2nd gen of Romantic Poets

Question 1

poetry is not useful in order to satirise a society, it’s a way to express personal views

Answer 1

keats

Question 2

poetry is a powerful vehicle that could contribute to a revolution of society

Answer 2

p shelley

Question 3

poets are the unaknowledged legislators of the world

Answer 3

p shelley

Question 4

he gives his idea on themes like marriage, church, family

Answer 4

p shelley

Question 5

through imagination the poet can conduct to sensory severies, in which sometimes he gets lost. the poetry of this authour is centred on the dimension that man can achieve in a particular circumstance…in fact he introduces themes like human life and the eternity of love

Answer 5

keats

Question 6

he’s the archetype of the 2nd gen of romantic poets

Answer 6

byron

Question 7

he’s attached to the neoclassical wit and irony

Answer 7

byron

Question 8

byronic

Answer 8

inspired by the characteristics of byron’s heros in his poems: handsome, solitary, inclined to melancholy

Question 9

explain the phonemenom that inspired The Darkness by byron

Answer 9

mass of hysterya
death of the sun
apocalypse

Question 10

who’s the protagonist of byron’s poem, that represents the term “byronic”?

Answer 10

don juan

Answer 11

• shelley thinks that poetry is somthing divine.
• he’s not capable of expressing the visions he’s feeling through words.
• words fail, because they’re material; there’s instead the desire of transcending human limitations, maybe through the identification with birds, spirits and elements.
• it seems like he writes something, but behind it hides some inexpressible absolute
• poetry is too big for words
• he’s distiguished by his sustained and heightened intensity of tone
• he’s attached to the element of air
• “poetry is at once the centre and the circumference of knowledge”

Question 12

ozymandias

Answer 12

p shelley

Question 13

what does ozymandias mean?

Answer 13

it’s the greek name of the egyptian king ramses II