacks - good to bad life
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Dulce et Decorum Est (2)
Drunk with fatigue - carried on regardless
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Dulce et Decorum Est (3)
Gas! Gas! Quick Boys! - gas - sibilance = spreading of disease, gas and death
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Dulce et Decorum Est (4)
a wagon that we flung him in - men objectified
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Dulce et Decorum Est (5)
Dulce et Decorum est Pro Patria Mori - Propaganda - glorification of death
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Dulce et Decorum Est main themes:
War/death
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Who wrote Dulce et Decorum Est?
Wilfred Owen
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Mametz Wood (1)
years afterwards farmers found him - forgotten
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Mametz Wood (2)
broken birds egg of a skull - machinery vs Welshmen
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Mametz Wood (3)
were told to walk, not run - incompetence of officers
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Mametz Wood (4)
Earth stands sentinel - guarding men yet to be dug up -guarding memories
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Mametz Wood main themes:
War/Obsession/Death
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Who wrote Mametz Wood?
Owen Shears
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Mametz Wood (5)
absent tongues - ability to express emotion or ideas is lost

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