English Test- Romantic Poetry Flashcards
What are the ideas/characteristics of Romanticism?
Idealistic view and good for society
Nature was the best teacher
Nature brings you closer to God
Freedom/Liberty
Individual Expression
How is Romanticism a rebellion?
It goes against old beliefs
What publication signaled the beginning of the Romantic movement in England?
Lyrical ballads
What is the chronological order of the poets?
Robert Bruns
William Wordsworth
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Willam Blake
Wordsworth
Living in France had brought Wordsworth interest and sympathy towards his life because of the troubles and speech of the common/normal man. These issues were clearly expressed through his works.
Coldridge
October 1772 – 25 July 1834, was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher, and theologian
who was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets with
his friend William Wordsworth.
Alliteration
the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or
closely connected words.
Assonance
the repetition of the sound of a vowel
Consonance
agreement or compatibility between opinions or actions.
Metaphor
a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action
to which it is not literally applicable.
Simile
a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind
Onomatopoeia
the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named
Imagery
visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work.
Trochee
stressed/unstressed - a foot consisting of one long or stressed syllable followed
by one short or unstressed syllable.
Stanza
a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse.
Meter
Meter is the basic rhythmic structure of a line within a work of poetry
Rhyme Scheme
the formal arrangement of rhymes in a stanza or a poem.
Iamb - unstressed/stressed
A metrical foot consisting of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented syllable.
What distinguishes Romanticism from the Enlightenment and Industrial Revolution?
Romanticism is all about Free Will and what you want. we live in a very romantic world because we care about what makes us happy and what we feel. this time period we are more connected with nature and what makes us us. Romanticism gives us this important of enjoying life. while the agent Enlightenment is all about the new ideas and fixing the wrongs and the Industrial Revolution is all about freedom and identity and New Creations.
What characteristics distinguish the second generation of Romantics from the first generation?
The first generation was focused on creating new machines to better and make them evolve. but the second generation is worried about what makes them happy and what they feel.
Why did the Romantics connect to nature so strongly?
They connect with nature because nature is free and everything is connected to nature. Nature is where everything starts and end.
How do certain characteristics, like individualism and rebellion, of the Romantic movement play out? What poems specifically demonstrate these?
For one of the poems men of England that’s Rebellion because it’s going against everything that common men do. Romantic play a role with giving the people right to be able to feel need of change of there daily life. The want there life to be happy.
What publication kicked off the Romantic momvement in English literature?
Lyrical Ballads
What in particular were the Romantics pushing back against?
urbanization and Industrialization
What did the traveller from an antique land see in the desert
two vast and trunkless and legs of stone
What words appear on the pedestal of the colossal wreck of Ozymandias?
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and deapair!
How can the juxtaposition of Oz’s claims and the empty destruction at the end be interpreted?
- The art and language live on beyond all political power
- Time defeats all,no matter how grand we are
The lamb
Willam Blake
trochaic trimeter
Lamb is about innocence and a child
The tyger
Willam Blake
it all about the sins and the evil of the world
The world is too much with us
William Wordsworth
The word is too good for us we don’t deserve it. God created this beautiful world and we destroy it concisely. We are struck not reaching our full potential. Everything we think we own, we don’t. God owns everything.
It is a Beauteous evening, Calm and free
William Wordsworth
It talks about nature
Being a child of God
It talks of all of the pure of God
A Song of Men of England
Trochic trimeter
Percy Shelly
It talks about the poor
to not take the missed treatment
to stand against them
To Autumn
Iambic penter
John Keats
It describes the beauty of the season and everything it brings.
