Mini Guide for The Anthology @Eduqas
BL:Best links
The Sonnet 43
-Browning
MT:Love&Relationships
C: Romantic poets influence,
Wrote 44 sonnets (love
poems) to husband before
marriage, Parents difficult,
An invalid in early years
poetry was escape. Religious
upbringing.
M: Intense nature of her love
for her husband to be. She
outlines all the different
ways she loves him.
Q:How do I love thee? Let
Manhunt- me count the ways.
..to the level of every days
Armitage most quiet need
MT:War,Suffering,
..with my childhoods faith
Love&Relationships,
with the
C: Peacekeeper in
breath,
Bosnia, Shot, PTSD,
smiles, tears of all
Eddie and Wife
my life
rebuilding relationship
M: Physical and
better
emotional pain, wife
after death
supporting him
BL: Cozy
towards recovery and
Apologia,
carefully exploring the
Valentine
physical injuries, but
then identifying the
root of problems are in
his mind - the horrors
of war that he endured
and being shot.
Q: Frozen river which
ran through his face
handle and hold
Feel the hurt of his
grazed heart
Foetus of metal
beneath his chest
Unexploded mine
buried deep in his
MT:Main Themes C:Context M:Meaning Q:Quotes
London - Blake The Soldier - She walks in Living Space
MT: Suffering, Place, Brooke Beauty -Byron -Dharker
Childhood
MT: War, Death MT: Beauty, Women, MT: Place
C: Terrible poverty, Anti-
C: Written BEFORE war Love&Relationships C: Poet divides time
religion-Church did nothing to
started, originally entitled C: Written about his between London and
help, child
The recruit, Propaganda, 2 cousins wife who was in a India, A film maker who
labour/prostitution, Blake
million men ended up dying black dress at a funeral wanted to raise
believed in spirit of French
in WW1. struck by contrast between awareness of issues like
Revolution(1790s) should be
M: Men owe it to their striking youthful beauty terrible conditions of
action against harsh
country to fight. If they die, and dark clothing, Mumbai slums
government, Blake lived in
their remains will proudly One of the Romantics Poet recognises courage
London in the Georgian Era (
represent English territory believed in passion/beauty, of Mumbai slums
saw it all.
abroad, and their soul will Wild, many affairs, residents who have
M: Widespread suffering of
go to a special English womaniser purposefully moved to
the poor in bleak London.
heaven where friends, and M: Exploration of both the city to try and
There is deep suffering in
adults who cry and die young,
fun will return. outward, physical beauty, improve life chances
Q: Theres some corner of and inner beauty: the mind M: Both concerned and
and in children who are
a foreign field that is at peace, and an innocent awe-struck by the
forced to work dangerous
heart. dangerous living
jobs, even prostitution. The
Q: She walks in beauty conditions and fragile
government and the church
like the night of cloudless housing structures.
are blamed.
climes and starry skies Admires their courage
Q: Marks of weakness, marks
All thats best of dark and and hope against the
of woe
bright meet in her eyes odds.
Mind forged manacles
How pure, how dear their Q: Nails clutch at open
Every blackning church
dwelling place seams
appals
A heart whose love is The whole structure
The youthful harlots curse
innocent leans dangerously
The marriage hearse
BL: Sonnet 43, Cozy towards the miraculous
BL: Living Space,
Apologia, Afternoons, Someone has squeezed
Afternoons,, Dulce
a living space
As if they were the
bright thin walls of faith
BL: London, A Wife in
London,
forever England
A dust whom England
bore, shaped, made aware
Gives somewhere back the
thoughts by England given
At peace under an English
heaven
BL:, Dulce,
mind
Only then did I come
close

