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What is the Writer’s message in The Prelude?

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As you get older you realise there are bad things about the world and that your relationship with nature changes.

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What is the Writer’s message in To Autumn?

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Appreciate the beauty of nature while you can.

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What is the Writer’s message in She Walks in Beauty?

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True beauty is a combination of outward beauty and inner goodness of character.

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What is the Writer’s message in Valentine?

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Love can be painful and it comes in many different forms.

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What is the Writer’s message in Sonnet 43?

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Love and relationships can go beyond “ordinary love”.

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What is the Writer’s message in Cozy Apologia?

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There is nothing wrong with ordinary, safe ad cozy love and as long as your happy that’s ok.

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What is the writer’s message in Dulce et Decorum Est?

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Showing the reality of war and challenging the reality of war.

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What is the Writer’s message in The Soldier?

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How he thinks about war and his idealistic ideas about patriotism and war.

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What is the Writer’s message in A Wife in London?

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It’s not only the lives of the soldiers that are affected when someone dies at war.

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What is the Writer’s message in the Manhunt?

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Even though a soldier does not die at war there are some mental wounds that take longer to heal.

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What is the Writer’s message in Mametz Wood?

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We must not forget about the soldiers of the past and the ugliness of war.

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What are three contextual points about The Prelude?

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-William Wordsworth was born in 1770 and died in 1850
-He was an English poet who lived in the Lake District
-He had a distant relationship with his mother and his father died when he was 7
-He believed nature could be like a teacher/parent to him

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What are three contextual points about To Autumn?

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-John Keats was a significant romantic poet
-He had many family issues
-He had lots of money troubles
-The poem was inspired by a walk near the river Itchen
-He died ages 25 from tuberculosis

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Who wrote The Prelude?

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William Wordsworth

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Who wrote To Autumn

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John Keats

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Who wrote Dulce et Decorum Est?

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Wilfred Owen

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What are three contextual points about Dulce Et Decorum Est?

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-Owen enlisted to fight in WW1 in 1915 aged 22
-He died in battle a week before the war ended
-Owen was writing in opposition to WW1 propaganda
-Chlorine gas was a popular weapon in WW1

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Who wrote The Soldier?

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Rupert Brooke

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What are three contextual points about The Soldier?

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-Brooke enlisted to fight in WW1 in 1914 aged 27
-April 1915 Brooke died on a ship form blood poisoning that he got from a mosquito bite
-Brooke never actually went to the front line
-He wrote a series of sonnets and this was the final one in his collection

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Who wrote a Wife in London?

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Thomas Hardy

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What are three contextual points for a Wife in London?

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-It was written about the second Boar war (1899-1902)
-Around 2000 soldiers were killed
-Hardy was not a soldier, he was an anti-war poet
- Hardy was born in Dorset
-He was a poet of the Victorian age (1840-1928)

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Who wrote the Manhunt?

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Simon Armitage

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What are three contextual points about the Manhunt?

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-Poem is based on a real soldier, Eddie Beddos
-Poem was written for a documentary on army veterans
-Eddie fought in the Bosnian war (1992-95) which was a very violent war
-Eddie suffers from PTSD

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Who wrote Mametz Wood?

