AQA Power and Conflict Poems – Notes on Context | KS4 Teaching Resource
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Click here to access a Word document with brief notes on the context of each poem from the AQA Power and Conflict cluster. For example…
London, by William Blake
- The French Revolution began in 1789 and ‘London’ was published in 1792
- The Haitian Revolution, where slaves successfully liberated themselves from French colonial rule, took place in 1791
- Blake initially associated the French Revolution with progress towards greater equality
- However, he was later disturbed by the violence that came with it
- England was in the middle of the Industrial Revolution and cities were expanding rapidly, leading to pollution and over-crowding
The document should be easy to edit and hope it’s useful –
Doug
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