War Poetry
This poem was written by Simon Armitage.
What is The Manhunt?
This poem was written by William Blake.
What is London?
This poem was written by John Keats.
What is To Autumn?
She was as fast as a cheetah.
What is a simile?
This poet is from Wales and often writes about Welsh history and identities.
Who is Owen Sheers?
This poem is written from the point of view of a soldier's wife receiving a letter from her deceased husband.
What is A Wife in London?
This poem could be considered a power poem or a nature poem.
What is Hawk Roosting?
This poem includes disgusting imagery of 'warm thick slobber' and 'blunt heads farting'.
What is Death of a Naturalist?
Her eyes were stars.
What is a metaphor?
This poet is from Yorkshire and wrote a poem about his good friends (a husband and wife).
Who is Simon Armitage?
This poem is written as a sonnet.
What is The Soldier?
This poem includes the line 'Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'.
What is Ozymandias?
The narrator of this poem discusses the 'convenience of the high trees' and said 'the earth's face' is 'upward for [their] inspection'.
What is Hawk Roosting?
The leaves danced in the wind.
What is personification?
This poet lived in London during the late 1700s; he was deeply concerned about the conditions of the working class.
Who is William Blake?
This poem references to 'the relic of a finger' and 'the blown / and broken bird's egg of a skull'.
What is Mametz Wood?
The first-person narrator of this poem sees 'marks of weakness, marks of woe' in every person.
What is London?
This poem has three stanzas, each with eleven lines. It also includes lots of imagery and alliteration.
What is To Autumn.
We went westward in the whistling wind.
What is alliteration?
This poet was married to Sylvia Plath.
Who is Ted Hughes?
This Latin phrase is referred to as 'the old lie'.
What is 'dulce et decorum est pro patria mori'?
This poem discusses the natural transition of power from 'young mothers' and their 'husbands in skilled trades' to 'their children'.
What is Afternoons?
Although not strictly a nature poem, it does reference nature being controlled - "From trees bordering / The new recreation ground". It also uses the metaphor of children as acorns.
What is Afternoons?
The cat was pretty ugly.
What is an oxymoron?
This poet was part of the Romantic movement, which valued individual imagination, intuition, beauty and nature.
Who is John Keats?