BL: Dulce, Wife in

London

As Cozy Apologia - Valentine - Duffy A Wife in London Death of a Hawk Roosting

imperceptibly Dove MT: Love & Relationships, -Hardy Naturalist -Hughes
Power
as Grief - MT: Love & Relationships,
C: Poet Laureate. Famous for
MT: Love, Death, War, -Heaney MT: Nature, Power, Death
Power Women, Place C: Hughes fascinated by
Dickinson C: Poet married to fellow
beautiful and subversive love
C: About the Boer War, and
MT: Nature, Place,
animals, was a farmer for
poems. As a feminist and a Childhood, Change
MT: Nature, Death, writer, Fred Viebahn a a soldiers death. a short while. Studied
lesbian, she may have been C: Reflects the poets
Change, Suffering, tribute to him. Communication channels Anthropology the
seeking to challenge interest in nature. Reflects
Love & Relationships Poem is set against the bad in 19th century. Poet behaviour of humans
traditional, stereotypical the loss of his childhood
C: Poet was a recluse concerned with plight of within past and present
views of love in society. A innocence and naivety. Age
hardly ever saw single women. Poet was societies.
strong woman giving the gift 12 his brother
people, poem thought separated from wife; wife Hawk was a Nazi symbol,
in the poem, not a man who died.Perhaps references
to be written about died; he still loved her and politicians are
was originally expected to the fear of his maturing
either the though and read over her described as hawkish
buy valentine gifts like roses. sexuality, as he started a
departure/death of a letters after she died aggressive towards other
Dad was a Labour party Catholic boarding school
friend who had been which links to the voice countries. Hughes
candidate inspired Duffy to where sinful deeds were
staying, or from beyond the grave probably used the hawk
criticise materialistic punished, and attitudes to
perhaps idea. as a metaphor for the
Thatcherite society. Lays bare sex were very strict.
unreciprocated love. M: In the thick, gloomy way some leaders
the fake, clichd, consumerist M: A boy visits a swamp
Grew up in New London fog, a wife waits arrogantly abuse their
Valentines day institution. and takes some frogspawn
England countryside alone, separated from her power like Hitler.
M: Rather than clichd gifts to observe at home. He is
beautiful place in husband who has gone to Do humans just act on
America. Inspired by imminent arrival of Hurricane
Romantics saw the Katrina where 6000 people
beauty in nature. 5 of lost their homes.
her school friends died M: She is distracted from her
of T.B. writing by her powerful love
M: The summer passes for her husband who is also
too quickly for her writing in the room, whilst
liking and as her friend Hurricane Katrina
leaves/dies? She approaches. Husband is
notices the darker side portrayed as knight in
of nature approaching, shining armour, better than
and feels lost. teenage crushes, and she
Q: The summer feels safe and protected
lapsed away when shes near him. She
A quietness distilled believes it is a bit clichd but
as twilight long begun the relationship makes her
The morning foreign happy.
shone Q: I could choose any hero,
As guest that would any cause, any age and sure
be gone as shooting arrows to the
Without a wing or heart...there youll be
service of a keel One eyes smiling, the other
BL: To Autumn, Wife firm upon the enemy
in London, A hurricane is nudging up
the coast. Oddly male: Big
Bad Floyd
Teenage crushes on
worthless boys
When has the ordinary ever
been news?
To keep me from
melancholy, I fill this stolen
time with you
BL: Sonnet 43, Valentine,
like cards, roses, etc, the fight. A messenger delivers fascinated to learn about animal-instincts? Anti-
speaker gives her lover an a telegram which informs them. religion too possibly.
onion which she believes is a her that her husband has A second visit when he is M: The hawk, a predatory
real, genuine gift of love. It died in battle. The shock is older has different results bird, surveys its kingdom,
acts as a powerful extended huge. The irony is that the the frogs appear believing Nature looks to
metaphor for all the different next day a letter is menacing and vengeful. it for approval.
things love represents: its delivered from her husband Q: Best of all was the It is in awe of its creation,
power and hold over which talked of all his plans thick warm slobber of and kills brutally and
someone. for them on his return. frogspawn indiscriminately, taking
Q: Not a red rose or a satin Q: She sits in the tawny Wait and watch until the notice of no-one. It has
heart. I give you an onion. vapour that the City lanes fattening dots burst into always been this way in
It is a moon wrapped in have uprolled nimble swimming nature and the Hawk
brown paper A messengers knock tadpoles does not want it to
It will blind you with tears cracks smartly Miss Walls would tell us change.
Its fierce kiss will stay on Shaped so shortly: He how the daddy frog was Q: Earths face upward
your lips possessive and has fallen in the far South called a bullfrog for my inspection
faithful Land. A coarse croaking I had I hold creation in my
Its platinum loops shrink to His hand, whom the worm not heard before foot
a wedding ring now knows Some sat poised like mud My manners are tearing
Its scent will cling to your Penned in highest feather grenades off heads
