Author Biographies | Influences and Characteristics of Romanticism | Burns, Blake, and Keats | William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge | Lord Byron and Percy/MaryShelley |
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Who is William Blake?
This poet is known for their illustrations and engravings.
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What are Industrialism, The French Revolution, and the Napoleonic wars?
These three historic events greatly influenced and perpetuated the Romantic Era.
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What is "That they oft go array". He is speaking to the helplessness on the part of humans which brings regret and fear.
In Robbie Burns' poem "To a Mouse", what is his opinion on "the best-laid schemes" of mice and men?
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What are the corrupting power of society and the restorative quality of nature?
In Wordsworth's sonnet "The World is Too much With Us", what characteristics of Romanticism does he focus on?
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What is the neglect and feeling like he doesn't belong in society?
In Byron's "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage", what causes him to leave on an isolated pilgrimage?
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Who is William Wordsworth?
This poet from the Lake District is known as the "Father of Romanticism". His publication of Lyrical Ballads (Ital.) welcomed poetry's shift to subjective experience.
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What is Transcendentalism?
This idea that God is within us and that we are one with nature began in England, then spread to America through the poetry of Emerson and Thoreau.
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What is God's creative hand over the innocent and the evil.
In William Blake's "The Lamb" and "The Tyger", what do these two poems symbolize?
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What is the ability to evoke wonder?
In Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey", what quality of nature does he focus on?
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What is the ocean?
In Byron's "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage", what natural power does he praise in Canto IV?
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Who is Samuel Taylor Coleridge?
This poet dropped out of Cambridge to help start a utopian, egalitarian society. He suffered from manic depression and became addicted to opium.
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What is Primitivism?
This ideal is rooted in the belief that society is the result of human misery (not sin), therefore you listen to feelings and intuition.
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What are the woman and man in a chase, the piper playing a sweet melody, and the procession leaving the towns for a sacrifice?
In Keat's poem "Ode on a Grecian Urn", what are the three main images he sees on the urn?
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What is killing the Albatross, which is a crime against nature?
In Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner", what grave sin does the Mariner commit?
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What are the leaves, clouds, and sea?
In Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind", what three things does the wind have power over?
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Who is Robbie Burns?
This poet started out as a poor peasant farmer but then went on to write folksongs in the Scottish dialect where he took a stand against authority and showed love for his fellow countrymen.
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What are Nature and Intuition? (would accept perception)
Romantics believe that truth comes from these two things.
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What is his fear of failing to accomplish all the writing he set out to do?
In Keat's poem "When I Have Fears", what part of death does he fear?
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What is experiencing physical, mental, and spiritual anguish as well as sharing his story wherever he goes?
In Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner", what is his penance?
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What is "Look on my works, ye mighty and despair"? It is ironic that nothing beside it remains.
In Shelley's "Ozymandias", what is ironic about the inscription on the pedestal?
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Who is Lord Byron?
This poet, son of Captain "Mad Jack", had a tough upbringing full of abuse and teasing for his clubfoot, and attended Cambridge University. His debaucherous lifestyle earned him the tagline "mad, bad, and dangerous to know". Later in life, he was known for his involvement in Greek politics.
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What is Emphasis on the Individual
Romantic poetry, through emotion and imagination, placed great value in this.
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What is the cycle of life?
In Keat's poem "Autumn", what does the season represent?
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What is "Kubla Kahn"?
Which unfinished poem by Coleridge is based on a dream?
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What are "Vindication on the Rights of Women" and "Frankenstein"
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly wrote which two main works? (hint: one is a novel and one is an essay)
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