Poetry Flashcards
(22 cards)
The Death of a Naturalist
Start Quote :D
All Year the Flexdam Festered in the Heart
The Death of a Naturalist
Middle Quote :D
For they were Yellow in the Sun and Brown in the Rain
The Death of a Naturalist
End Quote :D
That if I Dipped my Hand the Spawn would Clutch it
Manhunt
Start Quote :D
Only then Would he let me Trace the Frozen River which ran through his Face
Manhunt
Middle Quote :D
The Parachute Silk of his Punctured Lung
Manhunt
End Quote :D
Then, and only then, did I come close
Context:
Mammetz Wood
- Welsh Poet
- Real Place in France
- The Battle of Somme in 1916
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Dulce et Decorum Est
- Known for Horrific Imagery
- Written as a Direct Reply to Jessie Pope
- Published Posthumously (After Death)
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A Wife in London
- The Boer War (1899-1902)
- Was Against War
- Britain Lost Numbers (Unprepared)
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Cozy Apologia
- A Tribute to her Husband Fred
- Reflects on her Relationship
- Hurricane Floyd Hit the Coast of the USA in 1999
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Valentine
- Scottish Poet
- Was Poet Laureate
- LGBT
- Challenges Stereotypes
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To Autumn
- Ode
- Diagnosed with TB (Poem Reflects Feelings)
- Death at 25
- Romantic Poet
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Afternoons
- Born in Coventry
- Never Married
- Famous for Celebrating the Ordinary
- Offered Poet Laureate (Declined it)
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The Prelude
- Taken from a Bigger Poem
- Autobiographical
- Influential Romantic Poet
- Happy Memories before Parents Death
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Sonnet 43
- Victorian Poet
- Had a Life-long Illness
- Dedicated to her Husband
- Published Poems in Portuguese
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She Walks in Beauty
- Wrote about his Cousins Wife
- Known as Ladies Man
- Romantic Poet
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Living Space
- Born in Pakistan, Raised in Scotland
- She wants to Challenge what she sees in the World Through Poetry
- Slums in Mumbai
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Manhunt
- Current Poet Laureate
- About Bosnian Crisis
- About Laura (Laura’s Story)
- Used in a Channel 4 Documentary
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Death of a Naturalist
- Irish Poet
- Influenced by Nature
- Brother Died at 4 (he was 12)
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As Imperceptibly as Grief
- Became a Recluse
- Rarely went out after 1865
- Poems Inspired by Nature
- Born in USA
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The Soldier
- Never Went to War
- Commissioned into the Royal Naval Division
- Died from a Mosquito Bite
- Buried in an Olive Grove on the Greek Island of Skyros
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London
- Published 1794
- Very Religious (Didn’t like the Church)
- Lived and Worked in London
- During Industrial Revolution
