Romantic Poems

Question 1

The Lamb: What questions does the speaker ask in the first stanza?

Answer 1

Asks lamb who it’s maker was, who fed and clothed it and who gave it its voice

Question 2

The Lamb: What answer does he give in the second?

Answer 2

God made the lamb

Question 3

The Lamb: How does the speaker identify himself in the second stanza?

Answer 3

As a child and a Christian

Question 4

The Lamb: What two things does the lamb symbolize?

Answer 4

Purity and Innocence

Question 5

The Lamb: What is the poet’s message or central idea?

Answer 5

The kindness of the creator

Question 6

The Tiger: What is the central image of the tiger?

Answer 6

Power

Question 7

The Tiger: In lines 17-18 what is the poet suggesting that they are overcome with?

Answer 7

Sadness

Question 8

The Tiger: What is the speaker’s attitude in this poem?

Answer 8

Awe and wonderment

Question 9

The Tiger: What does line 2 suggest?

Answer 9

Chaos and confusion in living

Question 10

The Tiger: What is the answer to the central question of the poem?

Answer 10

God created the tiger

Question 11

The Tiger: Is it the same as that given in “The Lamb”?

Answer 11

Yes, God created all things

Question 12

The Tiger: What does the use of the tiger as a symbol of experience suggest about Blake’s view of that world?

Answer 12

To become closer to God, we must understand opposites

Question 13

To a Mouse: What does Burns say about how humans and animals are alike?

Answer 13

Both are vulnerable to disaster

Question 14

To a Mouse: What is the poet’s attitude toward the mouse?

Answer 14

One of pity

Question 15

To a Mouse: For what reason does the speaker apologize to the mouse (be specific)?

Answer 15

Apologizes to mouse for frightening it and plowing over house

Question 16

To a Mouse: Why does the speaker say that, compared with him, the mouse is blessed?

Answer 16

Mouse’s problem is one it must deal with now, speaker has both past misfortunes and future problems to worry about

Question 17

To a Mouse: What does the sentiment in lines 13-14 suggests about the speaker’s own moral code?

Answer 17

Speaker believes the end justifies the means

Question 18

To a Mouse: What famous line in the poem carries the poem’s theme? How would you state this theme in your own words?

Answer 18

The best laid schemes o’mice an’ men” or you cannot always count on things working out the way you expect them to.

Question 19

To a Louse: What is the central object of the poet’s scorn?

Answer 19

Vanity and conceit

Question 20

To a Louse: What does the louse symbolize?

Answer 20

Human flaws

Question 21

Tintern Abbey: What does the poet hope to gain from his second visit to the valley?

Answer 21

To reinforce his sense of solace that nature provides

Question 22

Tintern Abbey: What does he hope his sister will gain?

Answer 22

The same feelings for nature

Question 23

Tintern Abbey: At what time of year does the poet make his second visit to the area near Tintern Abbey?

Answer 23

Summer

Question 24

Tintern Abbey: What is “another gift” in line 35?

Answer 24

The ability nature has to ease our burdened minds

Question 25

Tintern Abbey: What is the predominant theme?

Answer 25

Uplifting power of nature

Question 26

Tintern Abbey: How does Wordsworth describe his second visit compared to his first?

Answer 26

More reflective

Question 27

Tintern Abbey: Wordsworth image “of some hermit’s cave, where by his fire / The hermit sits alone” reflects the Romantic’s rejection of what?

Answer 27

Society

Question 28

World Too Much: This is what type of poem?

Answer 28

A sonnet

Question 29

World Too Much: What is the main subject in this poem?

Answer 29

Frenzied quest of wealth

Question 30

World Too Much: What does the poet say “we” have given away?

Answer 30

We have given away our hearts, or our feelings for the natural world

Question 31

World Too Much: What aspect of this poem links it with the literature of the 18th century and sets it apart from Romantic poetry in general?

Answer 31

Focus on the social and the general

Question 32

World Too Much: Which elements link it with the age of Romanticism?

Answer 32

Reference to personal emotions

Question 33

World Too Much: How does, Wordsworth demonstrates his example of the Romantic belief at the end of the poem?

Answer 33

The transforming power of the mind