1st Generation Poets
2nd Generation Poets
Background
Influences
Potpourri
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In this poem, the speaker is a child who is asking another creature if it knew who made him. This poem includes symbols of purity, innocence, and makes references to Christ.

"The Lamb" by William Blake

100
How many of these poets lived to be 40?
None. 
100

The dominant literary form of the Romantic period


Poetry
100

Where did Romantic author find inspiration for their works?

Examples: Tintern Abbey, Ode to the West Wind, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

Nature
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Romanticism is a reaction against
Neoclassicism 
200

In this poem, the creature being described is the opposite of a lamb. It includes images of fire, heat, and brightness. The speaker wonders if the creator of this creature is good or evil.

"The Tyger" by William Blake
200

This poem's speaker believes a woman's outer beauty can reflect her inner beauty. The woman's beauty is compared to a night sky.

"She Walks in Beauty" by Lord Byron
200
Romantics believed that all men had the right to __________, so many supported revolution. 
freedom
200
Name a country whose politics or writers had an impact on the Romantic Era in England. 
France

Germany

200
Artist felt cut off from ___________ and many traveled to or chose to live in other countries. 
society
300

This poem is about an old sailor who kills an albatross on the ocean, is brought home by a spirit, and is punished by having to tell his story over and over.

"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

300

In this poem, a broken statue is all that remains of a great king's legacy. It is ironic that his earthly accomplishments did not last as he thought they would.

"Ozymandias" by Percy Shelley
300
Where people lived and worked was influenced by the ____________ Revolution in England. 


Included a move from agricultural to _____________. 

Industrial
300
What sort of character was glorified in Romantic writings? 
Sensitive, doomed, rejected, secularized Christ-figure, non-conformist
300
Her works were some of the first feminist writings 
Mary Wollstonecraft
400
The words from the title "Lyrical Ballads" are both terms usually associated with...
Music
400
This poem of 5 connected sonnets gives a vision to the future and the optimism that things can always get better. 
"Ode to the West Wind" by Percy Bysshe Shelley
400

The publication of this by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth marked the beginning of the Romantic time period.

 Lyrical Ballads
400

Rousseau's book Emile espoused that __________ was the seat of creativity and genius. 

Childhood
400
Who is the German author who wrote a very popular story about a doomed and impractical love affair that demonstrated the idea that one should "follow your heart."
Goethe
500
Poem named after a location visited during the author's walk with his sister
"Tintern Abbey" by William Wordsworth
500
In this poem, the poet demonstrates a melancholy about his mortality compared to the immortality he sees in nature. 
"Ode to a Nightingale" by John Keats
500

The publication of this by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth was important in the poems that it contained, but this specific part of it defined the writing of the Romantic Era. 

The "Preface" 
500

In his book The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith described a philosophy called ________ ________ that prescribed a "hands off" or non-interfering government. 

Laissez Faire
500
The two crew members of the spectre ship are... 

Life-in-Death and Death

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