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Ozymandius
- Shelley = Romantic Poet
↪️ Romanticism = nature / emotions - Shelley = anti-monarchist
↪️ George III - Shelley = atheist
- French Revolution
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London
- Published at a time of widespread poverty (Industrial Revolution)
- Blake = political radical
↪️ Racial & social equality - Blake questioned government & the Church
- 'Songs of Innocence' - lost innocence & corruption of society
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Extract from, The Prelude
- Written to rival 'Paradise Lost' - Milton
- Wordsworth = Romantic poet
↪️ Romanticism = nature / emotions - Autobiographical
4
My Last Duchess
- Written in the Victorian Era
↪️ Strict gender norms - Based on the Duke of the Ferrara
↪️ Wife died under suspicious circumstances (poisoned) - Browning = English
↪️ Lived in Italy
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The Charge of the Light Brigade
- Tennyson = Poet Laureate
↪️ Had to portray the war as positive - Crimean War = very unpopular
- Written in the Victorian Era
↪️ Blind devotion to power expected
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Exposure
- Owen = soldier in WWI
↪️ Killed in battle - Owen = anti-war
- Owen felt a sense of duty to fight
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Storm on the Island
- Published at the beginning of 'The Troubles'
↪️ Violent period between those who wanted to remain in the UK and those who wanted freedom (NI) - First letters = 'Stormont'
↪️ NI's government - Heaney lived through 'The Troubles' in NI
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Bayonet Charge
- Hughes's father fought in WWI
↪️ Survived Gallipoli
↪️ Poem is set in Gallipoli - Hughes was influenced by Wilfred Owen
- Hughes grew up post-WWII
↪️ Warning to future generations
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Remains
- Written to coincide with a documentary about war PTSD
↪️ Increased awareness & sympathy - Based on Guardsman Tromans
↪️ Fought in Iraq - "Men who return from war in body but never, wholly, in mind." - Armitage
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Poppies
- Set in the time around Iraq & Afghan wars
- Poppies = symbol of war / remembrance
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War Photographer
- Inspired by her friendship with a war photographer
- Duffy = fascinated by the act of documenting while being unable to help
- Duffy = critical about war / conflict
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Tissue
- 'The Terrorist at My Table' = how well we know those around us
- Dharker = born in Pakistan, grew up in Glasgow
- Dharker's husband had suffered from cancer for 11 years
13
The Emigrée
- Rumens travelled widely
- Increasingly relevant today
- "Fascination with the elsewhere" - Rumens
14
Checking Out Me History
- Agard = born in the Caribbean, moved to the UK
- Agard saw a textbook: 'Caribbean history began with Christopher Columbus'
- Criticises the Eurocentric British curriculum
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Kamikaze
- Kamikaze = suicide pilots in WWII
↪️ Japanese - "Other people's worlds" - Garland
- Cowardice / Surrender = greatest shame
↪️ WWII Japan
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