Edexcel Conflict Poetry Context

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Hint	Answer
A POISON	TREE
Written by	William Blake
Written when	1794
From what volume of poetry	Songs of Experience
About how ___ is lost and ___ is corrupted	innocence society
Blake grew up very religious. The apple in the story likely alludes to ___ and ___	Adam Eve
THE DESTRUCTION OF	SENNACHERIB
Written by	Lord Byron
Published	1815
Poetry with an emphasis on emotion and nature	Romantic
Based on attack by ___ army	Assyrian
Army led by	King Sennacherib
Attempt to seize	Jerusalem
The ___ ___ ___ mysteriously killed all soldiers and horses before they could attack	Angel of Death
Back in the city of ___ the widows grieve	Ashur
Idols in temple of ___ are destroyed	Baal
EXTRACT FROM THE	PRELUDE
Written by	William Wordsworth
From the	Lake District
Extract from the first of ___ books that make up his poem, The Prelude	14
Published in ___ shortly after his death	1850
It was an ___ poem and he was a Romantic poet	Autobiographical
THE MAN	HE KILLED
Written by	Thomas Hardy
Often touched on themes of ___ inequality and war	Social
Published	1902
At the end of the 2nd ___ ___ (the British invaded territories of Dutch settlers in what is now South Africa)	Boer War
COUSIN	KATE
Written by	Christina Rossetti
Published	1862
Poems cover themes such as womens' role in society and ___	Christianity
In the ___th century women had to conform to strict moral standards	19
Women who had sex out of wedlock were considered ___ ___ and were ostracised	fallen women
Author spent time volunteering with ___ organisations set up to help these women	Church
HALF	CASTE
Written by	John Agard
Published	2005
Had ___ father, ___ mother	Guyanese Portuguese
Born in Guyana, moved to UK in ___	1977
Many poems influenced by ___ inequality and societal injustice	Racial
EXPO	SURE
Written by ___ ___ who died shortly after writing	Wilfred Owen
Much of his poetry reflects anger at the ___ of war and horrific conditions	futility
Written from the ___ ___	WWI trenches
CHARGE OF THE	LIGHT BRIGADE
Written by	Alfred Tennyson
Poet Laureate 1850-	1892

Hint	Answer
Published	1854
Written as tribute to men who died in the	Battle of Balaclava
Which war?	Crimea
The ___ ___ had been ordered to advance into a valley surrounded by enemy soldiers due to a misunderstanding	Light Brigade
They only had ___ while the Russians had ___	swords guns
CAT	RIN
Written by	Gillian Clarke
Born in ___ in 1937	Wales
Poems reflect ___ ___ and family relationships	cultural identity
Published	1997
WAR	PHOTOGRAPHER
Written by	Carole Satyamurti
She was a ___, ___ and ___	poet translator sociologist
Poem is about	modern warfare
Written in ___ when several major conflicts were ongoing	1987
BELFAST	CONFETTI
Author	Ciaran Carson
Published	1990
Born in Ireland in ___	1948
Written during ___ ___	Irish troubles
Conflict between Irish ___ and ___	nationalists unionists
THE CLASS	GAME
Author	Mary Casey
Published	1979
Published in magazine called	Voices
Aimed to publish poems written by ___ ___	ordinary people
Based off author's own life and experiences in ___	Liverpool
POP	PIES
Written by	Jane Weir
Writer and ___ ___	textile designer
Commissioned in ___	2009
^^ By ___ ___ ___	Carole Ann Duffy
Part of a collection of 21st century ___ poems	war
Grew up in ___ and ___ and also lived in ___	Manchester Italy Belfast
NO	PROBLEM
Written by	Benjamin Zephaniah
Born in ___	Birmingham
^^ in	1958
Parents are	Jamaican
Heritage influences poetry; this one is about ___	racism
Published ___	1996
WHAT WERE	THEY LIKE?
Author	Denise Levertov
Born in ___ and moved to ___ ___ in 1948	England New York
Eventually became American citizen but was strongly opposed to the USA's involvement in the ___ ___	Vietnam War
Written in	1967