The Restoration
In the opening of Paradise Lost, Satan discusses his plans with this fallen angel.
Who is Beelzebub?
The Romantics were inspired by the social upheaval of this movement, which took place in a country across the English Channel.
What is the French Revolution?
One of modernism's major themes addresses this feeling, which resulted from increased isolation and an urbanized society.
What is alienation?
"One who brings
A mind not to be chang'd by Place or Time.
The mind is its own place, and in it self
Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n."
What is Paradise Lost?
This type of poem has 14 lines and a "turn" at the end.
What is a sonnet?
During the Commonwealth, this man ruled as Lord Protector.
Who is Oliver Cromwell?
For the Romantics, this force was seen as "transformative," and they thought it mirrored the properties of the human mind.
What is nature?
Modernist poetry often focuses on this type of figurative language, involving sharp language that appeals to the senses.
What is imagery?
"Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;"
What is "The Second Coming"?
Due to its length, beginning in medias res and its elevated subject and style, Paradise Lost is an example of this type of poem.
What is an epic poem?
In the opening stanza of Paradise Lost, Milton addresses the “Heavenly Muse,” which is an example of which epic poetry convention.
What is an invocation to the muse?
Romantics used simple, unadorned language to speak of this subject.
What is personal experiences and emotions?
Modernist poetry often uses this narrative technique, which attempts to mirror the "flow" of the brain's thoughts and reactions.
What is stream of consciousness?
"In the room the women come and go
Talking of Michelangelo.
What is "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"?
Swift's "A Modest Proposal" is an example of this genre, which uses humor and exaggeration to criticize human vices.
What is satire?
In Paradise Lost, Satan ends up in hell after doing this.
What is rebelling against God?
Romantics turned away from the eighteenth-century on these qualities and toward imagination and naturalness.
What is reason and artifice?
Modernists often experimented with this structure, which pertains to how words are arranged in a sentence?
What is syntax?
"Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;—
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!"
What is "The World Is Too Much With Us"?
Due to its length and serious subject, Keats' "Grecian Urn" is an example of this type of lyric poetry.
What is an ode?
During the English Civil War, the Royalists fought against this group.
What are the Parliamentarians?
In the preface to Lyrical Ballads, Wordsworth wrote that poetry was the spontaneous overflow of this quality.
What are powerful feelings?
Coined by Ezra Pound, this slogan became the rallying cry behind Modernism, emphasizing the movement's focus on breaking with the past.
What is "make it new"?
"...this prodigious number of children in the arms, or on the backs, or at the heels of their mothers, and frequently of their fathers, is in the present deplorable state of the kingdom, a very great additional grievance; and therefore whoever could find out a fair, cheap and easy method of making these children sound and useful members of the commonwealth..."
What is "A Modest Proposal"?
Keats' "Grecian Urn" is an example of this type of poem, which describes a work of art.
Ekphrastic poem