Romantic Period Flashcards
What was a major factor in the communication revolution in England?
Steam
Who’s policy of laissez faire advocated the role of no inference in business by government?
Adam Smith
What does Kant’s philosophy of transcendentalism believe?
God is said to be both within nature and mankind and is known as a World Spirit
What is God known as in transcendentalism?
The World Spirit
What evaluates the goodness or badness of an action based on its production of happiness?
Utilitarianism
Christians would agree with the romantics on what?
> Human reason has limitations
Institution has some validity
The individual has value
Christians and Romantics differ in what belief?
Their belief of God
What are the different beliefs that Christians and Romantics hold on their concept of God?
> Christians recognize the deity of an eternal, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient God
> Romantic transcendentalist consider God to be a World Spirit coexisting within His creation, both mankind and nature
What is the common element in all areas of romantic thinking?
Freedom from limits
Who believed that human misery was caused not by sin but by society?
Rousseau
What are the characteristics of romantic poetry?
> The poet himself as the primary subject
A highly individual perspective
An awe inspiring atmosphere
The publication of what launched the second great era of English song?
“Lyrical Ballads”
Blake’s “London” condemns what institutions of society?
> Religion
Government
Family
In “London” Blake associated what with marriage by using the unexpected word hearse?
Death and mourning, rather than joy and life
According to Blake what constitutes mans salvation?
Obeying ones imagination and feelings
In his promotion of the idea that mankind is enslaved, who is Blake espousing?
The French philosopher Rousseau
In his work “The Garden of Love” why is it ironic that Blake included a graveyard?
The garden is supposedly dedicated to love but it produces death
What did Blake’s defiance of Gods law bring?
Only his misery
Who were the authors of “Lyrical Ballads”?
William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
What is Wordsworth credited nature as being?
The major formative influence on his writing
What is the most poetic achievement of British romanticism?
“The Prelude”
What does Wordsworth use to describe the daffodils in “I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud”?
A simile of stars
What is Wordsworth’s definition of the poetic process?
The depiction of poetry is “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings”
What did Wordsworth’s definition of he poetic process reflect about that romantics?
Their dislike of control
In “I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud” what and why did the poet redirect the attention to himself?
Th theme/focus because it was a contribution to the literary revolution instigated by the romantics
Accorded to Sonnet 1, what is the key difference between child and adult?
The child communes with nature directly
According to he speaker in “The World is too Much With Us” what is exchanged?
Materialistic craving exchanged for our hearts
Describe Lucy’s identity from “The Lucy Poems.”
Has never been established and is probably fictional
According to Coleridge what is important about the end of the poem?
The immediate end of poetry is pleasure and the ultimate end is truth
In The Rime of the Ancient Mariner what does the albatross bring?
The directional change of south to north is the ships course
What are associated with the Rime of the Ancient Mariner?
Stillness
Heat
Silence
How did the sailor punish the mariner?
Hanging the dead albatross around his neck
Why did the mariner shoot the albatross?
He shot it without any provocation and offers no motive or justification
Who are the two crew members of the spectre ship?
Death and Life-In-Death
What does Coleridge differ from Wordsworth?
His view of poetic diction
Who did Charles Lamb collaborate with to do what?
Mary Lamb on a children’s version of Shakespeare’s work
What is the primary mood of Lambs essay?
Nostalgic daydreaming
What name does Lamb decide to write under so he wouldn’t embarrass his brother, an employee of the South Sea House?
Elia
Who admired Lambs writing and why?
Wordsworth because he saw lamb as a kindred spirit and his essays a literary world similar to his own
What is the major theme of “Old China”?
The superiority of the old days of youth and poverty
What was inspired by the historical event of the Peterloo massacre?
English in 1819
Why is William good wins position against matrimony ironic?
Because of his displeasure when his own daughter ran off with Shelley
What is Shelley’s elegy on the death of Keats?
Adonais
“Ozymandis” has what absurdities?
> Legs which support nothing
An empire which is now only desert
The highest part of the statue is now the lowest
What is the theme and most famous rhetorical question in English literature for “Ode to the West Wind”?
If winter comes, can spring be far behind?
What does Section IV of “Ode to the West Wind” reveal?
Shelleys agreement with the romantic belief in the superiority of childhood innocence and communion with nature
What was John Keats first unquestionable great poem?
“On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer”
In “On First Looking into Chapman Homer” what is the controlling imagery?
Explorers
I’n “The Eve of St. Agnes” who is the one who helps Porphyro carry out his plan?
Angela
In “The Eve of St. Agnes” what brings Madeline and Porphyro back to reality?
The storm
What happens to Keat and his brother?
They both eventually die of tuberculosis
What is Utilitarianism?
the goodness or badness of an action based on its production of happiness
What does Adam Smiths policy on Laissez Faire say?
Advocated the role of No interference in business by government
What is the Byronic Hero characterized as?
Arrogance, anguish, sullenness, solitude, self-will and rebellion
What was the mock heroic work that emphasized Byron’s disillusionment with his own lifestyle?
Don Juan
In his work “On This Day” the lines “then look around, and choose thy ground, /and take thy rest uses what and how?
The poetic device caesuras as the speaker attempts to achieve a sense of finality and resignation
In “She Walks in Beauty” what poetic device is used and why?
Simile - to govern the imagery in stanza 1
In “She Walks in Beauty” the lyric is a compliment to who?
The women whose physical beauty is equaled by and indeed an expression of her beauty of soul
Why was “Childe Herolds Pilgrimage” written?
As a result of Byron’s travel to the Mediterranean from 1809-111
What was English 1819 inspired by?
the historical event of the Peterloo massacre
