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Quotation Identification
Romantic Poets
Historical Influence
Why Romantic?
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"For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon my inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude" Title and Author?
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, by William Wordsworth
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What traumatic event happened to William Blake between Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience?
The death of his brother Robert.
100
Who wrote Lyrical Ballads?
William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
100
"Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendor, valley, rock or hill: Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!"
This poem is Romantic because it expresses the calm feelings of the individual because of nature as the speaker sees beautiful country scenery. (William Wordsworth, Westminster Bridge)
100
In what century did the Romantic period take place?
The 1700s
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"Hush, Tom! never mind it, for when your head's bare You know that the soot cannot spoil your white hair." Title and Author?
The Chimney Sweeper, Songs of Innocence, by William Blake
200
Which poet had his sister taken away from him and moved across the country after the death of his parents?
William Wordsworth
200
Name 2 ways that the Industrial Revolution affected the Romantics?
1. More people moved from the country into the cities. 2. Women and children were offered jobs and made the cities huge. 3. Factories were created to constantly use workers and the Romantics felt that it was worse than death. 4. The Romantics completely rejected the Romantic period.
200
"The smiles that win, the tints that glow, But tell of days in goodness spent, A mind at peace with all below, A heart whose love is innocent!"
This poem is Romantic because it explores an everyday feeling of love and infatuation, and also glorifies beauty. (She Walks in Beauty, Lord Byron)
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What is the name of the school of poets that included Wordsworth, Blake, and Coleridge?
The Lake District Poets
300
"Gave thee such a tender voice, Making all the vales rejoice?" Title and Author?
The Lamb, Songs of Innocence, by William Blake
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What did Coleridge consider "the sublime"?
The high he experienced from using opiates.
300
What is Lyrical Ballads?
A compilation of poems written by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge that were released to the public and highly experimental.
300
"Waters on a starry night Are beautiful and fair; The sunshine is a glorious birth; But yet I know, where'er I go, That there hath past away a glory from the earth."
This is a Romantic poem because it appreciates and glorifies the beauty of nature. It makes the speaker sem small in vast relation to all that is created on the earth. (William Wordsworth, Ode: Intimations of Immortality)
300
Name 3 instances of symbolism in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and what they represent.
1. The Albatross 2. The man's eye and beard 3. The weather 4. The sinking ship 5. The skeleton - death
400
"The ice was here, the ice was there, The ice was all around; It cracked and growled, and roared and howled, Like noises in a swound!" Title and Author?
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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How is Coleridge different from the other Romantic poets?
Instead of writing about everyday events, he wrote narrative stories that involved the sublime and the supernatural. He also wrote more about his own children than other Romantic poets.
400
What was the Industrial Revolution?
The beginning of mass production, including factories that caused an increase of work and an inflation of the economy. The Romantics rejected this revolution and supported the opposite - living in nature.
400
"She said: and more she could not say: For what she knew she could not tell, O'er-mastered by the mighty spell."
This poem is Romantic because it involves the supernatural (spell) as well as involving the regular human emotions (shock). (Christabel, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - About snake women who seduce and eat other women.)
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What began the breaking of the curse in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner?
The albatross falling away from around his neck and into the sea.
500
"Five years have passed; five summers, with the length Of five long winters! and again I hear These waters..." Title and Author?
Tintern Abbey, William Wordsworth
500
Name 3 Romantic poets that we have been studying.
William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and William Blake.
500
What work is considered to be the "birth" of the Romantic period?
Lyrical Ballads
500
"That very day, From a bare ridge we also first beheld Unveiled the summit of Mont Blanc, and grieved To have a soulless image on the eye Which had usurped upon a living thought That never more could be."
This poem is Romantic because it describes the human emotion of wonder as well as clearly describing the scenery and admiring its undeniable beauty.
500
Who does William Blake suggest made The Lamb? What about the Tyger?
God made the Lamb, and he questions if God also made the Tyger - "who DARE frame thy fearful symmetry?"