Romantic Literature Flashcards
The Chimney Sweeper
William Blake
Young boys in child labor
Tintern Abbey
William Wordsworth
Prose
Person revisits childhood memories and reflects
To a mouse, to a louse
Robert Burns
“The best laid schemes o’ Mice and Men, often go awry”
Scottish diction
The little boy lost/found
The Tyger
William Blake
Affair with Mary Shelley’s sister
Handsome
Lord Byron
Ozymandias
Percy Shelley
Abandon statue in desert
“King of Kings: look on my words, ye Mighty, and despair”
Don Juan
She Walks in Beauty
When We Two Parted
Lord Byron
Poetry - romantic, relationship related
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Coleridge
Man kills albatross, suffers greatly, shipmates killed, encounters Death, Life in Death, zombies, Mary, angels, saved by Pilot, must live to tell his tale for eternity, about forgiveness
“Water water everywhere but not a drop to drink. Water water everywhere an all the boards did shrink”
Ode to a Grecian Urn
John Keats
Truth is beauty, urn stands the test of time, people painted on are mortals but will last in that moment for eternity, song = art, trees = nature, bold lovers = fertility, platonic Ideal and the essence of things
Kubla Khan
Coleridge
Drug dream, opium addiction
Porlock
An interruption; how Coleridge forgot the rest of his dream when writing Kubla Khan
Ode
To be sung
Lyrical poem
Apostrophe
Narrator talking to inanimate object
Synesthesia
Sensual imagery
