Poetry Context

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

The Collar

Devotion - Resolution After Crisis

Was very ill when writing it

Left parliament to take holy orders

Struggling with devotion

The Prelude

Childhood Nature Loss

Autobiographical - one of three versions

Romantic poet

The Sublime - commune with nature

The Schoolboy

Childhood Loss Relationships

Pastoral Poem

Criticising formal learning

Romantic Poet

England in 1819

Political Protest

Sonnet

Criticism of King Georges reign

Published 20 years later after poets death

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’

The Voice

Devotion Loss Relationships

Elegy - mourn dead

His wife of several decades

He had had affairs

To a Child Dancing in the Wind

Landscape Childhood Mortality/Age

a late-romantic poet

often between two homes in childhood (?)

Leisure

Nature Humanity Industrial

written during industrialisation - challenging it

In ‘Songs of Joy and Others’ - 1911

Importance of leisure in life

The Passionate Shepherd To His Love

Landscape Love/Relationships Nature

seductive poem

returning to nature

pastoral lyric poem- romanticise rural

My Last Duchess

Pride Power Relationships

set in Italy but written in England

based on real Duke of Ferrara whose wife also dies suspiciously

Remembrance

Legacy Loss Relationships

elegy - mourn dead

a Gondall Story - Princess Rosina to her only love

set in a british burial ground