Relationships Poetry Contexts

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La Belle Dame Sans Merci - John Keats
He had TB while writing the poem (wrote it 2 years before death) and had nursed his mother and brother who also had TB. He was in love with another woman, romantic era
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A Child to his Sick Grandfather - Joanna Baillie
Romantic Era, daughter of a minister: raised in religious household, Scottish dramatist
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She Walks in Beauty - Lord Byron
Romantic poet, inspired to write the poem after a fashionable London party, described as 'mad, bad and dangerous to know'
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A Complaint - William Wordsworth
Poem thought to be about his friend Samuel Taylor Coleridge (fellow poet) --> Coleridge became addicted to opium, affected their friendship
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Neutral Tones - Thomas Hardy
Separated from his wife then she died, influenced by social realism and emotionalism
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Sonnet 43 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Suffered life-long illness, had a difficult relationship with her parents - who eventually disowned her
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My Last Duchess - Robert Browning
Best known for his use of dramatic monologues, reflects Browning's love of history and European culture, ran away to Italy with Elizabeth Barrett to get married, heavily influenced by his fathers collection of books and art
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1st Date - She and 1st Date - He - Wendy Cope
Best known for her witty humour, a modern poet who uses traditional forms
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Valentine - Carol Ann Duffy
Writes monologues from the point of view of disturbed characters, poem was written for a radio broadcast on Valentines Day
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One Flesh - Elizabeth Jennings
Focuses on her own parents relationship
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i wanna be yours - John Cooper Clarke
Became addicted to heroin, known as the 'punk poet', i wanna be yours was written to be sung and was made into a song by the Arctic Monkeys
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Love's Dog - Jen Hadfield
Born in 1978, poem based on another called A View Of Things by Edwin Morgan: "What I hate about love is it's dog", written to show "the effort and deliberation of love"
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Nettles - Vernon Scannell
Fought in World War Two
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The Manhunt - Simon Armitage
Written about a soldier called Eddie from the point of view of his wife, Laura, reflects concern for social issues and draws on Yorkshire roots
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My Father Would Not Show Us - Ingrid de Kok
Could be about her own father, South African poet, grew up during apartheid so might refer to political secrets and patriarchal white-dominated society
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Poem thought to be about his friend Samuel Taylor Coleridge (fellow poet) --> Coleridge became addicted to opium, affected their friendship

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Separated from his wife then she died, influenced by social realism and emotionalism

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