all others - context and summary

• catrin - summary

  the birth of her daughter and the implications that the both the speaker and the child getting older has on his relationship

  explores how conflict can start to work its way into a maternal relationship as it grows and develops
• catrin - context

  has three children

  autobiographical
• the destruction of sennacherib - summary

  lord Byron

  biblical story of the failed Assyrian siege of Jerusalem

  power of god in relation to the inferior power of the army
• the destruction of sennacherib - context

  romantic poet

  interested in travelling to the orient and was fascinated by their exotic lifestyles

  based on biblical story where the king of Assyrians try to invade Jerusalem but defeated by the religious forces
• the man he killed - summary

  speakers experience of having to kill a man whilst in combat during the Boer war

  under different circumstances the man he is killing could be a friend
• the man he killed - context

  Boer war fought between British and two states in south Africa

  poem deals with the futility or pointlessness of war

  hardy was against the Boer war
• the charge of the light brigade - summary

  soldiers are commanded to march to their deaths

  charge heroically but few survive
• the charge of the light brigade - context

  one of the most influential poets of the Victorian era

  Tennyson had an unhappy childhood

  the Crimean war was a conflict initially involving Russia and the ottoman
• what were they like? - summary

  explores effect of the Vietnam war

  warns against the continuation of the war
• what were they like - context

  became an activist against the Vietnam war

  lack of formal education led to her work being characteristically clear and accessible

  Vietnamese war was between America and Vietnam during 60s and 70s

  failures of American foreign policy