1. M: Questions life & changes
Anthology Poems at a glance: Meaning (M), Context (C), Quotes (Q), Language & Structure (L/S)
London; Blake
M: Questions life & changes
C: Industrial Revolution, From Song of experience & innocence, rejects religion
Q: 1“charter’d Thames” 2“Every cry”, 3”Soldier’s sigh”
L/S: 1Noun phrase, 2repetition, sibilance
The Manhunt; Armitage
M: emotional response to shooting
C: Bosnia, peacekeeper, shot, Eddie & wife Laura
Q: 1“frozen river”, 2“mind & attend”, 3“unexploded mine”
L/S: 1simile, 2verbs,3metaphor & enjambment
Sonnet 43; Barrett Browning
M: extreme love of husband
C: rejects religion, disowned by father, suffers severe illnesses
Q: 1”How do I love thee?”, 2”ideal Grace”, 3“better after death.”
L/S: 1Rhetorical Q, 2Religious connotations, 3Statement
The Soldier; Brooke
M: Propaganda for men to go to war
C: before the war, lies, he died not having seen war
Q: 1“foreign field”, 2”England bore”, 3”dreams happy as her day”
L/S: 1alliteration, 2repetition, 3 personification
She Walks in Beauty; Byron
M: admiration of female at a funeral
C: about his cousin, ladies man, fought with the Greeks
Q: 1“cloudless climes”, 2”raven tresses”, 3”love is innocent!”
L/S: 1alliteration, 2connotations,3 end-stopping
Living Space; Dharker
M: commenting on shanty towns in India
C: India, social justice, poverty
Q: 1”straight lines”, 2”squeezed”, 3 “thin walls of faith”
L/S: 1noun phrase, 2verb, 3metaphor
As Imperceptibly as Grief; Dickinson
M: death of summer
C: reclusive, American, interested in civil war
Q: 1“lapsed away”, 2”Grace”, 3”light escape”
L/S: 1adjective, 2religious connotations, 3personification
Cozy Apologia; Dove
M: love during a hurricane
C: autobiographical, hurricane Floyd, guilt
Q: 1”set me free”, 2”Oddly male”, 3”stolen time”
L/S:
Valentine; Duffy
M: real presentation of love
C: Poet Laureate, feminist, contemporary poet
Q: 1”an onion”, 2”blind you with tears”, 3”cling”
L/S: 1metaphor, 2simile, 3verb

2. M: wife gets telegram re husbands death next day a letter from him
Anthology Poems at a glance: Meaning (M), Context (C), Quotes (Q), Language & Structure (L/S)
A Wife in London; Hardy
M: wife gets telegram re husbands death next day a letter from him
C: Boer war, isolation, olden days
Q: 1“tawny vapour”, 2”Flashed news”, 3”worm now knows”
L/S: 1 pathetic fallacy, 2 noun phrase, 3metaphor
Death of a Naturalist: Heaney
M: change: interest to fear nature
C: sent away, from Ireland, educated
Q: 1”gargled delicately”, 2”tell the weather”, 3 poised like mud grenades”
L/S: 1adverb, 2statement, 3simile
Hawk Roosting: Hughes
M: superiority - bird of prey
C: inspired by nature, nazi emblem, religious cynic
Q: 1“I sit”, 2 “tearing off heads”, 3 “my right”
L/S: 1first person, 2verbs & violent connotations, 3pronoun
Dulce et Decorum Est: Owen
M: cynicism about the reality war, brutality
C: response to propaganda poems, lies, disillusionment
Q: 1“like old beggars under sacks” 2”drowning”, 3”such high zest”
L/S: 1simile, 2verb,3sarcasm
To Autumn; Keats
M: celebrate the seasons
C: romantic poet, TB, death of family Q: “mists and mellow”, 2”fume of poppies”, 3”twitter in the skies”
L/S: 1alliteration, 2metaphor, 3senses
Afternoons; Larkin
M: family life & observations
C: cynical views, never married, one-dimensional lifestyle
Q: “Summer is fading:”, 2”Our Wedding”, 3 “pushing”
L/S: 1metaphor & end-stopping, 2italics, 3verb
Ozymandias; Shelley
M: reflects how power corrupts
C: romantic poet, about Pharaoh Ramesses, anti-corruption
Q: “Two vast and trunkless”, 2”cold command”,3 “sands stretch”
L/S:1 adjectives, 2 alliteration, 3 sibilance
Mametz Wood; Sheers
M: to memorise soldiers from the Welsh regiment
C: Welsh regiment, forgotten, Battle of the Somme
Q: “wasted young”, 2”bird’s egg of a skull”, 3 “absent tongue”
L/S: 1adjective, 2&3 metaphor
Excerpt from The Prelude; Wordsworth
M: child's ice skating memory
C: autobiographical, parents died young, Lake District
Q:1”toll’d six”, 2 hiss’d”, 3”died away”
L/S: 1pathetic fallacy, 2 sibilance, 3imagery