What are some of the challenges faced during the Romantic Era?
Homelessness
Poverty
Child Labor issues
100
“Then down a green plain leaping, laughing they run”
Alliteration
100
Who wrote, edited and printed his own work?
William Blake
200
"She Walks in Beauty"
Who is Lord Byron
200
Marlowe
What is Renaissance
200
What is Laissez Faire government?
Government should not interfere with business practices.
200
“All in a hot and copper sky/the bloody Sun at noon,
Right up against the mast did stand, no bigger than the moon.”
Imagery
200
Which poet dropped out of college, collaborated with Wordsworth and had a serious laudanum addiction?
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
300
"The Passionate Shephard to His Love"
Who is Marlowe?
300
William Blake
What is Romantic
300
What did the Romantic poets like to explore in their writing?
Nature, youth and emotions
300
“When she I loved looked every day/Fresh as a rose in June”
Simile
300
Which poet lost his parents at a young age, later his brother and died himself at age 25?
John Keats
400
"The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd"
Who is Sir Walter Raleigh?
400
Percy Shelley
What is Romantic?
400
The imagination drives the mind to know and to learn
What did the Romantics believe about the imagination?
400
“The sun came up upon the left/Out of the sea came he!
And he shone bright and on the right/went down into the sea”
Personification
400
Which poet eloped with a sixteen year old girl, left her three years later for a seventeen year old and died when he refused to abandon his boat in a violent storm?
Percy Shelley
500
"The Chimney Sweeper"
Who is Blake?
500
Herrick
What is Renaissance?
500
What years did the Romantic Era span?
1798-1832
500
Metaphor
“Thou still unravished bride of quietness, Thou foster child of silence and slow time”
500
Which famously handsome poet became a baron at age ten, was famous for his romantic affairs and had a club foot?