Romanticism Concepts
This concept, central to Romanticism, describes a feeling of awe mixed with terror when humans confront the overwhelming power of nature; what is it?
The Sublime
What centurieS was Romanticism part of?
late 18th and 19th
The Sun
3
"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" was inspired by William Wordsworth’s walk with which relative?
his sister
How did the Romantics view childhood?
Similar answer to this: idealized children as innocent, pure, and closer to divine wisdom than adults - children free from adult world
Which area of the world did Romanticism originate in?
Europe -
How many stanzas are there in the poem?
3
What is the Egyptian name of the pharoah described in the poem?
Ramses II
Wordsworth describes clouds floating 'over vales and hills' What is a vale?
A valley or depression between two hills
Who is considered the father of Romanticism?
A) Rousseau
B) Blake
C) Coleridge
Rousseau
What is the novel composed by Percy Shelley's wife, which is said to explore Romantic ideas?
Frankenstein
In Ode to Autumn, Autumn is personified as a female sitting on a ________ floor?
Granary
What adjective is NOT used in the poem?
A) Solitary
B) Boundless
C) Colossal
Solitary
Wordsworth describes the daffodils as “jocund company”. What does jocund mean?
happy, joyful
Caspar David Friedrich's painting is said to be the quintessential portrayal of Romanticism. What was it called? Wandered above the Sea of ______?
Wordsworth and Coleridge sought to democratize poetry and use the language of the common people rather than elite society. True or False?
True
What adjective does Keat's NOT use in his poem?
A) Mellow
B) Abundant
C) Mossed
Abundant - while the poem is about abundance, the word itself does not appear
The artefact that inspired Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Ozymandias was based on a fragmented statue of a Pharoah from which museum?
British Museum
Wordsworth describes that he thinks of the daffodils when he is in vacant or _______ mood. Fill in the word.
Pensive
The Romantics shifted from the neoclassical hero to the 'Byronic hero'. What were the traits of the Byronic hero?
A) Rational, Open-minded, Religious
B) Dreamy, Sociable, Altruistic
C) Melancholy, Antisocial, Defiant
C) Melancholy, Antisocial, Defiant
This line from the poem uses a feature of the Petrarchan sonnet:
"Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they?”
What is it?
The volta
What is the last line of the poem? Fill in the blanks
The __________________________________ away
The lone and level sands stretch far away
Each of the stanzas in Wordsworth's poem follow the same rhyme scheme. What is it?
ABABCC