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Quotation Identification
Romantic Poets
Historical Influence
Why Romantic?
Poetic Devices
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The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;
The World is Too Much With Us, by William Wordsworth
100
He created rebellious heroes whose ironic attitude and hidden sorrow only added to their charm
Lord Byron
100
Created his own type of ode
John Keats
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
"With heavy thump/ a lifeless lump"
Internal Rhyme
200
Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird! No hungry generations tread thee down;
Ode to a Nightingale, by John Keats
200
Which poet had his sister taken away from him and moved across the country after the death of his parents?
William Wordsworth
200
These were 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)
200
"One shade the more, one ray the less,"
Assonance
300
"Gave thee such a tender voice, Making all the vales rejoice?"
The Lamb, Songs of Innocence, by William Blake
300
He considered "the sublime" to be the high he experienced from using opiates
Coleridge
300
A compilation of poems written by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge that were released to the public and highly experimental.
Lyrical Ballads
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
(The Pilot made reply) 'I am a-feared' - 'Push on, push on!' Said the Hermit cheerily
Slant Rhyme
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!"
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
400
Earned his pharmacist's license before abandoning medicine for the literary world
John Keats
400
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.
The Industrial Revolution
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.)
400
"He is meek and he is mild"
Alliteration
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
3 Romantic poets who we have been studying.
William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Blake, Lord Byron, John Keats
500
This poem was written after the author was moved by the French Revolution to denounce what he saw as the self- absorption and falseness of the English people
London, 1802
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
"The thick black cloud was cleft"
Consonance