EdDUQAS poetry anthology - content

Stages of life, how we are born, grow and die – represented through seasons (growth, harvest, death)

• To Autumn
• The Manhunt
• Cosy Apologia
• Imperceptible as Grief

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A wife describing her husband's mental and physical injuries received from war.

• The Manhunt
• The Soldier
• Ozymandias
• To Autumn

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A woman who was forbidden to be with her love so she sends him this love note

• Ozymandias
• Afternoons
• Sonnet 43
• Mametz Wood

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The poet is describing the benefits of serving in war as it's patriotic

• The Soldier
• Dulce et Decorum Est
• The Manhunt 
• Death of  A Naturalist

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Cosy Apologia

• A man reminiscing on his childhood loves of nature, and his opinions about nature now
• A gas attack in war and the poet's descriptions of its effects
• A poem expressing her love for her husband Fred, incorporating seasons and references to her childhood boyfriends  
• A woman describing nature outside of her window

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A traveller describing the remains of the pharaoh's statue 

• Ozymandias
• The Prelude
• Death of a Naturalist
• Hawk Roosting

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Hawk Roosting

• The poet writing from the hawk's perspective, showing that he has the power over everything 
• a poem from a man's perspective describing a hawk in a tree
• A telegraph received stating that the wife's husband died in battle. Then the next day she received a letter from him
• Bodies found from soldiers who fought in battle 85 years later

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Describing the miracle of slums in Mumbai 

• Living Space
• Mametz Wood
• She Walks in Beauty
• London

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LONDON

• How powerful people are in control of everything, reference to poverty
• Describing the miracle of slums in Mumbai 
• Bodies found from soldiers who fought in battle 85 years later
• A telegraph received stating that the wife's husband died in battle. Then the next day she received a letter from him  

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Bodies found from soldiers who fought in battle 85 years later

• Mametz Wood
• London
• The Soldier
• Dulce et Decorum Est