Poet Test Flashcards
“So Well Go No More A-Roving”
Coleridge
Theme:the spirit endures while the body weakens
The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner
Wordsworth
“Apostrophe To The Ocean”
Coleridge
Theme: nature is an awesome and powerful force beyond mans control.
“My Heart Leaps Up when I Behold”
Wordsworth
Theme: nature is a pleasing constant thought life.
“She Walks In Beauty”
Coleridge
Theme: the beauty of a women may reflect her goodness.
“Ozymandias”
Shelly
Theme: the glory of kings passes away.
“The World is To Much With Us”
Wordsworth
Theme: people should be more in tune with nature.
“When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be”
Keats
Theme: poet laments dying before his time.
“To A Skylark”
Shelly
Theme: our deeds and thoughts, though sometimes go unseen, do not go unnoticed.
“A Dirge”
Shelly
Theme: nature laments the suffering of the world.
“The Solitary Reaper”
Wordsworth
Theme: the common place and ordinary can take on a very special significance.
“Bright Star, Would I Were Steadfast As Thou Art”
Keats
Theme: the poet desires to love and live forever.
“It Is A Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free”
Wordsworth
Theme: God is with us wherever we are.
From Dan Juan
Coleridge
Theme: youth is to soon to pass, live those year sensibly.
“Ode on a Grecian Urn”
Keats
Theme: the ideal world depicts in art does not suffer and age as the real world does.
“Dover Beach”
Matthew Arnold
“Ode To The West Wind”
Shelly
Theme: the wind brings hope.
“The Man He Killed”
Thomas Hardy
Theme: men who might well be friends in peace become killers in war.
“To–”
Shelly
Theme: the memory of the beloved outlasts the physical presence.
“God’s Grandeur”
Gerard Manley Hopkins
“On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer”
Keats
Theme: literature has the power to enthrall.
“The Lady of Shalott”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
“How Do I Love Thee”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“Crossing the Bar”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
