Chapter 12 Flashcards
In the poem Song, what does Christina Rossetti tell her dearest to be when she is dead?
She tells them not to weep for her or sing sad songs, but to be the green grass above her.
In the poem A Better Resurrection, what are the three requests she makes of Jesus?
For Jesus 1) to quicken her, 2) to rise in her, and 3) to drink of her.
In God’s Grandeur, what does Gerard Manley Hopkins say that man has done to the world?
The generations have trod on the world, smearing it with toil and searing it with trade, making it ugly.
In the same poem, what does the Holy Ghost do?
He bends over the world and broods and nurtures it with warm breast and bright wings.
In Pied Beauty, what does Hopkins tell everything in creation to do?
He tells everything to praise God.
What was the Pre-Raphaelite Movement?
It was a movement to go back before the rise of Raphael and Renaissance art to the Middle Ages, which this movement imagined as a romantic setting of knights and ladies.
Who is one of the painters who is part of the Pre-Raphaelite Movement?
William Waterhouse
What is a sonnet?
It is a poem of fourteen lines of iambic pentameter.
What is enjambment in poetry?
Poetry in which a sentence wraps or continues from one line to the next.
What perspective does Hopkins have about nature?
He believed it all shows the beauty and loveliness of God, even though it has been changed and spoiled by man.
