Romantics
Who wrote "Tintern Abbey"?
Wordsworth
What is Ulysses's Greek name?
Odysseus
Who wrote "A Modest Proposal"?
Swift
What poet writes that he "sang in my chains like the sea"?
Thomas
Which of Byron's poems invokes the myth of Hero and Lyander?
"Swimming From Sestos to Abydos"
What is "This Lime Tree Bower My Prison" about?
How Coleridge can't go walking with his friends but still hopes they have a lovely time.
What is Tithonus's problem?
Wished for immortality but not eternal youth.
Who wrote the first English dictionary?
Johnson
What Greek myth does "Musee des Beaux Arts" allude to?
Icarus
To what animal did Keats write an Ode?
Nightingale
Finish the line: "the world is too much with us; _____ & _____."
"Late" and "soon."
What was the duke's problem with the duchess?
That she didn't value him, and his name, above everyone else.
How does Swift prove his objectivity, at the end of his pamphlet?
He says he has no children to be sold, so wouldn't profit.
What kind of poem is "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night"?
Villanelle
Give me the next line: "Beauty is truth, truth beauty,--that is all"
"Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."
(has to be close)
Essentially, Coleridge was never young. He knows the mind can make beautiful things. His just doesn't, really.
Finish the line: "there she stands / as if _____."
Alive
Tell me one thing Johnson says about how language works.
It decays over time; they mix across cultures and trades; all a dictionary can do is give you the corpse of it; etc.
What's the main problem in "Dulce et Decorum Est"?
Gas attack
What is "On this Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year" about?
Byron is getting old, and he wants to trade his personal anxieties for more stereotypically masculine motivations.
What is "Ode:Intimations of Immortality" about?
Wordsworth theory about age and innocence, and how one robs from the other.
What is Childe Roland's great quest?
To find and defeat The Dark Tower
What is "A Modest Proposal" actually about?
Helping the poor in Ireland
What world event is Larkin's "MCMXIV" about?
World War I
What country did Byron help in their fight for independence?
Greece