This replaced the cross hanging around the Ancient Mariner.
What is "the albatross"
100
Romanticism as a poetic movement began late in this century.
What is "the 18th century"
100
Be careful! This measurement category, while it appears to, does not actually come from the root "temp", but rather from a Latin verb meaning "to be moderate."
What is "temperature"
100
This war influenced Wordsworth heavily.
What is "the French Revolution."
100
Kubla Khan built his palace in this, possibly mythical, place.
What is "Xanadu."
200
For most of the poem, this character is the narrator.
Who is "The Ancient Mariner"
200
With the publication of Lyrical Ballads these two English poets launched their spectacular careers.
Who are "Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth"
200
The English words "contain", "tenant" and "retention" all come from a root which means this.
What is "to hold"
200
Lord Byron died attempting to liberate this country from the Ottoman Empire.
What is Greece.
200
These geological formations are "measureless to man" and themselves sink into the ocean.
What are "caverns or caves."
300
To be closer to this, the Ancient Mariner had to learn how to appreciate even the most disgusting of God's creatures.
What is "Nature"
300
Romantic poets, unlike their Classical predecessors, favored this type of language over complicated, intricate metaphors and analogies.
What is "simple, or more direct language"
300
Words such as "evacuate" and "vacuum" come from this root, meaning "empty."
What is "-vac"
300
Coleridge's "Kubla Khan" deals with an historical ruler of the lands which make up this central Asian country.
What is Mongolia.
300
The pleasure dome arises out of this, an empty, gaping hole in the earth.
What is "a chasm"
400
Shortly after this oddly named character appears, the Ancient Mariner's men begin to die.
Who is "Life-in-Death"
400
Wordsworth and other Romantics were trying to create a new poetry that emphasized this as opposed to reason.
What is "intuition or feelings"
400
"Attract", "retract" and "distract" all come from "-tract" which means this.
What is "to pull, draw"
400
Romantics were rebelling against the norms and traditions passed down to them by poets during this "age."
What is "Classical"
400
At the end of the poem, the narrator says that all who witness his creative power will be filled with this, slightly contradictory emotion.
What is "holy dread"
500
The Abyssinian maid played this instrument.
What is "a dulcimer"
500
Some critics believe that this religious "-ism", which states that observation and reason are enough to determine that there is a Creator, had an influence on Early Romanticism
What is "Deism"
500
The Roman God Terminus held dominion over this line - Roman belief held that once it was moved forward and expanded, retreating back would mean an ominous end to the Empire.
What is "the boundary of the Empire."
500
From Beethoven to Wordsworth - this petite French dictator disillusioned many in the Romantic movement.
Who is Napoleon.
500
If the chasm is to represent a chaotic or destructive force inherent to the world, then the pleasure dome, created out of the chaos, represents this to the artist.