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A Satirical Elegy

Power - Legacy - Corruption

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A Satirical Elegy

Power - Legacy - Corruption

Author of Gullivers Travels + A Modest Proposal

Criticising General John Churchill - political feuds

Irish Protestant - appalled by irish catholics and snobby english

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The Collar

Devotion - Resolution After Crisis

Was very ill when writing it

Left parliament to take holy orders

Struggling with devotion

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The Prelude

Childhood Nature Loss

Autobiographical - one of three versions

Romantic poet

The Sublime - commune with nature

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The Schoolboy

Childhood Loss Relationships

Pastoral Poem

Criticising formal learning

Romantic Poet

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England in 1819

Political Protest

Sonnet

Criticism of King Georges reign

Published 20 years later after poets death

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The Darkling Thrush

Landscape Nature Resolution after Crisis

Written at end of year and turn of century

Author of Tess of the D’Urbivilles

Originally called ‘By the Century’s Deathbed’

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The Voice

Devotion Loss Relationships

Elegy - mourn dead

His wife of several decades

He had had affairs

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To a Child Dancing in the Wind

Landscape Childhood Mortality/Age

a late-romantic poet

often between two homes in childhood (?)

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Leisure

Nature Humanity Industrial

written during industrialisation - challenging it

In ‘Songs of Joy and Others’ - 1911

Importance of leisure in life

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The Passionate Shepherd To His Love

Landscape Love/Relationships Nature

seductive poem

returning to nature

pastoral lyric poem- romanticise rural

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My Last Duchess

Pride Power Relationships

set in Italy but written in England

based on real Duke of Ferrara whose wife also dies suspiciously

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Remembrance

Legacy Loss Relationships

elegy - mourn dead

a Gondall Story - Princess Rosina to her only love

set in a british burial ground

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