Final Flashcards
“Oh misery, oh misery!
Oh woe is me! Oh misery!”
"She was with child, and she was mad. Yet often she was sober sad From her exceeding pain. Oh me! Ten thousand times I'd rather That he had died, that cruel father!"
The Thorn by William Wordsworth. About a woman named Martha Ray who, after being abandoned by her lover, became crazy. She was with child at the time of the abandonment and a while after giving birth, the baby went mysteriously missing, causing rumors to speculate around town.
“Why William, on that old grey stone,
Thus for the length of half a day,
Why William, sit you thus alone,
And dream your time away?”
Expostulation and Reply by William Wordsworth. About a boy named Matthew who asks his friend, William, why he is “wasting his time” sitting on the rock.
What is the title of the poem by William Wordsworth that is about an unnamed narrator who tries to convince a little girl that she is part of a family with only five children?
We Are Seven.
The poem Lucy Gray is written by whom? What is it about?
William Wordsworth. It’s about a little girl named Lucy Gray whose parents tell her to go to the town neighboring theirs. Since it is dark outside, she gets lost and ends up falling into a canal, and drowns.
Which Victorian novel corresponds with William Wordsworth’s The Ruined Cottage and The Thorn?
The Forsaken Merman by Matthew Arnold. The themes correspond with Wordsworth’s poems because it deals with grief, sorrow, disillusionment, and nature.
Who wrote The Cry of the Children and which Romantic poems correspond with it?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning. William Blake’s Chimney Sweeper and Holy Thursday correspond with her poem. Holy Thursday attacks religion and society, while Chimney Sweeper also has a child who is looking forward to death.
“How much do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnets from the Portuguese. Written for her husband, Robert Browning.
Which poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson is about a young woman–a character derived from Shakespeare’s play Measure for Measure–who spends all her time in her cottage, crying and wishing for her lover to come back home?
Mariana.
“It little profits that an idle king,
By this still hearth, among these barren crags,
Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dole…”
Ulysses by Alfred Lord Tennyson
Which Victorian poems correspond with Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s “The Lotos Eaters”?
Samuel Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” and William Wordsworth’s “We Are Seven”.
William Wordsworth’s The Ruined Cottage and The Thorn correspond with Matthew Arnold’s The Forsaken Merman. Which Victorian poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson also corresponds with these three poems?
Mariana
“The sea is calm tonight.
The tide is full, the moon lies fair
Upon the straits–on the French coast the light
Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand,
Glimmering and vast.”
Which Victorian poet wrote this poem and what is the title of the poem? Which Romantic poem corresponds with it?
Matthew Arnold wrote this poem, titled “Dover Beach.” It corresponds with William Blake’s “Holy Thursday.”
Yet another Victorian poem corresponds with Mariana, The Thorn, The Ruined Cottage, and the Forsaken Merman. Which poem is it and who wrote it?
The Blessed Damozel by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
Who wrote Goblin Market?
Christina Rossetti
What was Thomas Hardy’s “The Son’s Veto” about?
About a woman named Sophy whose son, Randolph, forbids her to marry the man she loves due to his own selfish reasons; she dies a lonely death at the end of the story. Hardy used this as a way to describe the typical lifestyle of the Victorian Era.
