Romantic Age

Question 1

Period of romanticism

Answer 1

1760-1837

Question 2

American revolution who when what

Answer 2

George III and lord north
Heavy taxation
Massacre 1770
1773 Boston tea party
4 July 1776 American independence
1779 George Washington-> democracy

Question 3

When independence America ?

Answer 3

4 July 1776

Question 4

Democracy is founded on what in America ?

Answer 4

All man are created equal -> life liberty and happiness

Question 5

French Revolution when why who

Answer 5

Attack the absolute monarchy
1789-1799
1799 Napoleone , reign of Napoleone last 22 years until congress of viene
Trafalgar Square Nelson destroyed napoleon fleet

Question 6

Industrial revolution

Answer 6

1750
Invention where
Spinnin Jenny
James watt’s steam engine
Transport and street improved
Terrible condition

Question 7

Beauty

Answer 7

Pleasing to the senses
Small
Predictable
Bright
Easy to control
Graceful
Focus on the object

Question 8

Sublime

Answer 8

Strong emotion and natural phenomena
Terror fear but also respect
Attraction but fear
Environment mirror of the feelings
Fear of pain
Focus on self

Question 9

Romantic poem 1 generation

Answer 9

William Blake
William Wordsworth
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Question 10

Poets 2 generation

Answer 10

George Gordon lord Byron
Percy Shelly
John Keats

Question 11

Thomas gray

Answer 11

Pre romantic
Elegy written in a country churchyard
At night so -> sublime setting
Meaning of life and death
It doesn’t metter if you’re rich or poor
Neoclassicism form and a romantic content

Question 12

William Blake

Answer 12

The chimney sweeper
18 century
From song of innocence

Question 13

William Wordsworth

Answer 13

My heart leaps up 1802
Daffodils 1802
The prelude 1850

Question 14

How his relationship with nature changes ? William Wordsworth

Answer 14

At first he is fascinated by beauty and pantheism
Then beauty for healing , he search sublime
In the prelude he fears it because he recognize its power

Question 15

Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 1834 influenced by what

Answer 15

Influenced by French Revolution

Question 16

Samuel Taylor Coleridge settle where

Answer 16

Lake District

Question 17

The rime of the ancient mariner age

Answer 17

1798

Question 18

The rime of the ancient mariner setting

Answer 18

Wedding hall -> heartily setting
Story within the story -> open ocean (also can see as our subconscious)

Question 19

Rhyme of the ancient mariner symbols

Answer 19

Weather and colors
Death of albatross
Planets -> moon sun and stars moon as the master the ocean as the slave as the moon iptnotize the mariners

Question 20

Rime of the ancient mariner temes

Answer 20

Pride
Overreached
Sublime
Imagination - Wordsworth imagination is more childish while Coleridge triggered by substances
Isolation
Supernatural

Question 21

Kubla khan

Answer 21

Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1798

Question 22

Kuala khan themes

Answer 22

Sublime
Imagination
Poet is god
Drugs

Question 23

Differenze 1 gen poeti

Answer 23

English reality
Simple and spontaneous language
Concern with humble people
Nature as a healing power vs sublime

Question 24

Differenze 2 gen poeti

Answer 24

Mediterranean country
Died young
Language elaborate and deep
Concern with the classical world
Nature concerned with immortality like they are envy of it

Question 25

George Gordon -lord Byron

Answer 25

Nobil origin Tour of Spain Portugal Malta Alabama Greece Middle East Married with Annabella Milbanke Incestuos relationship with his Hal sister Augusta -> he had to leave England

Question 26

Byronic hero

Answer 26

Moody restless mysterious romantic rebel Hides sockets in the past Individualism Rejected conventional moral rules of society Outsider isolated but attractive at the same time Nobile but wild and rough at manners Looks hard but handsome Great sensibility to nature and beauty Bored of the excesses of the world Woman cannot resist him

Question 27

Byronic’s views of nature

Answer 27

Source of consolation and joy It has no message Sublime : the wildest and most exotic natural landscapes reflect poet’s mood and feelings

Question 28

So we’ll go no more

Answer 28

George gordon Byronic hero In Venice Theme are love , betrayal, sublime Byronic hero Aging and fear of death

Question 29

Percy Bysshe Shelly 1792 1822

Answer 29

Born in horsham but he travelled in Europe Influential family father member of parliament and mother landowner Etan college but expelled Non conformist to society Married Harriet Westbrook but he fall in love with Mary Godwin Wife committed suicide France and Switzerland to marry with Mary Daughter elena Who died young 1821 Poem for the death of Keats They moved in lerci Died for drowning in a tempest or suicide

Question 30

Ozymandias

Answer 30

1818 Transcendent Relationship between men art and nature Power of nature Art

Question 31

John Keats

Answer 31

1759 1821 born in London Doomed Love story with Fanny Browne bc he was poor and in bad healt so her family didn’t want him Died of tuberculosis

Question 32

Keats beauty

Answer 32

Imagination- physical beauty and negative capability

Question 33

Bright star setting

Answer 33

Speaker first person At night Sudden shift of setting

Question 34

Bright star symbol

Answer 34

Star Transciense Sympathy

Question 35

Bright star themes

Answer 35

Love Loyalty Isolation Time Nature -> pantheism at beginning at the end ripening