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Masters of the Craft
How They Do
Romantic Thoughts
What the Heck is This?
Mixing it Up
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This master of words was considered the "father of the Romantic movement."
Who is William Wordsworth?
100
An easy "a" that is found in nearly every Romantic poem.
What is alliteration?
100
The second tenet of Romanticism that insists one form of life is more important than another.
What is nature over humans?
100
This poem is a traditional sonnet form and the thoughts it expresses about nature are lyrical.
What is "The World is Too Much With Us"?
100
Memories and a childhood in nature are the subject of this blank verse, narrative poem.
What is "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey"?
200
This talented poet died tragically, at his zenith.
Who is John Keats?
200
Triton and Proteus make an appearance as this device in one Romantic sonnet.
What is allusion?
200
Synonym: Feelings finder.
What are emotional explorers?
200
Telling a story of his youth and making hopes for his son's future, this poem is both narrative and written in imperfect blank verse.
What is "Frost at Midnight"?
200
"Sordid boon" is this poetic device, and is used in this poem.
What is paradox in "The World is Too Much With Us"?
300
A handsome party boy, this poet wrote lots of lines for the ladies.
Who is George Gordon, Lord Byron?
300
One sonnet relies completely on this device to reveal the futility of human life in the larger scope of the universe.
What is metaphor?
300
This belief isn't really logical, but it sure feels good.
What is the celebration of emotion over reason?
300
This narrative poem is highly disjointed; each stanza presents a completely different meter, rhyme scheme, and tone.
What is "Kubla Khan"?
300
These are the fears expressed by the youngest Romantic poet.
What is that he will never be a great poet, fully explore nature, or find love?
400
This poet had a BFF who was called the "father of the Romantic movement" - that's a lot to live up to!
Who is Samuel Taylor Coleridge?
400
The two devices used in this passage: "The Sea that bares her bosom to the moon."
What are alliteration (bares...bosom) and personification?
400
The tenet that favors average Joes.
What is ordinary people over aristocrats?
400
Especially poignant because the author died young, this sonnet is lyrical in content and presents a perfect Shakespearean rhyme scheme.
What is "When I Have Fears"?
400
The focus/tone of each stanza in this visionary poem.
What is a dream, a nightmare, and a metaphor expressing the poet's desires?
500
This poet was only 36 when he died in a storm at sea.
Who is Percy Bysshe Shelley?
500
The tone conveyed in this passage and the device used to convey it: "Great God! I'd rather be a Pagan suckled in a creed outworn."
What is anger through metaphor?
500
The romantic tenet that suggests humans need to stop trying to change nature.
What is nature as a wild and untamed force?
500
This poem is addressed to an inanimate object and portrays the idea that art is meaningful to all humanity.
What is "Ode on a Grecian Urn"?
500
The poem that relies on an image of a shattered statue in the sand and what that image means.
What is "Ozymandias," which reveals a commentary on the weakness of political "power" and the futility of human life in the larger scope of time?