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Owen Sheers

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What are three contextual points about Mametz wood?
-Sheers was born in Wales in 1974 -He was not a soldier, but interested in history -Wrote the poem when war detritus was still being found in Mametz Wood -Mametz Wood is in Northern France and was a key setting battleground in the Battle of the Somme
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Who wrote she Walks in Beauty?
Lord Byron
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What are three contextual points for She Walks in Beauty?
-Byron was born in 1788 and died in 1824 -He was described as “mad, bad and dangerous to know” -He was a romantic poet, politician and revolutionary -Byron doesn’t use traditional imagery, he uses nature and night imagery
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What are three contextual points for Valentine
-Duffy is a contemporary Scottish poet and former poet laureate -Her writing explored ideas about gender, oppression and sexuality -She is openly part of the LGBTQ+ community -Valentine was first written in 1993 when a radio station asked Duffy to write a poem for Valentine’s Day
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Who wrote Valentine?
Carol Ann Duffy
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Wrote Sonnet 43?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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What are three contextual points for Sonnet 43?
-Browning was born in 1806 and died in 1861 -She was devoutly Christian -She was ill and frail most of her life -She endured a very troubled relationship with her father, who threatened to disown her if she married Robert Browning -so they communicated in secret and this was the 43rd sonnet she wrote for him
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Who wrote Cozy Apologia?
Rita Dove
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What are three contextual points for Cozy Apologia?
-Dove was born in 1952 -She is a contemporary American poet and a former US poet Laureate -Cozy Apologia is an auto-biographical poem -Hurricane Floyd hit the US East coast in 1999
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What are three key quotes from The Manhunt
“The frozen river which ran through his face” “The foetus of metal beneath his chest” “To a sweating unexploded mine buried deep in his mind”
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What is important about the structure of The Manhunt
The rhyme scheme falls apart throughout the poem, but there is a half-rhyme at the end showing he is beginning to heal
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What are 3 key quotations form Sonnet 43
“I love thee to the depth and breadth and height” “I shall but love the better, after death” “With all my lost saints”
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What are three key quotations form The Soldier
“If i should die, think only this of me” “Under an English heaven” “A dust whom England bore”
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What is important about the structure of The Soldier
It’s almost a perfect sonnet showing how perfect he thinks England is and how the poem is talking about his love for his country
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What is important about the structure of The Soldier
It’s almost a perfect sonnet showing how perfect he thinks England is
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What are three key quotations from She Walks in Beauty
“Of cloudless climes and starry nights” “Best of dark and bright” “A heart whose love is innocent”
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What are three key quotations from Cozy Apologia
“Oddly male: Big Bad Floyd” “Astride a dappled mare” “I could pick anything and think of you”
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What is important about the structure of Cozy Apologia
Perfect rhyming couplets in stanza 1 suggest traditional love
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What are three key quotations in Valentine
“Not a red rose or a satin heart” “It is a moon wrapped in brown paper” “I give you an onion”
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What are three key quotes from A Wife in London
“She sits in the tawny vapour” “Like a warning taper” “Whom the worm now knows”
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What is important about the structure of A Wife in London
The poem is split into two parts showing the two sides to the women’s story
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What are three key quotes form To Autumn
“Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness” “Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies” - mourning autumn’s end “Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun” - relationship between autumn and the sun shows harmonious natural order
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What is important about the structure of To Autumn
Each stanza in the poem represents a different stage in Autumn - beginning, middle and end
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What are three key quotes for Dulce at Decorum est
“Men marched asleep” “As under a green sea, I saw him drowning” “Drunk with fatigue”
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What is important about the structure of Dulce et Decorum Est
There is an ABABCDCD rhyme scheme which represents the soldiers marching
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What are three key quotes about Mametz Wood
“In the boots that outlasted them” “A chit of bone, the china plate of a shoulder blade” “A broken mosaic of bone linked arm in arm”
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What is important about the structure of Mametz Wood
There are three line stanzas which creates a broken and unbalanced structure
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What are three key quotes from The Prelude
“I heeded not the summons” “Meanwhile, the precipices rang aloud” “The orange sky of evening died away”
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What are three key contextual points from London?
London is from a volume of poetry called Songs of Experience which talks about loss of innocence, corruption and the demise of society - Industrial Revolution. Blake rejected established religion. Blake believed in social and racial equality.
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Who wrote London?
William Blake
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What is the writer’s message in London?
To illustrate how London, once a beloved city, was changing beyond recognition due to its industrialisation.
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What are three key quotes from London?
‘The mind-forg’d manacles’ ‘Near where the charter’d Thames does flow’ ‘Blights with the plagues the marriage hearse’
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What are three key contextual points from Living Space?
Dharker is a multicultural poet who uses that throughout her writing. The poem is written about the Mumbai Slums which has limited access to food, safe water, electricity and education. Dharker uses her poetry to raise awareness of how people in different cultures live.
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Who wrote Living space?
Imtiaz Dharker
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What is the writer’s message in Living Space?
Dharker conveys the resilience and beauty of life even in the face of adversity.
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What is significant about the structure of living space?
Dharker uses a random and unpredictable structure and repeated enjambement to emphasise the ramshackle state of the slums.
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What are three key quotes from Living Space?
‘Beams balance crookedly on supports thrust off the vertical’ ‘Even dared to place these eggs in a wire basket’ ‘The bright thin walls of faith’
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What are three contextual points from Death of a Naturalist?
Heaney grew up in rural Northern Ireland on his family’s farm. ‘The Troubles’ was the conflict in Northern Ireland from the late 1960s to 1998 - some believe this is what the change in perspective was based on. First published in 1966.
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Who wrote death of a Naturalist?
Seamus Heaney
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What is the writers message in Death of a Naturalist?
The loss of childhood and innocence as you grow a deeper understanding for the world, particularly in relation to nature.
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How is the structure significant in Death of a Naturalist?
The first stanza is longer than the second perhaps mirroring how time seems to move slower when you are younger.
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What are three key quotes from Death of a Naturalist?
‘Poised like mud grenades’ ‘But best of all was the warm thick slobber of frogspawn’ ‘Invaded the flax-dam’
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What are three key contextual points for Ozymandias?
Ozymandias is another name for Rameses 2 who’s as one of the greatest Egyptian pharaohs and believed himself to be god. He was obsessed with himself, carving his name millions of times over everything. Shelley was a romantic poem who disliked the monarchy and was an atheist. Shelley lived from 1792-1822.
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Who wrote Ozymandias?
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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What is the writers message in Ozymandias?
The transience of power and the inevitability of decay despite all efforts.
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What is significant about the structure of Ozymandias?
The poem is a sonnet, conventionally used in love poems perhaps conveying Ozymandias’ love of himself. Also the rhyme scheme falls apart throughout the poem mirroring how the statue falls apart.
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What are three key quotes from Ozymandias?
‘Half sunk, a shattered visage lies’ ‘My name is Ozymandias king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’ ‘Nothing beside remians’
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What is significant about the structure of She Walks in Beauty?
There is a very regular rhythm to perhaps mirror how perfect he thinks she is.
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What is significant about the structure of London?
There is an iambic tetrameter which has a very rigid best to perhaps mirror the control and oppression in London at that time.
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