Chapter 7 Flashcards
In She Walks in Beauty, Byron says that “one shade the more, one ray the less” would do what?
It would half impair the nameless grace she has.
The last word in the poem is what?
innocent
In Ode to the West Wind, Shelley compares himself to a dead leaf and a cloud doing what?
The wind carries the dead leaf, and the cloud flies with the wind.
In that same stanza, Shelley calls the wind what?
He calls the wind uncontrollable, strong, speedy, tameless, swift, and proud.
Who were three of the figures of the second generation of Romantics?
Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, and John Keats
What were the circumstances of Lord Byron’s death?
He goes to fight for the Greeks, who were fighting for independence against the Ottoman Empire, contracted a disease, and died.
In On Looking into Chapman’s Homer, Keats says he felt like some watcher seeing what?
A watcher of the skies seeing a new planet come into his sights.
What is an anapestic foot in poetry?
A three-syllable metrical foot in which the first two syllables are unstressed and the third is stressed.
After Shelley dies at sea, what do his friends do with his body?
They burned his body on a funeral pyre.
Who was the wife of Shelley, and what did she write?
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
