Context

• Poems that use romantism

  • Sonnet 43 - Elizabeth Barret Browning
  • London - William Blake
  • She Walks in Beauty - Lord Byron
  • To Autumn - John Keats
  • Ozymandias - Percy Byshe Shelley
  • The Prelude - William Wordsworth
• Manhunt

  • Based on Eddie Beddoes - discharged due to injury + depression
  • speaker = wife
  • Peace keeping force in Bosnia (1990s)
  • Emotional + physical pain
  • PTSD
• The soldier

  • written before ww1
  • died due to blood poisoning (serving in the Royal Navy)
  • Propaganda
  • Persuassive
  • unrealistic
• A Wife in London

  • Boer War
  • Telegram before love letter
  • highlights female pain of war isolation
• Dulce et Decorum est

  • ww1 - Battle of the Somme
  • died in battle just before before the end of the war
  • sickened by violence
• Mametz Wood

  • Northern France (1st battle of the Somme)
  • Welsh division
  • describes his experiences + thoughts when visiting 100 years later
  • succeeded = cost of 40,000 killed or injuried
• sonnet 43

  • poet suffered from poor health/ lonely existance until 40
  • directed at husband
  • loss of faith at a time where church was significant within society
  • disagreement with parents - 'My old griefs'
  • escapism
• she walks in beauty

  • about his cousin
  • at a funeral
  • depicts love of physical beauty (heart rules head)
  • uses dark + night images to praise beauty
  • reputaion made him have to leave England
• cozy apologia

  • about husband Fred (love + comfort)
  • African - American poet
  • Autobiographical poem
  • Hurricane Floyd 1999
• Valentine

  • poem written for a radio station for valentines day
  • failed marriage + some conventual relationships
  • realism of love
  • depiction of relationships
  • Poet Laureate
  • contemporary poet
• As imperceptibly as grief

  • reclusive poet - written in her room
  • bedroom overlooked graveyard which had 5 friends burried in their
  • wide reader
  • interested in civil war
  • father = American congression
• Death of a Naturalist

  • grew up on a farm in rural northern Ireland (middle of the 20th century)
  • deep personal connection with the countryside
  • grew up in the troubles
  • innocence to experience
• Hawk Roosting

  • Hawk = speaker
  • egotistical + arrogant (apex predator)
  • poet laurate
  • controversial - Hawk on top of the world (links to Nazis)
  • Hughes said it wasn't about cruelty
  • concept of nature owning the world
• To Autumn

  • celebrates nature + focuses on feelings
  • written towards the end of his life (knew he was dying of TB)
  • was an Ode = dedicated to
  • reflection on life/ death
• The Prelude

  • traumatic childhood (depicts innocence in childhood)
  • lived with Grandparents in the Lake District (disliked them)
  • fear of nature
  • brother died
• London

  • lived in Victorian London
  • lost faith - because church refused to help children in poverty (frequent theme)
  • Industrial Revolution = suppression of humanity (believed)
• Living Space

  • poet had a culturally diverse background
  • raised in Scotland by Pakistani parents
  • attended calninist school as a Muslim
  • lives between London + Mumbai with Indian Hindu husband
  • poems often bold + brave, political, current + relevant (cultural differences)
  • India - slums - poverty - social concept
• Afternoons

  • men worked (women stayed at home)
  • laundry was done by hand
  • limited TV - people did hobbies in spare rooms
  • cynical views on relationships
  • family life = non-existent
• Ozymandias

  • sonnet - based on Egyptian pharaoh called Rameses II
  • main theme = nature +time - using exotic lands +critising those in power
  • pharaoh was hugely powerful tyrant + ordered statue of himself
  • arrogance of rulers