Killer Waves. Photograph by Deshakalyan Chowdhury/AFP/Getty Images. A tsunami is a series of ocean waves that sends surges of water, sometimes reaching heights of over 100 feet (30.5 meters), onto land. These walls of water can cause widespread destruction when they crash ashore.hotograph by Deshakalyan Chowdhury/AFP/Getty Images. A tsunami is a series of ocean waves that sends surges of water, sometimes reaching heights of over 100 feet (30.5 meters), onto land.
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Ethel Greenglass Rosenberg (September 28, 1915 â June 19, 1953) and Julius Rosenberg (May 12, 1918 â June 19, 1953) were American communists who were convicted and executed in 1953 for conspiracy to commit espionage during a time of war.
Background to the poem. Betjeman imagines the moment when the dramatist, writer and flamboyant wit Oscar Wilde is arrested by police on 6 April 1895. Wilde was charged with gross indecency and, at a time when homosexuality was illegal, he was sentenced to two yearsâ hard labour. The prison regime was brutal and, although he was released in 1897, he died three years later in exile in France.