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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
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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
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The Emigrée
  • Rumens travelled widely
  • Increasingly relevant today
  • "Fascination with the elsewhere" - Rumens
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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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