Romanticism
Admiration for this is found in almost all of the Romantic works.
What is nature?
"Sordid boon" is an example of this figurative language.
What is an oxymoron?
Bashō wrote this kind of poem.
What are haikus?
"What immortal hand or eye / dare frame thy fearful symmetry?"
What is Blake's "The Tyger"?
An example of this type of poem is "Whose woods these are I think I know / his house is in the village though / he will never see me / stopping right here with thee / to watch his woods fill up with snow."
What is a Limerick?
Romantics favor this over reason and logic, in reaction to the Enlightenment.
What is emotion?
An example of this use of figurative language would be to say, "I'm going to be obliterated by the Poetry test."
What is hyperbole?
This poet was known for his Imagist poetry.
Who is William Carlos Williams?
"Nothing beside remains."
What is "Ozymandias"?
Blake often paired poems under these two headings, which contrast with each other.
Who are innocence and experience?
These two recent eras (and the changes they brought) influenced the Romantics.
What are the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution?
This form of figurative language involves repetition of identical vowel sounds in different words in close proximity.
What is assonance?
This poet emphasized the transportive power of nature and memory.
Who is Wordsworth?
"To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, / To slowly trace the forest's shady scene"
What is Byron's "Solitude"?
This writer offered "I know he'd be a poorer man if he never saw an eagle fly."
Who is John Denver?
Who offered the similar thought "I gazed—and gazed—but little thought / what wealth the show to me had brought"?
Romantics write about protecting these from the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution.
What are children?
These are the three parts of a Petrarchan sonnet.
What are the octave, volta, and sestet?
This poet felt more alone in a crowd than in nature
Who is Byron?
"I gazed—and gazed—but little thought / What wealth the show to me had brought"
What is "The Daffodils" (or "I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud")?
In the lines "Then naked & white, all their bags left behind, / They rise upon clouds, and sport in the wind" the words "bags" refers to what three things?
What are the chimney sweepers' bodies, work bags, and troubles?
Blake and other Romantics viewed faith and spirituality as worthwhile, but criticized this.
What is organized religion?
This figure of speech shows a speaker addressing a person, idea, or thing not present.
What is apostrophe?
This poet explored themes around time, persistence, and the value of art in passing along stories.
Who is Shelley (as in "Ozymandias")?
"Forgive me / they were delicious / so sweet / and so cold."
This work offered the lines "Did you make disease and the diamond blue? / Did you make mankind after we made you?"
What is "Dear God"?
If you thought "The Tyger," finish the stanza "When the stars threw down their spears, / and water’d heaven with their tears, / did he smile his work to see? / Did he who made _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _?"