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1
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The manhunt

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By simon armitage

Wife trying to help husband after war

Written 2007

After afganistan

2
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Sonnet 43

A

Elizabeth barrett browning

About husband to be

3
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London

A

William blake

French Revolution

4
Q

The soldier

A

Rupert brooke

WW1

Patrioism

5
Q

She walks in beauty

A

Lord byron

About his cousin

Known as mad bad and dangerous to know

6
Q

Living space

A

Imtiaz dharker

Slums in mumbai

7
Q

As imperceptibly as grief

A

Emily Dickinson

Lived next to a grave yard lots of people she knew were dying

8
Q

Cozy apologia

A

Rita dove

For her husband fred

9
Q

Valentine

A

Carol ann duffy

Gay opressed in society

10
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A wife in london

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Thomas hardy

Wife learns husbands death from letter and his wish to return home

11
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Death of a naturalist

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Seamus heaney

School trip tad poles goes back when hes older

12
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Hawk roosting

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Ted Hughes

Romantic poet

13
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To autumn

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John keats

Had cancer

Walking through woods in autumn wrote what he sae

14
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Afternoons

A

Philip larkin

Middle aged

15
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Dulce et decorum est

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Wilfred owen

Served in ww1

Gas was banned in ww2 horrific

16
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Ozymandias

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Percy bysshe shelley

17
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Mametz wood

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Owen sheers

About french farmers finding welsh bodie in thier fields

18
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The prelude

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William wordsworth