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?
This poet is known for his odes.
Who is Keats?
"What immortal hand or eye / dare frame thy fearful symmetry?"
What is Blake's "The Tyger"?
She "turned her wheel / Beside an English fire."
Who is Lucy?
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 destroyed by the Romanticism test."
What is hyperbole?
This poet is known for his social commentary and use of religious imagery.
Who is Blake?
"Nothing beside remains."
What is "Ozymandias"?
Blake offered paired poems, which contrasted and compared with each other, under these two headings.
Who are (songs of) 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"?
The phrase "frail bark" in Shelley's "To Wordsworth" can be interpreted in these two ways.
What are (1) Wordsworth's voice, and (2) a ship on the sea.
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? EXTRA CREDIT: What poetic technique is employed in the lines ("Then naked & white, all their bags left behind, / They rise upon clouds, and sport in the wind")?
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 (in "Ozymandias")?
Did you think Keats, because of “Ode on a Grecian Urn”? You’d be right if you backed it up with evidence (which would be...?).
"Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought / As doth eternity"
What is Keats' "Ode on a Grecian Urn"?
He is being referred to by the lines "In honoured poverty thy voice did weave / Songs consecrate to truth and liberty"
Who is Wordsworth?