fingers, cling to your knife -page full of his hoped The great slime kings No arguments assert my
BL: Cozy Apologia, Sonnet return were gathered there for right
BL: As imperceptibly as vengeance Nothing has changed
grief, Living Space, The BL: The Prelude, Hawk since I began. My eye has
Manhunt Roosting, To Autumn permitted no change
BL: Ozymandias, Death
of a Naturalist
43,
 To Autumn Afternoons -Larkin Dulce et Decorum Ozymandias - Mametz Wood Excerpt from the
-Keats MT: Women, Change, Est -Owen Shelley -Sheers Prelude -
Love&Relationships, Place, MT: War, Death,
MT: Nature, Death,
Childhood
MT: War, Suffering, Death MT: Power, Death, Change
C: Battle of the Somme
Wordsworth
Beauty, Change C: Dulce title is Latin for C: Poet inspired to write
C: Poet liked to observe bloodiest battle of WW1. MT: Childhood, Change,
C: Dying of T.B. and It is sweet and fitting to die poem when he heard
others from a distance.Was Welsh division ordered to Nature, Place,
had seen many of his for ones country a phrase British Museum secured
cynical towards family life. take Mametz Wood much C: Poet grew up in
friends and family die. used as propaganda to large fragment of the
He never married and bigger undertaking that beautiful Lake District
Realised accepting our persuade men to sign up to statue of the Egyptian
disliked children, saying they generals thought. 600 where poem is set.
own mortality doesnt fight. Owen who experienced Pharoah Ramesses II.
diluted a person. died, 4000 injured. One of the Romantics
mean we cant see the the horrors of WW1 first hand Shelleys wife, Mary Shelley
Poets mum and dad were They succeeded but believed in beauty and
beauty in things. believed it to be a LIE! The ,was the author of
not in a happy, loving bravery wasnt nature, and moments
One of the Romantics poem is a direct challenge to Frankenstein, and was
marriage. Terrified by the acknowledged at the time. that transcend reality.
A believer in beauty writers who were fascinated by the science of
passing of time, and way Poet grew up in Wales Poets mother died when
and truth. glamourising the war such as the time that was obsessed
your life races away. -fascinated by history and he was 8. Father died at
Poet uses the form of Owen Seaman who never with living on after death.
M: Mothers gather in a identity of Welsh people. 13. Poem depicts a
an ode (one he used a actually fought in the war. Written as warning to
playground watching their The Dance Macabre happier time when
lot) where he War challenged the poets rulers who get too powerful
children play. The women (Skeleton leading people parents were alive.
personifies and Christian beliefs. and believe they are
used to be the ones that by the hand to their death) M: The speaker
addresses Autumn The use of mustard gas invincible. He hated
were lovers and lead exciting is an image from medieval nostalgically recalls a
directly. referred to was a chemical Royalty. One of the
lives, but now theirs is a life poetry and art, happy time in his youth
M: The speaker that led to an agonising Romantics he believed
of domestic drudgery: symbolising inevitability of when he played with
admires the busy death, and was first used by nature would always be
washing, ironing, whilst their death for all, and the need friends, skating on the
activity of End the German army in 1917. more powerful than
husbands get to pursue to consider the state of our frozen lakes with the
Summer/Early Autumn M: The soldiers are utterly mankind.
skilled jobs. There is little souls. mountains behind. They
where fruit is ripening. exhausted, and described like M: The speaker recalls a
regard for their relationship M: Farmers find the broken felt animal like in their
In Stanza 2, the old beggars and hags. conversation with a
any more as the wedding bones of the soldiers freedom. The tinkle of the
personified Autumn Suddenly there is a gas attack traveller who tells him
album is discarded. The bodies for years ice skates on the ice
rests after the harvest and one poor soldier cannot about a broken statue he
womens beauty has faded, afterwards. We learn the though suddenly echoes
work, and things slow get his mask on in time. The saw lying in pieces in the
and the children have soldiers courageously around the mountains
down. Stanza 3 looks speaker is helpless and has to desert. The face has a
replaced them in importance. walked together as a unit and the sound is eerie,
at the dying of Autumn watch him die an agonising sneer, it is implied he was
Q: Hollows of afternoons towards machine gun fire unnerving and somehow
and imminent winter, death in front of him. The mostly cruel, and the
that ripped many of them sad, perhaps
praising its beauty that poet asks how anyone who writing on the base of the
in half. representing the end of
few notice. witnessed what he did can monument boasts of
As the men are found, it is the evening, and maybe
Q: Close-bosom continue to tell the old lie Ozymandias name and his
friend of the maturing about it being a good thing to works. His powerful status, almost like their voices are
die for your country. and the boasts/ hopes of heard again, and we

his youth, as the

Setting free their children
The albums lettered Our
Wedding, lying
being remembered are
almost laughable, as nature
Q: Like old beggars under
has eroded and damaged
darkness draws in.
remember their sacrifice.
Q: I heeded not the
Q: For years afterwards