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Historical Background: The Victorian Age
Historical Background: The Romantic Period
Name that poet!
Identify this Victorian poem!
Identify this Romantic poem!
100
At the height of the British Empire 1 in ___ people in the world was a subject of Queen Victoria.
What is four?
100
During this time period, England changed from an agricultural society to an ___________ society.
What is industrial?
100
This poet died very young in a boating accident.
Who is Percy Bysshe Shelley?
100
She left the web, she left the loom,/She made three paces through the room,/She saw the water lily bloom,/She saw the helmet and the plume,/She looked down to Camelot. / Out flew the web and floated wide;/The mirror cracked from side to side;/”The curse is come upon me,” cried/The Lady of Shalott.
What is "The Lady of Shallott" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson?
100
“But they are dead; those two are dead!/Their spirits are in heaven!”/‘Twas throwing words away; for still/ The little Maid would have her will,/And say, “Nay, we are seven!”
What is "We Are Seven" by William Wordsworth?
200
During this time period, England provided ________ _________ education (2 words).
What is universal compulsory education?
200
The _______ Revolution and the ________ Revolution occurred during this period.
What are American and French?
200
In 1843 he was named poet laureate of Great Britain. (He also had a very close working relationship with Samuel Taylor Coleridge.)
Who is William Wordsworth?
200
Glory be to God for dappled things – /For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;/For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;/Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls, flinches wings;
What is "Pied Beauty" by Gerard Manley Hopkins? (Terms to study: inscape, instress, sprung rhythm.)
200
So, we’ll go no more a roving/So late into the night,/THough the heart be still as loving/And the moon be still as bright//For the sword outwears its sheath, /And the soul wears out the breast,/And the heart must pause to breathe,/And love itself have rest.
What is "So we'll go no more a roving" by Lord Byron?
300
Queen Victoria and her husband Prince Albert were models of middle-class __________, a highly-prized quality in this time period.
What is domesticity?
300
This traditional role for females was emphasized as part of English national identity.
What is hearth and home? (Or What is domesticity?)
300
After he was effectively exiled from Great Britain after having an incestuous affair with his half sister, this poet became a national hero in Greece.
Who is Lord Byron?
300
Curious Laura chose to linger/Wondering at each merchant man./ One had a cat’s face,/One whisked a tail,/One tramped at a rat’s pace,/One crawled like a snail,/One like a wombat prowled obtuse and furry/One like a ratel tumbled hurry skurry.
What is "Goblin Market" by Christina Rosetti?
300
Milton! thou should’st be living at this hour:/England hath need of thee: she is a fen/Of stagnant waters: altar, sword, and pen
What is "London, 1802" by William Wordsworth?
400
Who wrote this description of the Victorian Age: "Thus, stealthily, and imperceptibly, none marking the exact day or hour of the change, the constitution of England was altered and nobody knew it. Everywhere the effects were felt. The hardy country gentleman, who had sat down gladly to a meal of ale and beef in a room designed, perhaps by the brothers Adam, with classic dignity, now felt chilly. Rugs appeared, beards were grown and trousers fastened tight under the instep. The chill which he felt in his legs he soon transferred to his house; furniture was muffled; walls and tables were covered too. Then a change of diet became essential. The muffin was invented and the crumpet. Coffee supplanted the after-dinner port, and, as coffee led to a drawing-room in which to drink it, and a drawing-room to glass cases, and glass cases to artificial flowers, and artificial flowers to mantelpieces, and mantelpieces to pianofortes, and pianofortes to drawing-room ballads, and drawing-room ballads (skipping a stage or two) to innumerable little dogs, mats, and antimacassars, the home — which had become extremely important — was completely altered."
Who is Virginia Woolf?
400
The three major characteristics of a Byronic hero.
What are melancholy temperament, guilt for something that happened in his past, and striving for something beyond his grasp? (I'll also take "Batman-like".)
400
At a young age, this poet lost his best friend Arthur Hallam (who was also engaged to the poet's sister) and wrote many poems mourning this loss.
Who is Alfred, Lord Tennyson?
400
She had/A heart—how shall I say?—too soon made glad,/Too easily impressed; she like whate’er/She looked on, and her looks went everywhere…as if she ranked/My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name/With anybody’s gift.
What is "My Last Duchess" by Robert Browning?
400
And on the pedestal, these words appear:/My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings,/ Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!/Nothing beside remains
What is "Ozymandias" by Percy Bysshe Shelley?
500
Every Victorian had two ___________. (Hint: Victorians have been called "schizophrenic".)
What are minds?
500
William Wordsworth defined good poetry as not merely an overflow, but as the _______ overflow of feelings.
What is spontaneous?
500
This poet had very strong religious scruples that led her to break off 2 engagements (she never married).Her poems reflected her religious life and contained complex representations of religuos themes like temptation and sin, and redemption by vicarious suffering.
Who is Christina Rosetti?
500
Ah, love, let us be true /To one another! For the world, which seems/To lie before us like a land of dreams/So various, so beautiful, so new,/Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, /Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;/And we are here as on a darkling plain/Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,/Where ignorant armies clash by night.
What is "Dover Beach" by Matthew Arnold?
500
When I have fears that I may cease to be/Before my pen has glean’d my teeming brain,
What is "When I have fears that I may cease to be" by John Keats?