"Ode to a Nightingale"
"Ode on a Grecian Urn"
Biography
Potpourri
Exam Exemptions
100
The nightingale expresses this long-for emotion.
What is joy/happiness?
100
The couple on the urn reminds the speaker that life, unlike art, is this.
What is fleeting/brief?
100
He would eventually become the poet laureate, a role he derided before.
Who is William Wordsworth?
100
that period of history where we started
What is the Anglo-Saxon period?
100
How many absences can you have and still be exempt?
What is 10?
200
The bird inspires the speaker to escape his misery through this.
What is his poetry?
200
He is leading a heifer or cow to sacrifice.
What is the priest?
200
He would die from a disease he contracted on the battlefield.
Who is Byron?
200
Poets and story tellers of Beowulf's time
What are scops?
200
These do not count against you.
What is a field trip?
300
At the end of the poem the speaker wonders if he really saw the bird or if it was this.
What is a dream?
300
What melodies are sweetest?
What is unheard?
300
He shared ideas with his friend Wordsworth.
Who is Samuel Taylor Coleridge?
300
the year of the Norman invasion
What is 1066?
300
Your Semester 1+MP3 average
What is at least 85?
400
The speaker, who is likely Keats himself, is struggling with this emotion.
What is depression?
400
the reassuring nature of the truth revealed in the nightingale's song or the urn
What is enduring?
400
He would later quit poetry and be an essayist instead.
Who is Samuel Taylor Coleridge?
400
A medieval work of the genre that would inspire the poets of this period
What is _Sir Gawain and the Green Knight_?
400
The amount of tardies equal to an absence from class
What is 3?
500
Though the nightingale himself will live a short time, this part of him has endured for centuries.
What is his song?
500
Better than the kiss
What is the pursuit of the kiss?
500
He would spend his last years in the milder climate of Italy hoping thereby to extend his life.
Who is John Keats?
500
The age to come next is named for a long-lived queen.
What is Victorian?
500
The amount of unexcused tardies that eliminates you from consideration
What is 6?
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