News of a soldiers death would be sent by telegram and so it would arrive faster than the soldiers letters, which were sent by normal mail. Thomas Hardy wrote the poem in 1899, during the Boer war. He was deeply against the war.
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Content of the Soldier
A soldier is talking about the possibility of dying in a foreign country during war. He believes death will be comforting and he'll be able to give back the things England gave to him.
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Quotes of the Soldier
"If I should die", "that is forever England", "under an English heaven", "dreams happy as her day",
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Poet and Context of the Soldier
Rupert Brooke wrote it in 1914, he died in 1915. Captures the idealism of the soldiers fighting in WW1.
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Quotes for a Wife In London
"The tragedy", "The Irony", "The fog hangs thicker", "he-has fallen-in the far south land", "page full of his hoped return", "tawny vapour"
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Content for a Wife in London
A woman receives a telegram about her husband. The next day she receives a letter he wrote talking about how he hopes to come home.
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Content for the Manhunt
The wife of a soldier gets to know her husband again after he returns home injured from war. The poem describes his mental and psycological scars.
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Content for Living Space
It describes a badly built building that's falling apart. The speaker notices a basket of eggs hanging outside that suggests hope for the future.
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Content for Dulce et Decorum est
Describes the suffering of exhausted soldiers marching away from battle. The soldiers are attacked with gas, the narrator sees a man die and is haunted by the image in his dreams.
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Content for Mametz wood`
Begins with farmers in France in the present finding bones and skeletons of soldiers who died in WW1 in their fields. It talks about how the soldiers died. It allows the memories of the soldiers to be honoured.
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Quotes for the Manhunt
"trace", "damaged, porcelin collar bone", "grazed heart", "Foetus of metal", "buried deep in his mind", "did i come close", "unexploded mine"
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Quotes for the Living Space
"nothing is flat", "nails clutch", "a living space", "slanted universe", "bright thin walls of faith", "fragile"
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Quotes for Dulce et Decorum est
"limped on", "drunk with fatigue", "gas shells dropping", "gas!gas!quick, boys!", "clumsy helmets", "drowning", "my friends", "the old lie: Dulce et Decorum est pro patria mori.
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Quotes for Mametz Wood
"wasted young", "china plate", "relic of a finger", "nesting machine guns", "twenty men buried in one long grave", "broken mosaic of bone", "they were told to walk, not run"
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Poet and context of the Manhunt
By the English poet Simon Armitage. Poem adresses common side effects of war on the soldiers bodies and minds. The soldier in this poem has PTSD.
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Poet and context of Living Space
Imitaz Dharker was born in Pakistan but now lives in Britain and India. It is about housing in Mumbai.
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Poet and context of Dulce et Decorum est
Wilfred Owen was a soldier in WW1 and wrote dulce et decorum est in the war. Published in 1920 after his death. Reveals his anger at wars horrific conditions.
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Poet and context for Mametz Wood
Sheers was born in 1974 and grew up in Wales. Battle of the Somme was fought in July-November 1916. Welsh soldiers were told to walk towards the Germans and there were many fatalities. People though the men had been treated badly.
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Structure of the Manhunt
Different injuries are in couplets. It gradually moves down the soldiers body. It allows the reader to explore his body slowly, like the wife.
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Structure of Living Space
Split into two parts. 1-Description of an unstable building. 2+3-Hope for the future despite difficult circumstances.
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Structure of Dulce et Decorum est
The tone is serious at the start showing memories of war and later goes on to say how they effect him in the present. Then the narrator adopts an ironic tone to put his opinion across.
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Structure of Mametz Wood
5 stanzas with 3 lines each. The poem moves forward chronologically . The slow pace emphasises the lasting effect of war and the time it takes the earth to heal.
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Content of the Soldier
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A soldier is talking about the possibility of dying in a foreign country during war. He believes death will be comforting and he'll be able to give back the things England gave to him.
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